International

  • January 29, 2025

    HMRC Looking For Input On Pillar 2 Backstop Guidance

    HM Revenue & Customs is looking for input on its guidance for how corporations would need to comply with the U.K.'s proposed adoption of the undertaxed profits rule, a backstop for its Pillar Two global minimum tax system.

  • January 29, 2025

    EU Tax Conduct Group Reelects Chair

    The European Union's Code of Conduct Group reelected its chair for a second term to start next week, the Council of the EU said Wednesday.

  • January 28, 2025

    IRS Whistleblower Office Could Survive Trump Purge

    As President Donald Trump pushes to slash federal spending and gut government agencies, the Internal Revenue Service Whistleblower Office may remain largely unscathed since its recent efforts to efficiently reward and protect those who report illicit tax activity could align with the administration's goals.

  • January 28, 2025

    Trump Pledges Tariffs On Semiconductors, Chips, Drugs

    The U.S. will soon place tariffs on foreign-manufactured semiconductors, computer chips and pharmaceuticals in an effort to convince foreign companies to move their manufacturing operations stateside, President Donald Trump told House Republicans at a conference.

  • January 28, 2025

    OECD Details Documents Needed For Int'l Pricing Program

    The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released more details Tuesday on the information that multinational entities must disclose when applying for the group's International Compliance Assurance Program, a multilateral effort to resolve transfer pricing issues.

  • January 28, 2025

    Ukrainian Duo Get 15 Years In $25M Tax Fraud Case

    A Florida federal judge sentenced two Ukrainian men to 15 years in prison after they pled guilty to laundering money from a hotel staffing scheme that the U.S. government said cost it $25 million in taxes.

  • January 28, 2025

    Tax Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP helped secure high-profile mergers and acquisitions for major media and communications companies in 2024, having played key roles in Paramount's $28 billion merger agreement with Skydance Media and a separate deal involving Verizon Communications, earning the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2025

    Argentina To Slash Car Sales Taxes, EV Tariffs

    Argentina will zero out sales taxes on some cars and eliminate tariffs on low-cost electric and hybrid vehicles starting next week, the country's minister of economy said Tuesday.

  • January 28, 2025

    4 Convicted In Lithuania In €10M Cigarette Tax Fraud Ring

    A Lithuanian court convicted four people, including two former customs officers, for their roles in a cigarette smuggling scheme that evaded €10 million ($10.4 million) in import, customs and excise taxes, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday.

  • January 28, 2025

    France Probes Binance Over Money Laundering Breaches

    France's public prosecutor on Tuesday opened a criminal investigation into crypto exchange Binance over suspected money laundering and terrorist financing breaches that authorities said may have enabled tax fraud and drug trafficking.

  • January 28, 2025

    EU Authorities Smash €100M Money Laundering Scheme

    A group of more than 20 individuals suspected of running a €100 million ($104 million) money laundering scheme in Europe has been arrested following a two-year investigation by law enforcement authorities in Spain, Cyprus and Germany, an EU agency said Tuesday.

  • January 27, 2025

    Canadian Taxpayer Group Plans To Contest Capital Gains Hike

    A Canadian taxpayers group said it plans to ask the nation's Federal Court to block a proposed increase in capital gains tax that is said has not been approved by the Canadian Parliament.

  • January 27, 2025

    HMRC Can Appeal In Dispute Over UK-Ireland Tax Agreement

    HM Revenue & Customs can proceed with an appeal in its case alleging an Irish company's investment in a U.K.-based company was made to gain tax advantages, the Court of Appeal ruled Monday after hearing arguments.

  • January 27, 2025

    Senate Confirms Bessent As Treasury Secretary

    A bipartisan majority of senators voted Monday to confirm billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary, putting in place a key member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet.

  • January 27, 2025

    ITC Says China May Be Dumping Erythritol In US

    The U.S. International Trade Commission has determined that there is a "reasonable indication" that imports of the artificial sweetener erythritol from China are damaging U.S. industry, it announced.

  • January 27, 2025

    Tesla Takes EU To Court Over Electric Vehicle Tariffs

    Tesla is taking the European Union to court over anti-subsidy tariffs the bloc has imposed on imports of electric vehicles from China, Europe's top court confirmed on its website Monday.

  • January 27, 2025

    Transfer Pricing Brought In £1.8B In Tax Last Year, HMRC Says

    U.K. transfer pricing activities brought in nearly £1.8 billion ($2.2 billion) in additional tax revenue in the 2023-24 tax year, HM Revenue & Customs said Monday, an over £150 million increase from the year prior despite a decrease in overall inquiries.

  • January 27, 2025

    Suspected Leader Of €297M VAT Fraud Indicted, EPPO Says

    The suspected ringleader of a €297 million ($312 million) value-added tax fraud ring was indicted two months after the European Public Prosecutor's Office first broke up the scheme, the EPPO said Monday, saying he was indicted in record time for such a complex case.

  • January 27, 2025

    HMRC's Response To Phone Calls Hits Decade Low, Firm Says

    HMRC answered half as many phone calls from taxpayers during the last tax year compared with 2015, with that figure reaching a decade low, a publicly traded British brokerage said Monday, citing documents the firm said it received in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

  • January 27, 2025

    Mike Ashley Wins Data Request Battle With HMRC

    HM Revenue and Customs wrongly withheld personal information from Mike Ashley after the founder of the Sports Direct chain issued a data request following the tax authority's demand for £13.6 million ($17 million) in additional taxes, a London court ruled Monday.

