Federal
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January 16, 2025
Tax Court Denies Late Pass For Identity Theft
A California couple cannot challenge an Internal Revenue Service decision to levy their state tax refund because they missed the deadline for filing a petition by four years, the U.S. Tax Court said Thursday, rejecting their request for an extension for dealing with identity theft.
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January 16, 2025
DOJ Tax Chief Touts Winning Court Record On Appeals
The U.S. Department of Justice's Tax Division won an overwhelming majority of appeals in tax cases last year by prioritizing strong legal arguments in disputes that had the potential to significantly affect federal tax administration, the head of the division said Thursday.
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January 16, 2025
Tax Court Rejects Explanation For Unreported Wages
A woman owes taxes on nearly $19,000 of unreported income she said she reported on a gift tax return, the U.S. Tax Court ruled Thursday, rejecting her argument that wages reported as gifts would not incur taxes.
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January 16, 2025
Tax Court Tosses Some Of Ind. Couple's Deduction Claims
The U.S. Tax Court had mixed responses Thursday related to an Indiana couple's claimed business deductions tied to a rental property as well as itemized deductions related to the husband's work as an electrician, allowing some while saying others weren't properly substantiated.
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January 16, 2025
IRS Explains Changing Elective Payment Accounting Periods
The IRS provided procedures Thursday for certain entities — including Native American tribes and state governments — that aren't required to file federal income tax returns but have chosen to make elective payments and want to change their taxable years to match their accounting periods.
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January 16, 2025
AmEx Inks $230M Deal Over DOJ, Fed Small Biz Sales Claims
American Express has signed a nonprosecution agreement and said Thursday it will pay about $230 million to end investigations by the Department of Justice and the Federal Reserve into the financial services company's previous sales practices for some small business customers in the U.S.
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January 16, 2025
Tax Court's 90-Day Deadline Is Not Fixed, 6th Circ. Told
A woman who missed the 90-day deadline for challenging her liabilities in the U.S. Tax Court told the Sixth Circuit on Thursday that the Internal Revenue Service has wrongly argued that case law proves the deadline is set in stone.
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January 16, 2025
SCOTUSblog Publisher Tom Goldstein Indicted In Tax Case
Tom Goldstein, a publisher of SCOTUSblog and one of the most experienced U.S. Supreme Court lawyers in the country, was indicted Thursday in Maryland federal court on charges he schemed to evade paying taxes for years and used funds from his boutique law firm to cover gambling debts.
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January 16, 2025
OECD To Release List Of Abusive Transactions Under Pillar 2
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is putting together a list of intercompany transactions that may raise red flags as attempts to undermine an international minimum tax agreement known as Pillar Two, an OECD official said Thursday.
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January 16, 2025
Morrison Foerster Adds Tax Group Co-Chair From Jones Day
Morrison Foerster LLP announced it has added a partner from Jones Day to serve as co-chair of the firm's global tax group in its New York office.
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January 16, 2025
Atty Gets 5-Year NJ Suspension After Tax Fraud Conviction
A Philadelphia-based personal injury attorney convicted for not paying income tax on more than $8 million in revenue he earned and for failing to pay almost $60,000 in payroll taxes received a five-year suspension from New Jersey's Supreme Court but will keep his law license in the state.
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January 16, 2025
IRS Corrects Simplified Foreign Currency Rules
The Internal Revenue Service issued corrections Thursday to finalized regulations that aim to simplify aspects of how corporations determine taxable income or loss with respect to certain affiliates that conduct business in a foreign currency.
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January 16, 2025
Treasury Updates Bonus Energy Tax Credit Safe Harbors
The U.S. Treasury Department provided updates Thursday to safe harbors that clean energy project developers can use to qualify for bonus tax credits for domestically sourcing steel and aluminum parts in response to new trade restrictions on solar products from China by President Joe Biden's administration.
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January 15, 2025
Tax Court Rejects Brothers' Claims Of Gifted Jewelry
The U.S. Tax Court on Wednesday upheld $2.5 million in taxes, plus fraud penalties, against brothers who claimed an unreported bank account held nontaxable proceeds from the sale of their mother's gift of 1,600 pieces of jewelry from Israel and Iran.
