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March 25, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires is exceeding the authority Congress intended to grant him in the America Invents Act for discretionarily denying patent challenges, the U.S. House of Representatives' intellectual property leader said Wednesday.
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March 25, 2026
The looming July cutoff to maintain eligibility for clean electricity investment and production tax credits is sparking a dealmaking spree as smaller developers who are unable to meet the deadline begin looking to sell projects to deeper-pocketed players who can.
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March 25, 2026
Two taxpayer groups and a tax counsel association urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a woman's appeal over liabilities triggered by a fraudulent preparer, arguing the Third Circuit decision in the case misread the fraud exception in the tax assessment statute.
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March 25, 2026
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., has sued federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and a former employee for leaking his tax returns along with a trove of confidential tax data on President Donald Trump and other wealthy people, adding to mounting litigation over the breach.
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March 25, 2026
Utah will expand its definition of corporate income to include income allocated to the state under a bill signed by the state's governor.
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March 25, 2026
Idaho expanded a sales tax rebate to reimburse developers of retail complexes for eligible transportation project expenses under a bill signed by the governor.
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March 25, 2026
European Union member states and lawmakers named Lille, France, on Wednesday as the seat of the bloc's new customs authority, a body created as part of a wider effort to modernize the EU's current customs framework.
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March 24, 2026
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio would not have met with an old friend, former Rep. David Rivera, to discuss a government transition in Venezuela had he known Rivera's company had a contract with a subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Rubio told jurors Monday.
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March 24, 2026
SCOTUSblog founder and appellate icon Thomas Goldstein has filed a lengthy motion for a new trial or acquittal after his conviction on a dozen criminal charges related to tax evasion, alleging his trial was marred by improper jury instructions, improper exclusion of evidence and inadequate evidence, among other things.
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March 24, 2026
A United Nations coalition of tax experts will help developing nations set the value of their critical mineral resources for purposes of taxation following a meeting signing off on the plan.
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March 24, 2026
FedEx is entitled to an $89 million tax refund because the U.S. Department of the Treasury lacked the authority to issue regulations disallowing foreign tax credits for offset earnings, the company told the Sixth Circuit, asking the court to uphold a lower court ruling.
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March 24, 2026
The European Union and Australia on Tuesday agreed to terms of a free trade deal that would nearly zero out tariffs on trade between them following eight years of negotiations.
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March 23, 2026
A partnership will be entitled to all of a $48.3 million tax deduction for donating a Louisiana conservation easement amid allegations that the IRS improperly backdated documents to impose civil fraud penalties and circumvent the statute of limitations, according to a decision entered Monday in the U.S. Tax Court.
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March 23, 2026
A North Dakota law firm that got the U.S. Supreme Court to revive its day-late levy challenge has failed to prove that it deserved equitable tolling of its statute of limitations, the IRS told the Eighth Circuit on Monday.
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March 23, 2026
The IRS has no solid strategy for auditing large partnerships, resulting in markedly fewer audits as partnerships proliferate and compliance efforts that go nowhere, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in a report.
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March 23, 2026
A group of Democratic state attorneys general pushed congressional leaders to enact legislation that would require timely refunds of all duties levied under the now-invalidated International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, including interest.
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March 23, 2026
The owner of a vertical farming business whom federal authorities sought to arrest after he failed to report to prison for tax evasion was hospitalized for a medical emergency on his way to surrender, his wife told a Pennsylvania federal court Monday.
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March 23, 2026
The Indiana tax board said that a vacant property purchased to be made into a medical research facility should have its assessed value reduced to account for the cost of demolition.
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March 23, 2026
A Canadian businessman's tax bill must be reduced because Quebec's tax authority included unremitted amounts from outside the assessment period, the Tax Court of Canada said in a judgment.
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March 20, 2026
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is developing a system to refund tariffs struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it remains unclear whether it will cover the entire gamut of duties President Donald Trump imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Here, Law360 examines four open questions surrounding the IEEPA tariff refund system being developed by Customs.
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March 20, 2026
A Florida federal judge Friday denied a former congressman's requests to depose a key witness and have the government turn over interview notes before the start of a trial on charges of failing to register as a Venezuelan foreign agent, saying the defense counsel can still ask questions on cross-examination.
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March 20, 2026
A Texas federal judge has found that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network can't maintain its directive regarding reporting of all-cash residential real estate transactions, after the agency failed to show how the deals should broadly warrant suspicion.
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March 20, 2026
Robb Leandro was the original named plaintiff in one of the longest-running lawsuits in Tar Heel State history, centered on the state's constitutional obligation to provide children with a "sound basic education." Over three decades, a series of eponymous North Carolina Supreme Court opinions have steered the state toward what could be a multibillion-dollar remedy to improve public education. He's now waiting alongside millions of residents for the state's justices to release what could be a far-reaching opinion, more than two years after hearing oral argument.
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March 20, 2026
The D.C. Circuit should keep in place a block on the IRS' policy of sharing data with immigration authorities because the policy is unlawful and a lower court properly weighed the matter, a coalition of nonprofits and labor unions said.
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March 20, 2026
Inheritance tax revenue is still rising due to the freeze on tax thresholds amid rising house prices, Britain's tax authority said Friday.