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  • May 01, 2025

    IRS Updates Inflation-Adjusted HSA Amounts For 2026

    The Internal Revenue Service issued inflation-adjusted amounts Thursday for health savings accounts for 2026, as well as the maximum amount that may be made available for excepted benefit health reimbursement arrangements.

  • May 01, 2025

    Ex-Informant Who Smeared Bidens, Evaded Tax A 'Flight Risk'

    A former FBI informant won't be released while he appeals his six-year prison sentence for tax evasion and falsely telling federal agents that a Ukrainian energy company paid off President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, a California federal judge ruled, saying he's a "flight risk."

  • May 01, 2025

    Hunter Biden Drops Tax Privacy Case Against IRS

    Hunter Biden dropped his suit against the federal government alleging the unauthorized disclosure of his tax return information by special agents and their attorneys who talked publicly about an investigation that culminated in Biden's copping to criminal tax charges.

  • May 01, 2025

    Nelson Mullins Lands Porter Hedges Tax Pro In Houston

    Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP announced Thursday that it has fortified its tax controversy and litigation team with a partner in Houston who came aboard from Porter Hedges LLP.

  • May 01, 2025

    Taxpayer Advocacy Panel Joint Committee To Meet In May

    The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel's Joint Committee will meet May 22, it announced Thursday, following meetings on customer service improvements for its various subcommittees earlier in the month.

  • April 30, 2025

    House Judiciary Panel OKs Broadening PL 86-272 Protections

    The U.S. House Judiciary Committee advanced legislation on Wednesday that would impose more restrictions on state tax authorities to levy income taxes on out-of-state businesses, approving changes to P.L. 86-272 in the panel's portion of the federal budget reconciliation bill.

  • April 30, 2025

    Senate Rejects Bill To End Trump's Nat'l Emergency On Tariffs

    The U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bipartisan bill Wednesday that sought to end the national emergency declared by President Donald Trump to underpin his global tariff regime, with two senators absent for the vote, and with U.S. House consideration delayed until October.

  • April 30, 2025

    Coinbase Urges Justices To Take User's IRS Data Seizure Suit

    Crypto exchange Coinbase on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to firm up privacy rights around digital information stored with third parties, backing a petition by a Coinbase user who's challenging the Internal Revenue Service's seizure of his account records.

  • April 30, 2025

    IRS Likely To Feel Strain Of Layoffs Now Filing Season's Over

    The IRS's filing season ran relatively smoothly with minimal disruptions to customer service and taxpayer assistance, but the impending loss of a quarter of the agency's employees is already wearing on its workforce and will likely erode customer service, refund processing and institutional knowledge, experts say.

  • April 30, 2025

    IRS Properly Sustained Levy For Taxes, Tax Court Says

    An IRS appeals officer properly sustained a proposed tax levy against a Kansas woman who missed her hearing date and failed to share her financial information with the agency after being accused of failing to file returns for three years, the U.S. Tax Court said Wednesday.

  • April 30, 2025

    Sheppard Mullin Brings On Kirkland Tax Ace In Houston

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Wednesday that it expanded its tax, employee benefits and trusts and estates practice with a new partner most recently with Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

  • April 30, 2025

    DOJ Fights Firm's Bid To Halt Tax Collection During Suit

    A boutique Connecticut consumer protection law firm cannot block the IRS from collecting 2022 and 2023 payroll taxes while the firm challenges the government's alleged failure to process CARES Act payroll credit requests in 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice has argued.

  • April 30, 2025

    Barclay Damon Continues Growth With Morrison Cohen Hire

    Barclay Damon LLP is continuing the momentum its headcount growth made in 2024, announcing Tuesday that it has hired an employee benefits attorney from Morrison Cohen LLP in New York City.

  • April 30, 2025

    Dem Reps. Urge Court To Block IRS-ICE Info-Sharing Pact

    House Democrats and two organizations that help immigrants prepare tax returns urged a D.C. federal court to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing with immigration enforcement agencies the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally.

  • April 30, 2025

    Fried Frank Taps Sidley's UK Tax Head

    The former head of Sidley Austin LLP's U.K. tax practice has joined Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's London office, where he will advise on U.K. and international tax structuring, the firm announced.

  • April 30, 2025

    Ex-Treasury Official Joins Baker McKenzie's Tax Practice

    Baker McKenzie has hired a former deputy assistant secretary at the Treasury Department to work on international tax matters as a partner in the firm's office in Washington, D.C.

  • April 30, 2025

    6 Taxpayer Advocacy Committees To Meet In May

    Six Taxpayer Advocacy Panel committees will meet in May to discuss possible customer service improvements, the Internal Revenue Service said in notices Wednesday.

  • April 30, 2025

    Bipartisan House Members Pitch Expanded Paid Family Leave

    A bipartisan group of House lawmakers unveiled legislation Wednesday that they said would expand access to paid family leave by incentivizing states to establish their own programs and facilitating the exchange of information between state and federal officials.

  • April 29, 2025

    Immigration Ruling No Help To Liberty Global, 10th Circ. Told

    Liberty Global cannot use a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on interpreting ambiguous law in an immigration case to support the company's interpretation of law in its $248 million foreign tax credit claim, the federal government told the Tenth Circuit.

  • April 29, 2025

    Man Sentenced To 4 Years For Pandemic Loan, Tax Fraud

    A man who said he has struggled with substance use for most of his life was sentenced in Arizona federal court Monday to four years in prison for filing more than $7 million in false claims for tax refunds and making false pandemic aid applications.

