IRS Likely To Feel Strain Of Layoffs Now Filing Season's Over
The IRS's filing season ran relatively smoothly with minimal disruptions to customer service and taxpayer assistance, but the impending loss of a quarter of the agency's employees is already wearing on its workforce and will likely erode customer service, refund processing and institutional knowledge, experts say.
Dem Reps. Urge Court To Block IRS-ICE Info-Sharing Pact
House Democrats and two organizations that help immigrants prepare tax returns urged a D.C. federal court to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing with immigration enforcement agencies the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally.
Tax Breaks For Offshore Production Could Thwart Tariffs' Goal
President Donald Trump has said that his wide-ranging tariffs will jump-start domestic industry and production, but an international tax policy created under the 2017 federal overhaul may undermine the goal of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.
IRS Likely To Feel Strain Of Layoffs Now Filing Season's Over
The IRS's filing season ran relatively smoothly with minimal disruptions to customer service and taxpayer assistance, but the impending loss of a quarter of the agency's employees is already wearing on its workforce and will likely erode customer service, refund processing and institutional knowledge, experts say.
Dem Reps. Urge Court To Block IRS-ICE Info-Sharing Pact
House Democrats and two organizations that help immigrants prepare tax returns urged a D.C. federal court to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing with immigration enforcement agencies the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally.
Tax Breaks For Offshore Production Could Thwart Tariffs' Goal
President Donald Trump has said that his wide-ranging tariffs will jump-start domestic industry and production, but an international tax policy created under the 2017 federal overhaul may undermine the goal of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.
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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Wednesday that it expanded its tax, employee benefits and trusts and estates practice with a new partner most recently with Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
A boutique Connecticut consumer protection law firm cannot block the IRS from collecting 2022 and 2023 payroll taxes while the firm challenges the government's alleged failure to process CARES Act payroll cred... (more story)
Barclay Damon LLP is continuing the momentum its headcount growth made in 2024, announcing Tuesday that it has hired an employee benefits attorney from Morrison Cohen LLP in New York City.
The former head of Sidley Austin LLP's U.K. tax practice has joined Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's London office, where he will advise on U.K. and international tax structuring, the firm announced.
Baker McKenzie has hired a former deputy assistant secretary at the Treasury Department to work on international tax matters as a partner in the firm's office in Washington, D.C.
Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares the... (more story)
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers unveiled legislation Wednesday that they said would expand access to paid family leave by incentivizing states to establish their own programs and facilitating the exchang... (more story)
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NJ Panel Declines To Revive Tobacco Co.'s Tax Refund Claim
A tobacco company cannot revive its claim for a tax refund, a New Jersey appeals court found, agreeing with the state's tax court that 2020 amendments to a regulation limiting a royalty add-back deduction must... (more story)
MTC Digital Work Group Backs Tax Pact's Bundling Rules
The Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board's model for how to tax products sold in a bundle generally works well and more states should consider it, a Multistate Tax Commission work group studying how to harmon... (more story)
NY Court Upholds PL 86-272 Regulations, Bars Retroactivity
A New York rule allowing state taxation of nonsolicitation business activities over the internet isn't barred by a federal law providing limited protections against state income tax, but the rule cannot apply ... (more story)
MTC Group To Weigh Updating Airline, Broadcaster Tax Rules
A Multistate Tax Commission committee gave the green light Tuesday for a work group to consider ways to revise the intergovernmental agency's decades-old sourcing regulations for airlines and broadcasting comp... (more story)
Hochul, Legislators Agree On Budget With Small-Biz Tax Cuts
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and lawmakers agreed on a budget plan with payroll mobility tax relief for small businesses and a $1 billion tax cut for middle- and low-income residents, the governor said, despite ... (more story)
Court Urged To Reconsider Jurisdiction In Tribal Tariff Row
Blackfeet Nation members are asking a Montana federal judge to reconsider an order to transfer their challenge against President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports from Canada and abroad to the U.S. Court of In... (more story)
Reds, Bengals Stadiums' Land Tax Upheld By Ohio Board
The land on which the stadiums for the Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati Reds reside are subject to property tax, but parking facilities near the sports complexes are tax-exempt because they are used for publi... (more story)
NY Tax Talk: Sourcing, Retroactivity, Information Services
Attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland examine recent decisions by New York’s Tax Appeals Tribunal, Division of Taxation and Court of Appeals on location sourcing of broker-dealer receipts, a case of first impressi... (more story)