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January 15, 2025
Dems, GOP Willing To Work On Certain Tax Issues, Aides Say
Democrats are willing to work with Republicans on bipartisan issues, such as providing certain treaty-like benefits to Taiwanese residents, retirement issues, and tax administration issues, Democratic and GOP aides for the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees said Wednesday.
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January 15, 2025
More IRS Partnership 'Soft Letters' Coming, Official Says
The Internal Revenue Service will keep using an educational compliance tool called soft letters to prod taxpayers to comply with a centralized partnership audit regime that has recently turned its focus to larger and more complicated entities, an agency official said Wednesday.
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January 15, 2025
Former IRS Litigator Joins Jones Day In Boston
Jones Day announced it added an experienced IRS litigator to its Boston office who will work as of counsel in the firm's tax practice.
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January 15, 2025
Legislators Say Transparency Act Defies First Amendment
The Corporate Transparency Act is an unnecessary intrusion into the First Amendment rights of Americans, U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and 13 House members told the Supreme Court in seeking to maintain an injunction issued in December.
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January 15, 2025
IRS Establishes Clean Vehicle Credit Valuation Safe Harbors
The Internal Revenue Service provided two safe harbors Wednesday for calculating the value of the commercial clean vehicle tax credit using either modeled incremental costs or retail-price equivalents.
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January 15, 2025
House Clears US-Taiwan Double Tax Relief Bill
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday that would provide Taiwanese businesses in the United States with tax-treaty-like benefits and authorize the White House to negotiate a tax agreement with Taiwan.
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January 15, 2025
9th Circ. Won't Review Nixed Deductions For Disbarred Atty
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday rejected a disbarred California attorney's requests to review its December decision to uphold a U.S. Tax Court ruling denying his bid to take business deductions for the cost of challenging his disbarment and a court's declaration that he is a "vexatious litigant."
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January 15, 2025
IRS Pilots Aim To Broaden Fast-Track Settlement Program
The Internal Revenue Service announced Wednesday that it would test changes to its settlement procedures through pilot programs that aim to allow more businesses and self-employed people to keep their disputes with the agency out of court.
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January 15, 2025
IRS Lists Facility Types Eligible For Clean Energy Credits
The Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday released the first annual table showing the types of facilities that have been deemed to not produce greenhouse gas emissions and are therefore eligible for the clean energy production and investment tax credits.
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January 15, 2025
Booz Allen Must Pay For Harm Of Tax Info Leaks, Court Told
A proposed class action in Maryland federal court blames IRS contractor Booz Allen Hamilton over the thousands of tax returns that were stolen by an employee who took financial information about President-elect Donald Trump and others while on the job and leaked it to the media.
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January 15, 2025
Applicable Federal Rates To Continue Rising In Feb.
Applicable federal rates for income tax purposes will increase across the board for the third straight month in February, the Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday.
Trump's Treasury Pick Calls For Permanently Extending TCJA
Congress must permanently extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions set to expire this year to prevent the largest tax increase in history, Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, told the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.
IRS Mulling Widened Early Application Of Offshore Profit Regs
The Internal Revenue Service is considering expanding the early application option for proposed regulations designed to help U.S. multinational corporations properly account for previously taxed earnings and profits, an agency official said Wednesday.
IRS Floats Counting Affiliate Pay In $1M Pay Deduction Cap
Compensation from affiliates of publicly traded companies would count toward the $1 million limit on tax deductions for performance-based pay of high-earning employees under rules proposed Tuesday by the U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service.
Trump's Treasury Pick Calls For Permanently Extending TCJA
Congress must permanently extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions set to expire this year to prevent the largest tax increase in history, Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, told the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.
IRS Mulling Widened Early Application Of Offshore Profit Regs
The Internal Revenue Service is considering expanding the early application option for proposed regulations designed to help U.S. multinational corporations properly account for previously taxed earnings and profits, an agency official said Wednesday.
IRS Floats Counting Affiliate Pay In $1M Pay Deduction Cap
Compensation from affiliates of publicly traded companies would count toward the $1 million limit on tax deductions for performance-based pay of high-earning employees under rules proposed Tuesday by the U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service.
