International

  • August 06, 2025

    G7's Tax Carveout For US Cos. Raises EU State Aid Questions

    The Group of Seven nations' deal to exclude U.S. companies from Pillar Two minimum tax rules would give those companies a competitive advantage, experts say, prompting questions about the carveout's compatibility with EU state aid rules and whether a viable path exists to challenge the deal.

  • August 06, 2025

    3 Key Foreign Entity Issues In Claiming Clean Energy Credits

    Stricter foreign supply chain and business ownership rules were tacked onto clean energy tax credits that weren't eliminated under the new budget reconciliation law, raising major compliance hurdles that have practitioners eagerly awaiting implementation rules from the U.S. Treasury Department. Here, Law360 outlines key issues the agencies need to address in coming guidance on restrictions targeting projects linked to foreign entities of concern.

  • August 06, 2025

    Japan, Ukraine Update Tax Treaty Rates, Avoidance Rule

    Japan and Ukraine have updated their tax treaty with lower withholding rates for certain shareholders, an anti-avoidance rule and a new time frame used to determine a tax exemption for short-term visitors, the Japanese tax authority said Wednesday.

  • August 05, 2025

    EU Looks To Expand Sectors For Emissions Trading State Aid

    The European Union is looking to expand sectors that are eligible to receive state aid to compensate for increased costs of operation from complying with the bloc's emissions trading system, as well as updating related benchmarks for electricity consumption efficiency, according to a consultation.

  • August 05, 2025

    McGuireWoods Adds Loeb & Loeb Tax Pro In Los Angeles

    McGuireWoods LLP is enhancing its corporate team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Loeb & Loeb LLP tax expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office in Century City.

  • August 05, 2025

    Simpson Thacher Adds Tax, Funds Pro From Dechert

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday that it has continued its growth in the tax and registered funds spaces, welcoming a partner from Dechert LLP to its New York office.

  • August 05, 2025

    Gov'ts Aim For Broad Pledges To Form UN Tax Convention

    Diplomats broadly agreed Tuesday to draft high-level commitments for the U.N. global tax convention and leave the technical details of how to operationalize those commitments to binding protocols that would supplement the convention.

  • August 05, 2025

    Swiss President Hustles To DC To Address 39% Tariff

    Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter traveled Tuesday to Washington, D.C., for trade talks with the White House after Switzerland was hit with a 39% tariff on exports to the United States.

  • August 05, 2025

    Aussie Unions Call For 25% Tax On Millionaires

    The Australian government should impose a 25% tax on people earning more than AU$1 million ($647,000) to reduce inequality, alongside other measures targeting big business, according to a coalition of the country's labor unions.

  • August 04, 2025

    EU Postpones Tariffs To Finalize US Trade Agreement

    The European Union will delay planned trade countermeasures for the next six months, including tariffs on over €93 billion ($107.6 billion) of U.S. goods entering the bloc, as the EU and U.S. work toward implementing the framework trade deal agreed to last week, a spokesperson for the European Commission said Monday.

  • August 04, 2025

    EU Court To Hear Digital Nomad Case Against VAT Rules

    A European Union court will hear the case of an online short-term rental company against the bloc's deemed supplier rules for value-added tax on the grounds that the provisions disadvantage the industry, according to a notice issued Monday.

  • August 04, 2025

    Portugal Pushes Back On EU Tobacco Tax Overhaul

    The Portuguese government opposes a European Union proposal to tax alternatives to cigarettes as heavily as actual cigarettes, to raise the overall rate on such products and to redirect revenue from national-level tobacco taxes to fund the bloc's budget, the government said.

  • August 04, 2025

    Thailand Eyes Tax Credits That Qualify For 15% Minimum Tax

    A Thai government commission has approved amendments to introduce refundable tax credits that qualify as income under the 15% global minimum tax system, including for expenditures on research and development, according to a news release by the Thailand Board of Investment.

  • August 04, 2025

    Pensions Dashboards Could Ease UK Inheritance Tax 'Chaos'

    The government could use new online retirement savings portals to ease the expected chaos around introducing inheritance tax on pension wealth, a professional services company said Monday.

  • August 01, 2025

    New Int'l Tax Rules Heighten Discrimination Worries In States

    The new federal tax law's broader tax base for international income could magnify foreign commerce discrimination concerns that are already present in states that conformed to prior iterations of the federal tax code.

  • August 01, 2025

    ECJ Strikes Down Italy's Tax On Cross-Border Dividends

    The Italian government breached the European Union's double-taxation protections for an Italian bank by taxing the bank's cross-border dividends via two separate levies, the EU's top court ruled Friday.

  • August 01, 2025

    Tax Advisers Call On EU To Modernize Transparency Rules

    The European Union should modernize and simplify its legal framework concerning how tax authorities work together across the bloc, a group of tax advisers recommended Friday, saying businesses' obligations should be clarified.

  • August 01, 2025

    US Prices Set To Rise With 18.3% Average Tariff, Report Says

    Prices of food, vehicles, computers and clothing are expected to rise significantly in the coming years as the median household's income takes a $2,200 hit under the latest assortment of U.S. tariffs, which bring the average rate to 18.3%, a Yale research center said Friday.