  • January 24, 2025

    Gov't Says Ukrainian Duo Should Get 15 Years For $25M Fraud

    Prosecutors have asked a Florida federal court to sentence two Ukrainian men to 15½ years in prison after they pled guilty to laundering money from a hotel staffing scheme that the U.S. government said cost it $25 million in taxes.

  • January 24, 2025

    Tax Break Doesn't Apply To £1.3M Project, UK Court Affirms

    Investors who sank £1.3 million ($1.6 million) into a children's cartoon show will not qualify for a special tax break because the investment failed to meet at least one of the program's qualifications, the U.K.'s Upper Tribunal affirmed.

  • January 24, 2025

    Reed Smith Brings Back Tax Pro From Amazon In Brussels

    An attorney who specializes in customs, trade and excise tax matters in the European Union and U.K. has rejoined Reed Smith LLP in Brussels after a stint at Amazon, the firm announced.

  • January 24, 2025

    Manchester United Ambassador Liable For Tax On £450K

    An ambassador for the Manchester United Football Club is liable for additional taxes on about £450,000 ($562,000) paid by the club over 16 months, but he successfully appealed assessments on about £1.1 million received during several other years, according to a First-tier Tribunal decision.

  • January 24, 2025

    House Bill Would Repeal Stock Buyback Tax

    The excise tax on stock buybacks would be repealed under legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Expert Analysis

  • Circuit Judge Writes An Opinion, AI Helps: What Now?

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    Last week's Eleventh Circuit opinion in Snell v. United Specialty Insurance, notable for a concurrence outlining the use of artificial intelligence to evaluate a term's common meaning, is hopefully the first step toward developing a coherent basis for the judiciary's generative AI use, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.

  • Trauma-Informed Legal Approaches For Pro Bono Attorneys

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    As National Trauma Awareness Month ends, pro bono attorneys should nevertheless continue to acknowledge the mental and physical effects of trauma, allowing them to better represent clients, and protect themselves from compassion fatigue and burnout, say Katherine Cronin at Stinson and Katharine Manning at Blackbird.

  • How Attys Can Avoid Pitfalls When Withdrawing From A Case

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    The Trump campaign's recent scuffle over its bid to replace its counsel in a pregnancy retaliation suit offers a chance to remind attorneys that many troubles inherent in withdrawing from a case can be mitigated or entirely avoided by communicating with clients openly and frequently, says Christopher Konneker at Orsinger Nelson.

  • Using A Children's Book Approach In Firm Marketing Content

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    From “The Giving Tree” to “Where the Wild Things Are,” most children’s books are easy to remember because they use simple words and numbers to tell stories with a human impact — a formula law firms should emulate in their marketing content to stay front of mind for potential clients, says Seema Desai Maglio at The Found Word.

  • New Crypto Reporting Will Require Rigorous Recordkeeping

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    The release of a form for reporting digital asset transactions is a pivotal moment in the Internal Revenue Service's efforts to track cryptocurrency activities that increases oversight by requiring brokers to report investor sales and exchanges, say Shaina Kamen and Max Angel at Holland & Knight.

  • Exploring An Alternative Model Of Litigation Finance

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    A new model of litigation finance, most aptly described as insurance-backed litigation funding, differs from traditional funding in two key ways, and the process of securing it involves three primary steps, say Bob Koneck, Christopher Le Neve Foster and Richard Butters at Atlantic Global Risk LLC.

  • A Vision For Economic Clerkships In The Legal System

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    As courts handle increasingly complex damages analyses involving vast amounts of data, an economic clerkship program — integrating early-career economists into the judicial system — could improve legal outcomes and provide essential training to clerks, say Mona Birjandi at Data for Decisions and Matt Farber at Secretariat.

  • A Look At New IRS Rules For Domestically Controlled REITs

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    The Internal Revenue Services' finalized Treasury Regulations addressing whether real estate investment trusts qualify as domestically controlled adopt the basic structure of previous proposals, but certain new and modified rules may mitigate the regulations' impact, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Text Message Data

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    Electronically stored information on cellphones, and in particular text messages, can present unique litigation challenges, and recent court decisions demonstrate that counsel must carefully balance what data should be preserved, collected, reviewed and produced, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Don't Use The Same Template For Every Client Alert

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    As the old marketing adage goes, consistency is key, but law firm style guides need consistency that contemplates variety when it comes to client alert formats, allowing attorneys to tailor alerts to best fit the audience and subject matter, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: Follow The Iron Rule Of Trial Logic

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    Many diligent and eager attorneys include every good fact, point and rule in their trial narratives — spurred by the gnawing fear they’ll be second-guessed for leaving something out — but this approach ignores a fundamental principle of successful trial lawyering, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • The Art Of Asking: Leveraging Your Contacts For Referrals

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    Though attorneys may hesitate to ask for referral recommendations to generate new business, research shows that people want to help others they know, like and trust, so consider who in your network you should approach and how to make the ask, says Rebecca Hnatowski at Edwards Advisory.

  • Unpacking The Bill To Extend TCJA's Biz-Friendly Tax Breaks

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    Attorneys at Skadden examine how a bipartisan bill currently being considered by the U.S. Senate to save the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act's tax breaks for research and development costs, and other expiring business-friendly provisions, would affect taxpayers.

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