Featured Stories
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The Tax Angle: GOP Lawmakers Grapple With TCJA Renewal
From a look at Congress setting parameters for consideration of legislation to renew the GOP's 2017 tax overhaul law to other upcoming tax action in the House and Senate, here's a peek into a reporter's notebook on a few of the week's developing tax stories.
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New Rules Won't Lift Political Clouds Over Hydrogen Projects
The Biden administration's new rules to make hydrogen production tax credits more accessible for project developers and investors may not move the needle much for the industry given President-elect Donald Trump's vow to at least partially repeal the statute that created the credits.
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US International Tax Issues to Watch In 2025
As President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans take control of the U.S. government in 2025, policymakers are expected to address changing international provisions in the Internal Revenue Code and reevaluate the country's role in global tax talks. Here, Law360 examines key U.S. international tax policy issues to watch in the new year.
Expert Analysis
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Small Biz Caught In Corporate Transparency Act Crossfire
Despite compliance being put on hold due to a nationwide preliminary injunction, small businesses have been caught in the middle of the legal battle over the Corporate Transparency Act — and confusion over the law's requirements could result in major penalties, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.
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No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.
A recent study claimed that litigation funders have “fled” Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.
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Hydrogen Regs Will Provide More Certainty — If They Survive
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Newly finalized regulations implementing the Section 45V clean hydrogen tax credit allow producers more flexibility, and should therefore help put the industry on more solid footing — but the incoming Trump administration and Republican Congress will have multiple options for overturning or altering the regulations, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2025 And Beyond
In the year to come, e-discovery will be shaped by new and emerging trends, from the adoption of artificial intelligence provisions in protective orders, to the proliferation of emojis as a source of evidence in contemporary litigation, say attorneys at Littler.
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What's Ahead As Transparency Act Comes To A Crossroads
Synthesizing the contrasting federal district and appellate court rulings on the Corporate Transparency Act’s validity reveals several main areas of debate that will likely remain at issue as challenges to the law continue winding through the courts, say attorneys at Farella Braun.
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Final Hydrogen Tax Credit Regs Add Flexibility For Producers
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The recently released final regulations implementing the Inflation Reduction Act's clean hydrogen production tax credit offer taxpayers greater flexibility, reducing risk and creating more certainty for investments in the industry, thus diminishing — but not eliminating — the risk of legal challenges to the regulations, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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5 Evolving Concerns For Family Offices In 2025
Complex regulatory changes and emerging operational risks will force family offices to stay on their toes in 2025, with timely action particularly necessary to address several tax and reporting developments that may affect their investments and business operations, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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7 Ways 2nd Trump Administration May Affect Partner Hiring
President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House will likely have a number of downstream effects on partner hiring in the legal industry, from accelerated hiring timelines to increased vetting of prospective employees, say recruiters at Macrae.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Custodian Selection
Several recent rulings make clear that the proportionality of additional proposed custodians will depend on whether the custodians have unique relevant documents, and producing parties should consider whether information already in the record will show that they have relevant documents that otherwise might not be produced, say attorneys at Sidley.
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A Look At PCAOB's Record-Breaking Enforcement In 2024
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in 2024 brought more enforcement actions against auditors and imposed increasingly higher monetary penalties, showing that it was not afraid to exercise its power to fine and reprimand firms, a trend that will likely continue in 2025, say attorneys at Briglia Hundley.
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Exploring Venue Strategy For Trump-Era Regulatory Litigation
Litigation will likely play a prominent role in shaping policy outcomes during the second Trump administration, and stakeholders have several tools at their disposal to steer regulatory litigation toward more favorable venues, say attorneys at Covington.
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An Associate's Guide To Career Development In 2025
As the new year begins, associates at all levels should consider establishing career metrics, fostering key relationships and employing other specific strategies to help move through the complexities of the legal profession with confidence and emerge as trailblazers, say EJ Stern and Amanda George at Fractional Law Firm.
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Fixing Up Cars Makes Me A Better Lawyer
From problem-solving to patience and adaptability to organization, the skills developed working under the hood of a car directly translate to being a more effective lawyer, says Christopher Mdeway at Kaufman Dolowich.