Federal

  • June 10, 2025

    Fund Manager, Wife Can't Claim $1.9M Refund, Judge Rules

    A Florida investment fund manager and his wife are not entitled to a $1.9 million income tax refund resulting from a depreciation deduction related to a private jet because the entity that purchased the jet was not operating as a business, a federal judge ruled.

  • June 10, 2025

    Ayahuasca Church Brings Religious Use Case To DC Circ.

    An Iowa church that seeks to use a psychedelic drug in its rites filed a petition Monday with the D.C. Circuit seeking to compel federal drug enforcers to process an application for a religious exemption to the Controlled Substances Act, which has been pending for over six years.

  • June 10, 2025

    Judge Denies Gov't Bid To Toss Law Firm's Payroll Tax Suit

    The U.S. government cannot throw out a boutique law firm's suit that seeks a refund of $282,000 in pandemic-era worker retention credits and a pause on payroll tax enforcement, a Connecticut federal judge ruled Tuesday.

  • June 10, 2025

    Ex-Conn. Attorney Sues AG Bondi To Restore Gun Rights

    A Connecticut attorney who served prison time for a tax offense has sued federal and state officials to demand the restoration of his right to possess firearms and ammunition, arguing that the prohibition on that right is unconstitutional as applied to him.

  • June 10, 2025

    Tax Chiefs Say Flagging Oddities Could Reduce ID Crimes

    Flagging suspicious behaviors, like bank accounts receiving multiple tax refund deposits in a matter of days, could help reduce identity-based crimes, a public-private partnership with top tax officials from five countries including the U.S. reported Tuesday.

  • June 10, 2025

    Holland & Knight Continues Tax Team Growth In Philadelphia

    Holland & Knight LLP is continuing the expansion of its tax practice in the Philadelphia office with the addition of an attorney who moved her practice from Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry, the second lawyer to join from the firm in the last month.

  • June 10, 2025

    Flagging Fintech Could Help Stop Tax Crimes, Tax Chiefs Say

    Governments could help mitigate money laundering and tax evasion by flagging fintech firms with services nested within traditional banks, with virtual assets used for anonymity or with fiat currency conversion services, top tax officials from five countries including the U.S. said Tuesday.

  • June 10, 2025

    Taxpayer Advocacy Panel Sets 6 July Committee Meetings

    Six Taxpayer Advocacy Panel committees will meet in July to discuss the Internal Revenue Service's customer service, according to notices released Tuesday.

  • June 09, 2025

    States Warned Of Budget Bill's Push To Broaden PL 86-272

    States and businesses should closely watch a provision in the budget reconciliation bill H.R. 1, or the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, that would expand the protections of a federal law that provides limited state income tax provisions for businesses, state tax professionals said Monday.

  • June 09, 2025

    Tax Court Backs Penalties In $24M Georgia Easement Feud

    An Internal Revenue Service agent properly followed the procedure to secure timely supervisory approval to impose penalties against a partnership for incorrectly claiming a $24 million charitable tax deduction on its Georgia conservation easement donation, the U.S. Tax Court said Monday.

  • June 09, 2025

    CEOs Back Trump's Tax-Deferred Child Investment Accounts

    The CEOs of several large corporations, including Dell Technologies, Uber and Goldman Sachs, pledged to contribute millions of dollars to tax-advantaged brokerage accounts for newborns that would be established under the House-passed budget bill, President Donald Trump announced at the White House on Monday.

  • June 09, 2025

    Russian Postdoc's Income Not Tax Exempt, Tax Court Says

    A Russian permanent resident who was a postdoctoral laboratory worker at the University of South Carolina cannot escape federal taxes on her income by claiming it was a grant and thus exempt under the U.S.-Russia tax treaty, the U.S. Tax Court said Monday.

  • June 09, 2025

    Madigan Denied Acquittal, New Trial Ahead Of Sentencing

    An Illinois federal judge on Monday denied former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's bid for acquittal or a new trial, clearing the way for him to be sentenced for bribery, wire fraud and conspiracy later this week.

  • June 09, 2025

    Va. Woman's Overpayment Already Refunded, Tax Court Says

    The Internal Revenue Service has already fully paid back the almost $90,000 it owes a Virginia woman to satisfy an overpayment determination, the U.S. Tax Court said Monday, dismissing a motion asking the court to enforce the determination.

  • June 09, 2025

    Businesses Warn Fed. Circ. Against Pausing Block On Tariffs

    Thousands of businesses will suffer "irreparable harm" if the Federal Circuit halts the U.S. Court of International Trade's order that struck down President Donald Trump's global tariffs, a wine importer told the appellate court, urging against a long-term pause.

  • June 09, 2025

    US Opposes Ex-Tech CEO's Bid For Unrestricted Travel

    Granting a former Florida tech CEO's request for unrestricted business travel during his probation would violate the conditions of his early prison release after he pled guilty to tax evasion, the U.S. told a federal court, urging it to reject his bid.

