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April 17, 2026
A Maryland federal court has resumed a lawsuit accusing a D.C. corporate tax attorney and his former law firm of a $19 million captive insurance scam following notification that the bankruptcy proceedings of the attorney and the firm have concluded.
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April 16, 2026
A Washington state appellate judge pushed back Thursday on Seattle's defense of COVID-19-era tenant rights ordinances, observing that the plaintiff landlord may have a stronger Fifth Amendment takings claim than usual because of the "unique" situation of "six regulations passed within a short time period."
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April 16, 2026
The IRS unveiled proposed regulations Thursday to implement a higher threshold of $2,000 for when gambling businesses must report payouts to the government — including winnings from bingo, keno and slot machines — reflecting changes in the 2025 budget law.
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April 16, 2026
A California mall should not have its property value reduced despite hardships faced due to the coronavirus pandemic, because the mandated closures did not physically affect the property, a state appellate court affirmed.
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April 16, 2026
The Kentucky General Assembly overrode the governor's veto of a bill that eliminates its sales tax nexus transaction threshold, levies sales tax on data brokering services and will conform the state's tax code with some provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
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April 16, 2026
A Texas federal judge vacated a tax code regulation designating microcaptive insurance transactions as listed transactions subject to deep scrutiny and hefty penalties, saying the Internal Revenue Service didn't prove that they are mostly for tax avoidance and not really for insurance.
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April 16, 2026
Shareholders of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce voted against a proposal to require the bank to disclose public country-by-country reports of tax information Thursday, with only about 10% of shareholders voting in favor.
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April 15, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm recently issued updated enforcement guidance that highlighted the agency's goal of shifting to focus more on breaches of the fiduciary duty of loyalty under federal benefits law. Here are three things experts said stood out about the DOL's update.
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April 15, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits division cautioned Wednesday that proxy advisory firms may be providing advice that could make them fiduciaries under federal law, following through on a directive that President Donald Trump issued in December.
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April 15, 2026
Centrica's activities in a North Sea natural gas field amount to oil extraction, and therefore the company is liable for corporate tax bills totaling £5.3 million ($7.2 million) under the rules governing energy taxation, according to a London tribunal.
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April 15, 2026
A West Virginia federal judge has narrowed the evidence prosecutors can present at trial in a revived trade secret case against two former Deloitte employees, curtailing use of an internal investigative report from the company they joined and restricting how "trade secrets" may be used to describe allegedly confidential materials.
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April 14, 2026
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger on Tuesday declined to sign into law legislation that would tax and regulate the sale of adult-use cannabis, sending the bill back to the Legislature with numerous changes, including delaying the launch of the retail market by an additional six months.
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April 14, 2026
Oklahoma residents will vote on a constitutional amendment that if passed would require statewide laws establishing reimbursement methods for local taxing jurisdictions that lose money due to the manufacturing facilities property exemption, under an approved resolution.
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April 14, 2026
The IRS audited just 3% of taxpayers with $6.2 trillion offshore who were identified as noncompliant with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and assessed no penalties to the vast majority of "egregious nonfilers," the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in a report.
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April 14, 2026
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's automated tariff refund system is nearly complete, but thousands of imports may require a more cumbersome manual process that could undermine the agency's other priorities, an official told the U.S. Court of International Trade on Tuesday.
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April 14, 2026
A Connecticut taxpayer has filed a proposed class action against Pullman & Comley LLC, one of its attorneys, the town of Woodstock and its official tax collector, accusing the town of illegally delegating authority and the firm of overstepping while working as an arm of the tax office.
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April 14, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service's revocation of a fuel distributor's designation for recovering taxes it paid on exempt sales to state and local governments was arbitrary and capricious, a Florida federal judge said in siding with the company in its $1.8 million tax refund case.
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April 14, 2026
Holland & Knight LLP announced on Monday that it had hired a Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner who focuses on the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, employee benefits and executive compensation.
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April 14, 2026
The owner of two fire alarm companies has been banned from running businesses for six years after dodging more than £327,000 ($444,000) in income tax and value-added tax owed to the U.K.'s tax authority, the Insolvency Service said Tuesday.
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April 13, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured a mix of high-stakes settlements, fast-moving deal litigation, governance disputes and a notable post-trial ruling involving fraud-tainted loans.
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April 13, 2026
A federal ban on home distilleries that dates to the early temperance movement violates the U.S. Constitution's limits on congressional taxing power, the Fifth Circuit said in siding with hobbyists, including one who said he wants to experiment with apple-pie vodka recipes in his garage.
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April 13, 2026
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced two additions to its private funds platform on Monday, one from Kirkland & Ellis and the other from DLA Piper.
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April 13, 2026
Ireland will spend €505 million ($592 million) on further cuts to fuel taxes, deferring a carbon tax increase and offering financial aid to fuel-intensive industries after protesters blockaded infrastructure over rising costs linked to the U.S. and Israel's war in Iran, according to the government.
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April 10, 2026
A Georgia federal judge won't allow a conservation easement entity to litigate tort claims against its insurance broker while arbitrating a dispute with its insurer over coverage for an IRS settlement, ruling that those claims could only be sorted out after an initial coverage determination.
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April 10, 2026
A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday vacated a district court ruling giving Foley & Lardner LLP first dibs on nearly $800,000 in fees for representing a conservative nonprofit in a 13-year-old suit against the Internal Revenue Service, giving Bopp Law Firm a chance to argue for a larger cut of the pie.