Feds Say Tariff Fight Belongs In International Trade Court
The Trump administration wants to litigate a challenge to its tariffs in a federal trade court, not the D.C. district court, arguing that the U.S. Court of International Trade is the only venue with jurisdicti... (more story)
A tobacco company cannot revive its claim for a tax refund, a New Jersey appeals court found, agreeing with the state's tax court that 2020 amendments to a regulation limiting a royalty add-back deduction must... (more story)
The Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board's model for how to tax products sold in a bundle generally works well and more states should consider it, a Multistate Tax Commission work group studying how to harmon... (more story)
A New York rule allowing state taxation of nonsolicitation business activities over the internet isn't barred by a federal law providing limited protections against state income tax, but the rule cannot apply ... (more story)
A Multistate Tax Commission committee gave the green light Tuesday for a work group to consider ways to revise the intergovernmental agency's decades-old sourcing regulations for airlines and broadcasting comp... (more story)
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and lawmakers agreed on a budget plan with payroll mobility tax relief for small businesses and a $1 billion tax cut for middle- and low-income residents, the governor said, despite ... (more story)
Blackfeet Nation members are asking a Montana federal judge to reconsider an order to transfer their challenge against President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports from Canada and abroad to the U.S. Court of In... (more story)
The land on which the stadiums for the Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati Reds reside are subject to property tax, but parking facilities near the sports complexes are tax-exempt because they are used for publi... (more story)
Attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland examine recent decisions by New York’s Tax Appeals Tribunal, Division of Taxation and Court of Appeals on location sourcing of broker-dealer receipts, a case of first impressi... (more story)
The Trump administration wants to litigate a challenge to its tariffs in a federal trade court, not the D.C. district court, arguing that the U.S. Court of International Trade is the only venue with jurisdicti... (more story)
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Morgan Lewis Expands Tax Practice With Milbank Hire
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP added a former Milbank special counsel as a tax partner based in the firm's London office.
Dentist Fights HMRC Over Alleged Tax Avoidance
A dentist's firm urged an appeals court on Wednesday to find that it had not engaged in tax avoidance by making loan payments to its owner through a trust, saying the payments had no connection to its owner's ... (more story)
HMRC Should Use AI To Boost Services, Report Says
HM Revenue & Customs is still not doing enough to improve its services and should prepare to use artificial intelligence to enhance customer service for U.K. taxpayers and increase its productivity, acco... (more story)
Immigration Ruling No Help To Liberty Global, 10th Circ. Told
Liberty Global cannot use a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on interpreting ambiguous law in an immigration case to support the company's interpretation of law in its $248 million foreign tax credit claim, the feder... (more story)
Bessent Says EU Must Kill Digital Taxes For US Trade Deal
The U.S. government wants European countries to repeal digital service taxes before the European Union moves forward with trade negotiations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday.
South Korea Asks IMF To Aid Global Response To US Tariffs
As President Donald Trump continues to deploy tariffs, South Korea's deputy prime minister said that the International Monetary Fund should lean into its role as a "trusted policy adviser" to help address worl... (more story)
EU Top Court OKs Polish Property Tax Break For Railway
The Polish government may grant a property tax exemption to a private railway owner to make part of the railway available to carriers without breaking European Union law on state aid, the EU's top court ruled Tuesday.
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP added a former Milbank special counsel as a tax partner based in the firm's London office.
A dentist's firm urged an appeals court on Wednesday to find that it had not engaged in tax avoidance by making loan payments to its owner through a trust, saying the payments had no connection to its owner's ... (more story)
HM Revenue & Customs is still not doing enough to improve its services and should prepare to use artificial intelligence to enhance customer service for U.K. taxpayers and increase its productivity, acco... (more story)
Liberty Global cannot use a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on interpreting ambiguous law in an immigration case to support the company's interpretation of law in its $248 million foreign tax credit claim, the feder... (more story)
The U.S. government wants European countries to repeal digital service taxes before the European Union moves forward with trade negotiations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday.
As President Donald Trump continues to deploy tariffs, South Korea's deputy prime minister said that the International Monetary Fund should lean into its role as a "trusted policy adviser" to help address worl... (more story)
The Polish government may grant a property tax exemption to a private railway owner to make part of the railway available to carriers without breaking European Union law on state aid, the EU's top court ruled Tuesday.