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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Tax Court's improper withholding of an appraiser report as evidence resulted in a flawed opinion last year that substantially slashed the value of a North Carolina conservation easement donation by 94%, the partnership donor told the Tenth Circuit.
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June 30, 2026
Two Massachusetts homeowners failed to prove their property had been overvalued and resulted in a tax assessment that was higher than it should have been, the state Appellate Tax Board ruled.
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June 30, 2026
Penalties and interest of more than $250,000 on a Massachusetts estate tax bill paid nearly seven years late were reasonable and lawful, the state's top court affirmed Tuesday.
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June 30, 2026
The abolition of a de minimis customs exemption and a new duty on low-value parcels entering the European Union, set to apply starting Wednesday, do not specifically target China, a senior European Commission official said.
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June 29, 2026
Virginia, the state with the country's largest number of data centers, enacted a budget Monday that includes a first-in-the-nation electricity tax on the centers.
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June 29, 2026
The Second Circuit revived penalty collection challenges Monday by six companies found to owe $380 million to the IRS from participating in a tax scheme, saying an appeals officer's failure to verify that fines had been approved by a supervisor invalidated the collection process.
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June 29, 2026
A federal judge in Seattle consolidated a pair of proposed class actions brought by Amazon customers looking to recover millions of dollars in refunds for the now-invalidated International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, as the two suits made essentially identical allegations.
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June 29, 2026
The Spanish government has decided to cut its 7% tax on electricity producers starting this year, reaching a 0% rate in 2028 as costs for the country's electricity system become less expensive, the country's cabinet said Monday.
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June 29, 2026
Authorities have conducted searches in and around France's capital region as part of an investigation into a €13 million ($17.2 million) value-added tax fraud scheme involving 26 French companies, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said Monday.
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June 29, 2026
Former New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin asserts that a lawsuit from a former CEO indicted in New Jersey's now-dismissed criminal racketeering case against South Jersey power broker George E. Norcross III squarely implicates the protections afforded to prosecutors.
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June 29, 2026
Florida will change the calculation of the maximum allowed for local property tax millage rates under a bill signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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June 29, 2026
A father-daughter attorney duo is asking the full Fourth Circuit to rethink their convictions in a $22 million tax avoidance scheme, arguing a U.S. Supreme Court decision that came down just two days after a panel affirmed their guilty verdicts supports their argument that prosecutors pursued charges in the wrong state.
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June 29, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving controlling stockholders, executive compensation, take-private transactions, books and records demands and board governance, while the Delaware Supreme Court issued decisions in two corporate records cases previously decided in the Chancery.
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June 29, 2026
The conveyance of a 25% undivided interest in a 36-acre Oregon property within an urban growth boundary constituted a sale disqualifying it from a tax break for farm properties, the state tax court ruled.
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June 29, 2026
The president has unlimited authority to fire members of independent agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in a major win for President Donald Trump's campaign against officials at the Federal Trade Commission and beyond.
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June 26, 2026
The federal judiciary announced Friday it will temporarily increase the fees for electronic access to court records to pay for a potential $800 million upgrade that will modernize and strengthen court records systems PACER and CM/ECF, an upgrade it previously said is needed to respond to escalating cyberattacks.
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June 26, 2026
North Carolina authorized local governments to approve special districts and provide property tax exclusions for eligible development projects in those areas under a bill signed by the governor.
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June 26, 2026
President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 100% tariff on imports entering the U.S. from countries in the European Union planning to levy new digital service taxes, according to a social media post Friday.
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June 26, 2026
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Germany's Merck KGaA acquires life sciences tools supplier Bio-Techne Corp., drugmaker AbbVie buys clinical-stage biotechnology company Apogee Therapeutics, and building materials supplier CRH acquires infrastructure products maker Arcosa Inc.
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June 25, 2026
A DeWalt tools purchaser on Thursday filed a proposed class action against its parent company, Stanley Black & Decker, claiming that the company hiked prices as a result of tariffs that were later deemed illegal and now owes consumers refunds as a result.
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June 25, 2026
Judges for the Eleventh Circuit probed attorneys for Coca-Cola and the government Thursday about whether the IRS was arbitrary in abandoning its position in a closing agreement the beverage company had relied on for decades to calculate its transfer prices with related foreign suppliers.
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June 25, 2026
Convicted SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein and federal prosecutors are clashing again over their dramatically divergent sentencing recommendations, with the defense accusing the government of presenting a "one-dimensional caricature" of the famed lawyer in seeking an eight-year sentence, and prosecutors accusing him of potentially deleting "secret chats" with his gambling backers.
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June 25, 2026
A North Carolina woman who owned a tax return preparation business will be ordered to pay just under $13.9 million after she pled guilty to conspiring to prepare false tax returns, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
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June 25, 2026
A clinic manager who paid patients in gift cards is challenging her six-year prison sentence, telling the Fourth Circuit on Thursday that a federal judge failed to consider other mitigating factors when sentencing her for healthcare fraud and failing to file a tax return.
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June 25, 2026
The Detroit Public Schools Community District and its predecessor have lost a bid to continue collecting an operating tax after an emergency loan is paid off, with an appellate court panel finding state law does not allow the tax to be levied to pay off other long-term debts.