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May 27, 2026
A dentist's sentence of almost 3½ years for evading over $1.6 million in personal taxes through an abusive-trust tax scheme was affirmed by the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday, as the appellate court rejected his argument that his sentence is both procedurally and substantively unreasonable.
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May 27, 2026
A tax lawyer cannot use the Fifth Amendment to shield his U.S. financial records from liquidators appointed by an Australian court that hit his family's companies with a civil assessment of AU$100 million ($71.4 million) for a decades-long tax fraud, a New York bankruptcy court said.
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May 27, 2026
The U.S. Court of International Trade requested that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney S. Scott appear during a hearing scheduled for early next month to discuss the agency's plans for refunds of tariffs struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, according to orders issued Wednesday.
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May 27, 2026
The U.S. is capping tariffs on certain Taiwanese products while eliminating some derivative tariffs on aircraft components as part of the implementation of a deal aimed at bringing semiconductor production to the U.S., the U.S. Department of Commerce said Wednesday.
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May 27, 2026
Italian authorities arrested the suspected leaders of a criminal organization that defrauded European Union governments of more than €78 million ($90.7 million) in value-added taxes on hygiene and household products, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said Wednesday.
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May 26, 2026
The owner of a Pennsylvania mushroom farm will get a new sentence for failing to forward her workers' tax withholdings, after the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday that her sentencing guidelines should not have included an additional $1.8 million in taxes that her company failed to pay.
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May 26, 2026
A Minnesota couple with a seasonal resort and year-round home is entitled to full homestead credits for both, the state tax court said, calling the statutory distance limitation on application of that benefit ambiguous.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. government asked the Fifth Circuit to revisit its April opinion finding the tax code's ban on distilling whiskey at home unconstitutional after another appellate court's opposite conclusion affirmed the ban.
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May 26, 2026
Latin American countries identified at least €576 million ($670 million) in additional liabilities for taxes, interest and penalties last year through the common reporting standard and exchange of information between tax authorities, according to the OECD's tax transparency forum.
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May 26, 2026
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's tariff refund system has processed hundreds of thousands of new entries over the past two weeks, and since coming online last month it has cleared $20.6 billion in refunds for duties struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court to importers, according to a declaration filed Tuesday in the U.S. Court of International Trade.
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May 26, 2026
The owner of a 35-acre property in Minnesota failed to show sufficient evidence that his use of the land met the threshold for an agricultural tax break, the state tax court affirmed.
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May 26, 2026
Arizona will retroactively clarify its treatment of the tax valuation of destroyed property under newly signed legislation amending language in a 2024 measure that left questions in its application.
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May 22, 2026
This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.
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May 22, 2026
A former federal prosecutor who worked on Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection cases sued Friday over the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund created by President Donald Trump's settlement with the Internal Revenue Service, calling it a "slush fund" that's "on a collision course with the United States Constitution."
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May 22, 2026
Creating a multibillion-dollar competition between Illinois and Indiana to build the Chicago Bears' new stadium is a strategy that has become increasingly popular among pro franchises that can leverage tax and financial incentives, and even real estate deals.
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May 22, 2026
A former CEO who was previously incarcerated with embattled insurance mogul Greg Lindberg told a North Carolina federal judge of the billionaire's "humanity" and "generosity" in a character letter to the court ahead of his sentencing on federal wire fraud and bribery charges.
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May 22, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service is required to accept statements from the U.S. Tax Court's opinion and other items from the record of litigation with Facebook Inc. in its current dispute with the company's successor, Meta Platforms Inc., the company argued.
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May 22, 2026
Tennessee extended the time frame for eligible nonprofit entities to retroactively apply a property tax exemption under a bill signed by the governor.
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May 22, 2026
The IRS did not violate a group of taxpayers' rights to jury trials when it hit them with more than $30 million in penalties for tax fraud, the agency told the U.S. Supreme Court, maintaining that the Eleventh Circuit's decision to deny them juries should stand.
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May 22, 2026
Wisconsin's top court let stand a ruling that found Skechers USA lacked purpose — other than avoiding taxes — for creating a subsidiary and entering into transactions with it that resulted in the company claiming nearly half a billion dollars in deductions in the state.
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May 22, 2026
The National Football League's Chicago Bears said the team is no longer looking to build a new stadium in the city of Chicago as they weigh a move to either Arlington Heights, Illinois, or Hammond, Indiana.
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May 22, 2026
Colorado's marijuana regulator used an "unlawful" method for calculating average market rates of cannabis that resulted in inflated excise taxes being assessed against state-licensed operators, a proposed class action filed Thursday in Denver state court alleges.
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May 22, 2026
A group of pension plans and associated individuals cannot use timing limitations to quickly dismiss the Belgian government's suit alleging they fraudulently claimed about €124 million ($144 million) in tax refunds on dividends, a New York federal court said.
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May 22, 2026
Greenberg Traurig LLP has hired in Washington, D.C., a former Eversheds Sutherland counsel who advises clients on state and local tax controversies, tax planning and tax policy matters, the firm has announced.
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May 22, 2026
Federal prosecutors are seeking a nearly $2 million forfeiture judgment against convicted SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein and asking a Maryland federal judge to turn the Supreme Court lawyer's Northwest D.C. home over to the government to pay it.