Federal
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January 07, 2025
Lowenstein Sandler Elects 5-Atty Partner Class For 2025
Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced a class of five new partners for 2025 this week, drawing on attorneys working from New York and New Jersey and bringing expertise in tax law, environmental law, white collar defense and more.
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January 07, 2025
Baker McKenzie Adds Tax Partners In California And New York
Baker McKenzie is fortifying its tax practice by hiring a partner in San Francisco with experience in planning tax positions and handling controversies for technology-driven companies and rehiring another in New York who is skilled at state taxes and journalism.
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January 07, 2025
BankUnited's $40M Tax Refund Bid Too Late, Judge Rules
BankUnited is not owed a nearly $40 million tax refund stemming from losses it incurred when it took over a failed bank because it requested the refund too late, a Florida federal judge ruled Tuesday, agreeing with the U.S. government.
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January 06, 2025
Trump Selects Long Island Judge For EDNY's Top Prosecutor
President-elect Donald Trump, who was born in Queens, has picked a Long Island state court judge to serve as the next U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, according to an announcement made Monday on Truth Social.
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January 06, 2025
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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January 06, 2025
House Speaker Sets April Target For Tax Law Extension Vote
The House of Representatives will send a reconciliation bill to the Senate by the end of April that will include major Republican priorities, including the renewal of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions scheduled to expire at the end of the year, House Speaker Mike Johnson said.
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January 06, 2025
Judge Allows Sale Of Shared Dental Practice To Satisfy Taxes
The federal government can foreclose on a jointly owned dental practice to satisfy the roughly $500,000 tax debt of one of its partners, a New Jersey federal court ruled Monday, rejecting the request of a partner dentist who urged the court to spare his share.
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January 06, 2025
Convicted Atty Who 'Lost Everything' Fights To Keep License
A Philadelphia-based personal injury attorney who was 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 argued Monday he should not permanently lose his ability to practice law in New Jersey.
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January 06, 2025
Tax Whistleblower Urges High Court To Review $690M Claim
A whistleblower is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his claim for up to $690 million as his share of the $2.3 billion recovered through Internal Revenue Service investigations that he said resulted from his cooperation.
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January 06, 2025
Proskauer Adds New Funds Partners In NY, DC
Proskauer Rose LLP announced Monday it has rung in the new year by adding two new partners to its private funds group, with the addition of a tax expert from Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York and a regulatory specialist from the SEC in Washington, D.C.
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January 06, 2025
US Wants More Time To Counter Altria's $106M Tax Refund Bid
Tobacco giant Altria's complaint seeking a $106 million tax refund related to its interests in beverage company Anheuser-Busch requires more research to counter in the event a Virginia federal court decides it can move forward, the U.S. government said in requesting time for potential discovery.
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January 03, 2025
Senate Finance Committee Adds Six New Members
Six lawmakers, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, have joined the Senate Finance Committee for the 119th Congress, Committee Chairman Mike Crapo said in a statement Friday.
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January 03, 2025
Treasury Unveils Flexible Final Regs For Hydrogen Tax Credit
The U.S. Treasury Department released final rules Friday for hydrogen production tax credits that allow fuel produced using nuclear-generated electricity or methane to qualify for the incentive, making the regulations more flexible than what was proposed last year.
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January 03, 2025
Potomac Law Group Adds Longtime Tax Leader From Day Pitney
After an end-of-the-year hiring spree in which Potomac Law Group added four former Rimon PC attorneys, PLG has started 2025 by adding the former leader of Day Pitney's multistate tax practice to its ranks.
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January 03, 2025
Trump Taps Former Hill Staffer For Assistant Tax Policy Role
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped a longtime tax policy lobbyist to serve as the assistant secretary for tax policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during his coming second term.
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January 03, 2025
Prison Delay Denied For Broker In $22M Tax Scheme
An insurance broker sentenced to five years in prison for participating in a $22 million tax scheme must begin serving his term after a North Carolina federal judge on Friday denied him a delay to help his new counsel prepare his appeal.
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January 03, 2025
Weekly Internal Revenue Bulletin
The Internal Revenue Service's weekly bulletin, issued Friday, included an updated start date for when some must start to withdraw the required minimum amount of funds from several types of individual retirement accounts, pushing it back to 2026.
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January 02, 2025
Tax Court Upholds Nix Of $24M Deduction For Easement
A partnership that donated a preservation easement over a building in a historic district is not entitled to a nearly $24 million tax deduction, the U.S. Tax Court affirmed Thursday, saying the building was not listed on the National Register of Historic Places or federally certified.
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January 02, 2025
Retirement Trustee Liable For Fraud Penalty, Tax Court Finds
A trustee and fiduciary of two retirement plans who diverted $5.3 million from the plans for his personal benefit willfully and fraudulently intended to evade tax on his unreported income and is liable for a fraud penalty, the U.S. Tax Court held Thursday.
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January 02, 2025
Crypto Groups Challenge Decentralized Finance Broker Rule
Three cryptocurrency industry groups have teamed up to challenge a final U.S. Treasury Department rule implementing additional reporting requirements for decentralized finance brokers, telling a Texas federal court that the rule is unconstitutional and could destroy the industry.