  • August 01, 2025

    IRS Adds To List Of Taxable Chemical Substances

    The Internal Revenue Service added 21 chemical substances Friday to its list of those subject to Superfund excise taxes assessed to importers.

  • August 01, 2025

    Ogletree Launches Employment Tax Practice Group

    Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced the launch of a dedicated practice group focused on handling employment tax matters in areas such as compliance, audits and transactions related to payroll obligations.

  • August 01, 2025

    Aussie Gov't Adviser Urges Cash-Flow Tax, Lower Corp. Rate

    Australia should adopt a 5% tax on companies' net cash flow, with full expensing of capital expenditures, while cutting its headline corporate tax rate to 20% from 30% for companies grossing below AU$1 billion ($647 million), an advisory body said.

  • August 01, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Skadden, Wachtell, Latham

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. announce megamerger plans, Palo Alto Networks acquires identity security company CyberArk, Brookfield buys British life insurer Just Group, and Duke Energy sells its Piedmont Natural Gas Tennessee local distribution business to Spire Inc.

  • August 01, 2025

    HMRC Freezes £1.4M In Suspected Money Laundering Assets

    HM Revenue & Customs on Friday secured a freezing order on three properties and a bank account worth a combined £1.4 million ($1.9 million) that it suspects were sourced with the proceeds of money laundering or unregistered money services.

  • July 31, 2025

    White House Unveils New Tariffs On Dozens Of Countries

    President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a slew of new tariffs on nearly 70 countries that range from roughly 10% to 40%, unveiling the tariffs a day before his pause on worldwide "reciprocal" tariffs was set to expire Friday.

  • July 31, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Judges Cast Doubts On Trump Tariff Powers

    Several Federal Circuit judges raised concerns about whether President Donald Trump's tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act override constitutional and congressional authority during oral arguments Thursday in their questions to better understand the extent of the appeals court's review.

Expert Analysis

  • A Look At DOJ's Dropped Case Against Early Crypto Operator

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    The prosecution of an early crypto exchange operator over alleged unlicensed money transmission was recently dropped in Indiana federal court, showcasing that the U.S. Justice Department may be limiting the types of enforcement cases it will bring against digital asset firms, say attorneys at Greenberg Traurig.

  • 8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work

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    Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.

  • Law School's Missed Lessons: Communicating With Clients

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    Law school curricula often overlook client communication procedures, and those who actively teach this crucial facet of the practice can create exceptional client satisfaction and success, says Patrick Hanson at Wiggam Law.

  • Navigating Antitrust Risks When Responding To Tariffs

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    Companies should assess competitive perils, implement compliance safeguards and document independent decision-making as they consider their responses to recent tariff pressures, say attorneys at White & Case.

  • Key Points From HMRC's Tax Reform Proposals

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    Although HM Revenue & Customs’ recent proposals for reform of U.K. transfer pricing and permanent establishment rules align with the latest international consensus, certain amendments may lead to future controversy, say lawyers at Skadden.

  • Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm

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    My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.

  • IRS Should Work With Industry On Microcaptive Regs

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    The IRS should engage with microcaptive insurance owners to develop better regulations on these arrangements or risk the emergence of common law guidance as taxpayers with legitimate programs seek relief in the federal courts, says Dustin Carlson at SRA 831(b) Admin.

  • What To Note As UK Adopts OECD Crypto Disclosure Rules

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    With the U.K.’s recent announcement that it will adopt the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's crypto-asset reporting framework, users and providers will benefit from understanding the context surrounding the decision and the framework's intended goal of clamping down on tax evasion, say lawyers at Brown Rudnick.

  • Senate's 41% Litigation Finance Tax Would Hurt Legal System

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    The Senate’s latest version of the Big Beautiful Bill Act would impose a 41% tax on the litigation finance industry, but the tax is totally disconnected from the concerns it purports to address, and it would set the country back to a time when small plaintiffs had little recourse against big defendants, says Anthony Sebok at Cardozo School of Law.

  • Trade In Limbo: The Legal Storm Reshaping Trump's Tariffs

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    In the final days of May, decisions in two significant court actions upended the tariff and trade landscape, so until the U.S. Supreme Court rules, businesses and supply chains should expect tariffs to remain in place, and for the Trump administration to continue pursuing and enforcing all available trade policies, say attorneys at Ice Miller.

  • Move Beyond Surface-Level Edits To Master Legal Writing

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    Recent instances in which attorneys filed briefs containing artificial intelligence hallucinations offer a stark reminder that effective revision isn’t just about superficial details like grammar — it requires attorneys to critically engage with their writing and analyze their rhetorical choices, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.

  • 9th Circ. Has Muddied Waters Of Article III Pleading Standard

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    District courts in the Ninth Circuit continue to apply a defunct and especially forgiving pleading standard to questions of Article III standing, and the circuit court itself has only perpetuated this confusion — making it an attractive forum for disputes that have no rightful place in federal court, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • How AI May Reshape The Future Of Adjudication

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    As discussed at a recent panel at Texas A&M, artificial intelligence will not erase the human element of adjudication in the next 10 to 20 years, but it will drive efficiencies that spur private arbiters to experiment, lead public courts to evolve and force attorneys to adapt, says Christopher Seck at Squire Patton.

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