  • June 09, 2025

    Justices Urged To Keep Pause On 'Breakneck' Gov't Overhaul

    The U.S. Supreme Court should leave in place a California federal judge's order barring implementation of layoffs and reorganizations at various federal departments and agencies, several unions and nonprofits argued Monday, claiming a decision allowing the changes would irreversibly harm the federal government and render Congress and the judiciary powerless.

  • June 09, 2025

    Taxpayer Advocacy Panel Joint Committee Sets July Meeting

    The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel's Joint Committee will meet July 24 to discuss customer service, it announced Monday.

  • June 09, 2025

    Weekly Internal Revenue Bulletin

    The Internal Revenue Service's weekly bulletin included an updated list of automatic procedures for taxpayer-initiated changes to their accounting methods.

  • June 06, 2025

    The Tax Angle: IRS Funding, Budget Markup, Insurance Woes

    From a look at upcoming Senate hearings on President Donald Trump's funding plans for the IRS to a potential markup of Republicans' $3.8 trillion budget reconciliation bill and the continuing crisis in homeowner insurance, here's a peek into a reporter's notebook on a few of the week's developing tax stories.

  • June 06, 2025

    8th Circ. Rejects Farm Leasing Co.'s Switch To Amortization

    The Eighth Circuit denied an Arkansas farm leasing company's action to amortize federal subsidy-eligible land to reduce its tax liability, affirming Friday that the company was not authorized to make such accounting changes without approval from the Internal Revenue Service.

  • June 06, 2025

    11th Circ. Limits Easement Tax Break Tied To Failed Project

    A Georgia partnership that formed after the failure of a resort development and donated a conservation easement in exchange for a tax break cannot take an $8.9 million deduction for the property's fair market value because the land was considered inventory, the Eleventh Circuit said Friday.

  • June 06, 2025

    Facebook Ruling Casts Uncertainty On Cost-Share Disputes

    The U.S. Tax Court recently rejected Facebook's challenge to regulations that determine the buy-in payment for affiliated companies to share the costs of developing intangibles, raising questions about objections to similar rules by pharmaceutical multinationals.

  • June 06, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Winston, Stibbe, Weil, Goodwin

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Chart Industries Inc. and Flowserve Corp. merge, Aedifica NV and Cofinimmo NV unite, Sanofi buys Blueprint Medicines Corp., and Kimberly-Clark Corp. sells a majority stake in its international tissue business to Suzano.

  • June 06, 2025

    Lobbyist Seeks No Prison After Admitting $1.3M Tax Evasion

    A Miami lobbyist who admitted to evading $1.3 million in taxes asked a Florida federal court not to sentence him to prison, saying he reported his tax obligations in full, even for the years when he didn't pay, and was overwhelmed by family expenses.

Expert Analysis

  • Navigating The Last Leg Of The Worker Retention Tax Credit

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    Whether a business has applied for the pandemic-era employee retention tax credit, received a denial letter or is still considering making a claim before the April 15 deadline, it should examine recent developments significantly affecting the program before planning next steps, say attorneys at Nixon Peabody.

  • How Cos. Can Build A Strong In-House Pro Bono Program

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    During this year’s pro bono celebration week, companies should consider some key pointers to grow and maintain a vibrant in-house program for attorneys to provide free legal services for the public good, says Mary Benton at Alston & Bird.

  • Home Canning Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Making my own pickles and jams requires seeing a process through from start to finish, as does representing clients from the start of a dispute at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board through any appeals to the Federal Circuit, says attorney Kevin McNish.

  • Use The Right Kind Of Feedback To Help Gen Z Attorneys

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    Generation Z associates bring unique perspectives and expectations to the workplace, so it’s imperative that supervising attorneys adapt their feedback approach in order to help young lawyers learn and grow — which is good for law firms, too, says Rachael Bosch at Fringe Professional Development.

  • Congress Can And Must Enact A Supreme Court Ethics Code

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    As public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court dips to historic lows following reports raising conflict of interest concerns, Congress must exercise its constitutional power to enact a mandatory and enforceable code of ethics for the high court, says Muhammad Faridi, president of the New York City Bar Association.

  • What To Make Of Dueling Corporate Transparency Act Rulings

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    Although challenges to the Corporate Transparency Act abound — as highlighted by recent federal court decisions from Alabama and Oregon taking opposite positions on its constitutionality — the act is still law, so companies should comply with their filing requirements or face the potential consequences, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • The Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan

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    Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.

  • State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape

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    Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.

  • 8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney

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    A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.

  • How The 2025 Tax Policy Debate Will Affect The Energy Sector

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    Regardless of the outcome of the upcoming U.S. election, 2025 will bring a major tax policy debate that could affect the energy sector more than any other part of the economy — so stakeholders who could be affected should be engaging now to make sure they understand the stakes, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

  • This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process

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    In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • The Trade And Tax Issues Behind US-Canada Digital Tax Clash

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    The new Canadian digital services tax recently went into effect despite objections from the U.S., a controversy that represents an unusual mix of trade and tax policy, and many companies have been pondering how it will affect their e-commerce businesses, says Damon Pike at BDO.

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