  • April 29, 2025

    Bessent Says EU Must Kill Digital Taxes For US Trade Deal

    The U.S. government wants European countries to repeal digital service taxes before the European Union moves forward with trade negotiations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday.

  • April 29, 2025

    Trump Can't Reorganize Gov't Without Congress, Groups Say

    President Donald Trump lacks the power to reorganize the executive branch and push for mass terminations of workers when Congress hasn't given its blessing, unions and other groups told a California federal court.

  • April 29, 2025

    Tax Breaks For Offshore Production Could Thwart Tariffs' Goal

    President Donald Trump has said that his wide-ranging tariffs will jump-start domestic industry and production, but an international tax policy created under the 2017 federal overhaul may undermine the goal of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.

  • April 29, 2025

    Par Funding Accountant Cops To Helping Hide $20M From IRS

    A Colorado accountant pled guilty to abetting the former CEO of now-defunct small-business lending firm Par Funding in concealing over $20 million in income from the Internal Revenue Service, prosecutors announced.

  • April 29, 2025

    US Seeks To Toss Case Against IRS Microcaptive Rules

    A global tax services provider cannot sue the IRS to vacate tax reporting rules for microcaptive insurance companies, the U.S. told a Texas federal court, arguing that the provider, as a consultant to clients using the insurers, wouldn't actually be hurt by the rules.

Expert Analysis

  • States Should Loosen Law Firm Ownership Restrictions

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    Despite growing buzz, normalized nonlawyer ownership of law firms is a distant prospect, so the legal community should focus first on liberalizing state restrictions on attorney and firm purchases of practices, which would bolster succession planning and improve access to justice, says Michael Di Gennaro at The Law Practice Exchange.

  • After Chevron: Uniform Tax Law Interpretation Not Guaranteed

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    The loss of Chevron deference will significantly alter the relationship between the IRS, courts and Congress when it comes to tax law, potentially precipitating more transparent rulemaking, but also provoking greater uncertainty due to variability in judicial interpretation, say Michelle Levin and Carneil Wilson at Dentons.

  • Texas Ethics Opinion Flags Hazards Of Unauthorized Practice

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    The Texas Professional Ethics Committee's recently issued proposed opinion finding that in-house counsel providing legal services to the company's clients constitutes the unauthorized practice of law is a valuable clarification given that a UPL violation — a misdemeanor in most states — carries high stakes, say Hilary Gerzhoy and Julienne Pasichow at HWG.

  • How High Court Approached Time Limit On Reg Challenges

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Corner Post v. Federal Reserve Board effectively gives new entities their own personal statute of limitations to challenge rules and regulations, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh's concurrence may portend the court's view that those entities do not need to be directly regulated, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.

  • How To Clean Up Your Generative AI-Produced Legal Drafts

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    As law firms increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence tools to produce legal text, attorneys should be on guard for the overuse of cohesive devices in initial drafts, and consider a few editing pointers to clean up AI’s repetitive and choppy outputs, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.

  • A Tale Of 2 Trump Cases: The Rule Of Law Is A Live Issue

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision this week in Trump v. U.S., holding that former President Donald Trump has broad immunity from prosecution, undercuts the rule of law, while the former president’s New York hush money conviction vindicates it in eight key ways, says David Postel at Henein Hutchison.

  • Industry Self-Regulation Will Shine Post-Chevron

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's Loper decision will shape the contours of industry self-regulation in the years to come, providing opportunities for this often-misunderstood practice, says Eric Reicin at BBB National Programs.

  • 3 Ways Agencies Will Keep Making Law After Chevron

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    The U.S. Supreme Court clearly thinks it has done something big in overturning the Chevron precedent that had given deference to agencies' statutory interpretations, but regulated parties have to consider how agencies retain significant power to shape the law and its meaning, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

  • Atty Well-Being Efforts Ignore Root Causes Of The Problem

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    The legal industry is engaged in a critical conversation about lawyers' mental health, but current attorney well-being programs primarily focus on helping lawyers cope with the stress of excessive workloads, instead of examining whether this work culture is even fundamentally compatible with lawyer well-being, says Jonathan Baum at Avenir Guild.

  • Tracking Implementation Of IRA Programs As Election Nears

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    As the Biden administration races to cement key regulations implementing the Inflation Reduction Act, a number of the law's programs and incentives are at risk of delay or repeal if Republicans retake control of Congress, the White House or both — so stakeholders should closely watch ongoing IRA implementation and guidance, say attorneys at Squire Patton.

  • Unpacking The Circuit Split Over A Federal Atty Fee Rule

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    Federal circuit courts that have addressed Rule 41(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are split as to whether attorney fees are included as part of the costs of a previously dismissed action, so practitioners aiming to recover or avoid fees should tailor arguments to the appropriate court, says Joseph Myles and Lionel Lavenue at Finnegan.

  • Takeaways From Justices' Redemption Insurance Decision

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Connelly v. U.S. examines how to determine the fair market value of shares in a closely held company for estate tax purposes, and clarifies how life insurance held by the company to enable redemption of a decedent’s shares affects that calculation, says Evelyn Haralampu at Burns & Levinson.

  • 6 Tips For Maximizing After-Tax Returns In Private M&A Deals

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    With potential tax legislation likely to spur a surge in private business sales, sellers can make the most of after-tax proceeds with strategies that include price allocation and qualified investment options, say Isaac Grossman and Daniel Studin at Morrison Cohen.

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