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January 02, 2025
Republicans Want Yellen To Answer For Chinese Cyberattack
Congressional Republicans want U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to explain how a Chinese state-sponsored entity hacked into Treasury's computer systems and accessed potentially sensitive information.
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January 02, 2025
Feds Ask High Court To Unpause Corporate Transparency Law
The federal government is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a Texas judge's injunction against the Corporate Transparency Act, telling the justices in a new application that the 2021 anti-money laundering law's compliance deadlines should take effect while the Fifth Circuit hears the full case.
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January 02, 2025
Thomson Reuters Bolsters Tax Ops With $600M SafeSend Buy
Thomson Reuters Corp. has acquired SafeSend, a cloud-based provider of technology for tax and accounting professionals, for $600 million in cash, the Toronto-based data and content conglomerate said in a statement Thursday.
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January 02, 2025
IRS, Treasury Float Regs On Excise Taxes For Drugmakers
The IRS and Treasury proposed rules for charging excise taxes to drugmakers that refuse to negotiate drug prices with Medicare under requirements of the 2022 tax and climate law, saying the tax only would apply to manufacturers and importers that initially sell the drugs.
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January 02, 2025
Consolidated Return Regs Revised With Gender-Neutral Terms
The IRS and Treasury finalized rules for companies that file consolidated federal income tax returns, saying the new regulations provide needed modernizations to terminology, including removing gender-specific pronouns.
Expert Analysis
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Tech CEO Tax Ruling A Warning For Forward Contracts
In McKelvey v. Commissioner, the U.S. Tax Court decided that deceased Monster.com founder Andrew McKelvey terminated his underlying obligations when he extended variable prepaid forward contracts, demonstrating why startup founders, early employees and investors should think carefully before amending derivative agreements, say Daren Shaver and Trent Tanzi at Hanson Bridgett.
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4 Legal Ethics Considerations For The New Year
As attorneys and clients reset for a new year, now is a good time to take a step back and review some core ethical issues that attorneys should keep front of mind in 2024, including approaching generative artificial intelligence with caution and care, and avoiding pitfalls in outside counsel guidelines, say attorneys at HWG.
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What The Law Firm Of The Future Will Look Like
As the legal landscape shifts, it’s become increasingly clear that the BigLaw business model must adapt in four key ways to remain viable, from fostering workplace flexibility to embracing technology, say Kevin Henderson and Eric Pacifici at SMB Law Group.
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4 PR Pointers When Your Case Is In The News
Media coverage of new lawsuits exploded last year, demonstrating why defense attorneys should devise a public relations plan that complements their legal strategy, incorporating several objectives to balance ethical obligations and advocacy, say Nathan Burchfiel at Pinkston and Ryan June at Castañeda + Heidelman.
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Unpacking The Proposed Production Tax Credit Regulations
Recently proposed tax regulations for claiming the U.S. clean-energy manufacturers' production credit under Internal Revenue Code Section 45X are less stringent than many had feared but fail to define a fundamental eligibility requirement, say Casey August and Jared Sanders at Morgan Lewis.
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10 Considerations For Litigating A New York Tax Case
While some of New York’s recently adopted corporate tax regulations are likely to face legal challenges, aggrieved taxpayers should answer certain questions before deciding to embark on the tax litigation process, say Cyavash Ahmadi and Jeffrey Friedman at Eversheds Sutherland.
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Charting The Course For Digital Assets In 2024
Although 2023 was a tough year for the digital asset industry, upcoming court decisions, legislation and regulatory action will bring clarity, allowing the industry to expand and evolve, and the government will decide what innovation it will allow without challenge, says Joshua Smeltzer at Gray Reed.
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Law Firm Strategies For Successfully Navigating 2024 Trends
Though law firms face the dual challenge of external and internal pressures as they enter 2024, firms willing to pivot will be able to stand out by adapting to stakeholder needs and reimagining their infrastructure, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants.
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Attorneys' Busiest Times Can Be Business Opportunities
Attorneys who resolve to grow their revenue and client base in 2024 should be careful not to abandon their goals when they get too busy with client work, because these periods of zero bandwidth can actually be a catalyst for future growth, says Amy Drysdale at Alchemy Consulting.
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How Attorneys Can Be More Efficient This Holiday Season
Attorneys should consider a few key tips to speed up their work during the holidays so they can join the festivities — from streamlining the document review process to creating similar folder structures, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Giving The Gov't Drug Patent March-In Authority Is Bad Policy
The Biden administration's recent proposal to allow government seizure of certain taxpayer-funded drug patents is a terrible idea that would negate the benefits of government-funded research, to the detriment of patients and the wider economy, says Wayne Winegarden at Pacific Research Institute.
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How Clients May Use AI To Monitor Attorneys
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly enable clients to monitor and evaluate their counsel’s activities, so attorneys must clearly define the terms of engagement and likewise take advantage of the efficiencies offered by AI, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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The Pop Culture Docket: Judge D'Emic On Moby Grape
The 1968 Moby Grape song "Murder in My Heart for the Judge" tells the tale of a fictional defendant treated with scorn by the judge, illustrating how much the legal system has evolved in the past 50 years, largely due to problem-solving courts and the principles of procedural justice, says Kings County Supreme Court Administrative Judge Matthew D'Emic.