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French Left's Tax Pledges May Go Unfulfilled

The tax policy pledges put forward by the leftist bloc of parties that won the most seats in France's legislative ... (more story)

IRS Funding At Stake In 2025 Tax Cut Negotiations

Lawmakers are girding for battle over the soon-to-expire individual tax cuts in the 2017 tax law, and IRS funding ... (more story)

Calif. Health Players Back Managed Care Tax Amid Uncertainty

A ballot measure backed by some of the biggest healthcare players in California is designed to protect billions of... (more story)

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IRS Initiative Collected $1B From Millionaires, Treasury Says

The Internal Revenue Service collected more than $1 billion from millionaires with large tax debts through an enforcement initiative against high-income, high-wealth taxpayers who hadn't paid their tax bills, ... (more story)

Ex-VP Of Fla. Aerospace Co. Sentenced To Prison For Fraud

The former vice president of a Miami-based aerospace company was sentenced to just over a year in federal prison after he pled guilty to fraud-related charges in connection to a scheme that involved embezzling... (more story)

Engineer Who Faced Export Charges Cops To Tax Counts

A Chinese-born engineer has pled guilty to two counts of filing a false tax return related to allegations that he and his wife omitted gross income from their tax returns between 2015 and 2019, after Texas fed... (more story)

Chevron's End Won't Affect Cubs Sale Tax Suit, 7th Circ. Told

An anti-abuse rule the IRS is using to push for taxes on gains from Tribune Media Co.'s sale of the Chicago Cubs is not threatened by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the Chevron deference doctrine, a... (more story)

5th Circ. Told 'Pay To Litigate' Rule Doesn't Bar Refund Suit

A couple arguing the IRS failed to apply their tax overpayments to deficiencies claimed by the agency asked the Fifth Circuit to reverse a lower court's dismissal of their suit on the grounds that they hadn't ... (more story)

House Panel OKs Tax Breaks For More Education Expenses

The House Ways and Means Committee sent several education-related tax bills to the full House of Representatives on Tuesday, including legislation that would make additional elementary and secondary school exp... (more story)

Dems Request Special Counsel To Probe Justice Thomas Gifts

Two Democratic senators have asked U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' failure to disclose various gifts receiv... (more story)

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NJ Panel Says Tax Amendment Challenge Had No Real Claim

A New Jersey state appeals court on Wednesday tossed a challenge to an amendment blocking certain appeals from being litigated in the state's tax court, reasoning that parties can still fight tax matters in trial court.

MGM's Suit Against Mich. Tax For Ill. Riverboat Sale Tossed

A Michigan subsidiary of MGM failed a requirement to request an alternative apportionment method before going to court in its challenge of a corporate income tax assessed on gains from its sale of an interest ... (more story)

A&E Overcomes NYC's Rejection Of Debt Deductions

A&E Television Networks may claim a New York City corporate tax deduction for certain debt expenses, a city administrative law judge said in a determination released Wednesday, saying deductions allowed federa... (more story)

NY Judge In Trump Case OKs Narrow Subpoena For Atty

An attorney who told reporters he held an impromptu hallway conversation with a New York state judge in the lead-up to February's $464.6 million civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump must turn over any com... (more story)

Ohio Justice Criticizes Dialysis Co.'s Tax Apportionment Claim

An Ohio Supreme Court justice expressed deep skepticism Tuesday about a dialysis company's arguments that a portion of its receipts from medical services that it provided to Ohio patients should be sourced to other states.

Mich. Property Tax Elimination Fails To Get On 2024 Ballot

A constitutional amendment that would have eliminated Michigan's property taxes will not appear on the 2024 state ballot after its backers failed to submit the signatures needed to qualify, the secretary of st... (more story)

Texas Ethics Opinion Flags Hazards Of Unauthorized Practice

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 valu... (more story)

Ex-NRA Finance Chief Agrees To 10-Year NY Nonprofit Ban

A former chief financial officer of the National Rifle Association has agreed not to serve as a fiduciary of a New York nonprofit for 10 years as part of a settlement in the state attorney general's suit in st... (more story)

NJ Power Broker, Firm CEO Deny Racketeering Charges

Powerful New Jersey businessman George E. Norcross III, his prominent attorney brother and others on Tuesday denied that they schemed to acquire waterfront property in the distressed city of Camden by threaten... (more story)

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Portugal Enacts Pillar 2 As Part Of Economic, Tax Package

Portugal's Council of Ministers approved the minimum tax provision known as Pillar Two in a package of economic and tax measures designed to boost the country's economic growth, the council announced.

HMRC, CPS Beat Financier's Claim Over Botched Prosecution

HM Revenue and Customs and the Crown Prosecution Service have beaten claims of malicious prosecution and misfeasance in public office by a corporate financier following a failed criminal fraud case, with a jud... (more story)

India High Court Says Rights To Sell Liquor Aren't Taxed

The rights to sell the alcoholic beverage arrack are not taxed because the liquor vendors who purchase them do not fit into the definition of "buyer" under Indian tax law, the Supreme Court of India ruled.

After Chevron: Uniform Tax Law Interpretation Not Guaranteed

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 ... (more story)

5 Firms Steer $513M Ryan-Altus Cross-Border Tax Deal

Dallas-based tax services and software provider Ryan said Tuesday it has inked a deal to acquire the property tax business of Altus Group Ltd. for CA$700 million ($513.4 million), enlisting three firms to assi... (more story)

Maltese Case Tests EU Cooperation To Fight VAT Fraud

The case of a Maltese man arrested on suspicion of a key role in Sweden's largest value-added tax fraud illustrates how European countries are trying to boost their imperfect cooperation to combat such fraud, ... (more story)

Mishcon De Reya Adds Blick Rothenberg Partner

Mishcon de Reya has added a former director from Blick Rothenberg to its corporate tax team in London as a partner, the firm announced in a statement.