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July 24, 2026
Recently proposed U.S. Department of Labor regulations that would encourage e-delivery of employee health plan documents are winning plaudits from both sides of the benefits bar for potentially streamlining the process and augmenting online transparency. Here are three things to know about the DOL's proposal.
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July 24, 2026
The U.K. government said Friday that there is no change in tariffs following the U.S. administration's decision this week to impose widespread duties after the expiration of a temporary global duty regime, as the trade deal allowing 10% tariffs between the two countries still holds.
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July 23, 2026
The casual dining chain TGI Friday's Inc. on Thursday won approval of its Chapter 11 liquidation plan to offload its remaining assets and eventually distribute them through a trust, after creditors voted overwhelmingly in favor of the plan.
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July 23, 2026
Royalty payments accrued in a family trust for the grandchildren of the author of the "Thomas the Tank Engine" books should be considered capital for trust law purposes instead of income, a London court found, siding with the trustees.
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July 23, 2026
Tariffs covering most imports into the U.S. at 10% and 12.5% will take effect Friday as President Donald Trump's temporary global duty expires, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced Thursday.
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July 23, 2026
A customer of Kate Hudson's activewear business Fabletics has dropped her claim for refunds of global tariffs she alleged the actress's company passed on to customers before the U.S. Supreme Court found them illegal.
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July 23, 2026
A London court declined to toss a taxpayer's challenge to a capital gains tax bill on a £1.6 million ($2.1 million) payout he made before liquidating his company, while dismissing his claims of double taxation and other allegations.
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July 22, 2026
The founder of a Colorado coffee equipment provider induced a California coffee equipment manufacturer and its president to acquire the company by hiding its true tax designation on a loan application, the companies and the president allege in a complaint in Colorado state court.
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July 22, 2026
An intermediate appellate court in Massachusetts on Wednesday affirmed the permanent revocation of lottery sales licenses for two convenience store owners who allegedly played significant roles in a scheme to buy winning lottery tickets from customers seeking to avoid taxes or other obligations.
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July 22, 2026
A Canadian man living in the United States should remain on the hook for more than $700,000 in penalties for failing to report foreign bank accounts, the U.S. government told a Washington federal court, arguing he willfully disregarded disclosure requirements.
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July 22, 2026
Members of Congress on Wednesday unveiled a bipartisan bill to legalize, regulate and tax the manufacture and sale of hemp-derived cannabinoid products, while a federal ban on virtually all consumable hemp products is still due to take effect in less than four months.
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July 22, 2026
Illinois' new tax on cryptocurrency, the first in the nation, discriminates against those who trade in crypto and is illegal, a trade group argued in a complaint in a state court.
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July 22, 2026
Two men have been indicted in Pennsylvania on allegations that they participated in a multistate conspiracy to bilk the government out of $52.7 million in a COVID-19-related false tax return scheme, according to federal prosecutors.
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July 22, 2026
President Donald Trump's temporary global tariff is lawfully authorized under a statute allowing the executive branch to address serious balance-of-payment deficits, a term that can easily be construed to include the economic conditions referenced in the implementing order, the government told the Federal Circuit.
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July 22, 2026
The Irish government will propose €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) in new tax cuts for workers in its €8.5 billion budget for next year, the country's Department of Finance said Wednesday.
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July 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits subagency transmitted a proposal affecting a popular exemption to strict prohibitions on many types of transactions involving federally regulated benefit plans to a White House office for review, teeing up the regulation for release.
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July 22, 2026
The number of people who lost or renounced their U.S. citizenship totaled nearly 1,800 in the second quarter of 2026 as logged by the U.S. Treasury Department, up 68.5% year-over-year and 21.8% from the previous quarter, the IRS said Wednesday.
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July 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm unveiled a proposal Wednesday that would provide more opportunities for electronic delivery of employer-provided health plans' mandatory disclosures.
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July 21, 2026
A California federal judge wrongly denied H&R Block's bid to make two filers arbitrate allegations that it unlawfully shared private data with Meta and Google, the tax preparation company told the Ninth Circuit, disputing the district court's finding that an underlying arbitration agreement is too unfair.
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July 21, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service is trying to disallow a partnership donor's $19.1 million charitable deduction for a Georgia conservation easement with limited expert testimony, the partnership told the U.S. Tax Court, arguing that approach violates the rules governing valuation cases.
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July 21, 2026
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., proposed legislation Tuesday that would create guardrails on artificial intelligence and impose disclosure requirements on data centers' demands on power and water infrastructure and effects on the environment.
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July 21, 2026
Pharmaceutical giant Amgen has agreed to pay $74 million to resolve an investor class action alleging it hid a $10.7 billion tax bill from shareholders, according to an agreement filed in New York federal court.
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July 21, 2026
Rapid adoption of artificial intelligence could grow U.S. federal tax revenues by up to $216 billion in 2030, yet that figure would be twice as large if income gains weren't skewed toward capital instead of labor, the Yale Budget Lab said.
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July 21, 2026
A proposed class action looking to force Nintendo to reimburse customers for increased costs that were explicitly tied to President Donald Trump's now struck-down tariff regime should be handled in arbitration or tossed entirely, the company told a Seattle federal court.
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July 21, 2026
A Minnesota childcare center that missed a filing deadline related to a property tax exemption for educational institutions should not have been allowed to appeal the matter to the state tax court, a county told the state Supreme Court, urging it to review the case.