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May 05, 2026
More than a dozen lawyers and defendants packed a Colorado federal courtroom Tuesday to mark the first day of testimony in the trial against four individuals accused of using their businesses to help promote and sell abusive trust tax shelters.
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May 05, 2026
Ending the carried interest tax break could raise far more than previously estimated, nearly $88 billion in a decade, based on a new methodology put forward in a report by the Yale Budget Lab.
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May 05, 2026
Washington's recently passed tax on income over $1 million cannot be subject to a voter referendum, the state Supreme Court ruled, finding that the tax falls under a referendum exception because of its deemed necessity.
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May 05, 2026
A transportation company cannot pursue its claims that the IRS adopted a secret rule that targeted its stock ownership plan, a Wisconsin federal judge ruled, throwing out the company's suit.
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May 05, 2026
An English soccer referee body won its decadelong dispute with the U.K.'s tax authority after a London tribunal ruled that referees' match-day engagements were contracts for services rather than employment, meaning the group isn't liable for the referees' taxes.
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May 05, 2026
A Wisconsin village is asking the Seventh Circuit to undo a U.S. Department of the Interior decision to place 500 acres of properties into trust for the Oneida Nation, arguing that a district court ignored evidence of bias and shielded the transactional record from meaningful scrutiny.
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May 05, 2026
Latin America and the Caribbean continue to rely far more on taxing goods and services compared to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, while tax revenue as a share of economic growth was largely stagnant in 2024 absent Cuba's outsized gains, the organization said Tuesday in a report.
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May 05, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service agreed to require supervisors to use digital signatures to approve tax penalties as a way to prevent improper backdating and other edits to the approval documents, the agency watchdog said in a report released Tuesday.
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May 05, 2026
European Union member states agreed Tuesday to give anti-fraud bodies more direct access to value-added tax data to better combat VAT-related crime.
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May 04, 2026
Tech groups urged a Florida federal court to deny an attempt to end a lawsuit challenging a state law that punishes social media websites for banning accounts of political candidates' based on viewpoint, calling officials' defense of the legislation "borderline frivolous."
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May 04, 2026
Massachusetts' highest court on Monday was critical of the summary for a ballot proposal to reduce the state income tax during a trio of oral arguments on voter initiatives, including separate measures to repeal recreational marijuana legalization and to eliminate one-party primary elections.
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May 04, 2026
A Minnesota attorney's claim that a county assessor tampered with a witness in a valuation dispute was rejected by the state's tax court, which called the accusation "scurrilous" and found the attorney willfully failed to timely disclose key information.
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May 04, 2026
A former Internal Revenue Service agent was arrested for allegations that he embezzled more than $12 million in his role as a chief financial officer of a New Jersey fuel company, the New Jersey U.S. Attorney's Office said.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Tax Court slashed two partnerships' charitable tax deductions worth a combined $30 million for a pair of conservation easement donations, ruling Monday that the easements' outsize valuation was an attempt to make "too many fast nickels."
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May 04, 2026
A Minnesota organization advocating for Belarusian Americans was late to appeal a property tax valuation despite correspondence making its representative aware of the deadline, the state tax court said.
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May 04, 2026
Investment fund managers behind a conservation easement donation whose charitable tax deduction was embroiled in litigation asked a Georgia federal court to toss a racketeering suit against them by a pair of investors, arguing the fraud claims do not match the allegations.
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May 04, 2026
Canada will provide CA$1.5 billion ($1.1 billion) in financing to companies impacted by U.S. tariffs, especially those on steel, aluminum and copper, the Canadian government said Monday, the latest in a string of support measures.
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May 01, 2026
A man charged with promoting abusive and illegal tax shelters for decades asked a Colorado federal judge just days before trial to throw out the indictment against him, contending the government withheld material exculpatory evidence for more than a year.
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May 01, 2026
Australia has introduced draft amendments to align its 15% global minimum tax rules with guidance issued by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Department of the Treasury said Friday.
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May 01, 2026
A plastics company is appealing a Texas district court's decision to partially vacate IRS regulations that listed captive insurance as potentially abusive tax avoidance schemes and will ask the Fifth Circuit to strike down the entire set of regulations, according to a notice.
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May 01, 2026
Income earned by citizens of Native American tribes as payment for services related to fishing rights activities qualifies as compensation for purposes of limits on qualified retirement plan benefits and contributions, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday.
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May 01, 2026
A Florida federal jury on Friday found former Florida congressman David Rivera guilty of failing to register as a foreign agent after signing a $50 million contract with a unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company.
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April 30, 2026
A closely watched separation-of-powers test is playing out in Massachusetts, where the Bay State auditor will argue to the state's top court in a hearing next week that the attorney general is stonewalling her from conducting a voter-approved audit of the state legislature.
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April 30, 2026
Additional restrictions on third parties filing complaints about property valuation in Ohio violate the state's constitution, an Ohio appellate panel found.
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April 30, 2026
A Sixth Circuit judge expressed confusion Thursday at the IRS' defense of a $24 million air transportation excise tax on monthly management fees paid to a private aviation company after a government attorney conceded that initial ownership payments should also have been taxed.