International
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February 04, 2025
US Drops Out Early From UN Global Tax Convention Talks
The U.S. government will no longer participate in United Nations negotiations aimed at drafting a framework convention on international tax cooperation, intends to reject the outcome and welcomes other countries to join in its opposition, a U.S. diplomat said.
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February 04, 2025
Polish Property, Environment Taxes Urged In OECD Survey
Poland could generate much-needed revenue by altering how it assesses property taxes while also adjusting environmental taxes, such as those on vehicle emissions, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in an economic survey Tuesday.
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February 04, 2025
UK Hits Pause On Tax Treaties With Russia, Belarus
The U.K. said Tuesday that it would stop honoring its treaties for the prevention of double taxation with Russia and Belarus in response to those countries suspending participation in the agreements.
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February 03, 2025
Trump Orders Plan For Creating US Sovereign Wealth Fund
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling on the U.S. Department of the Treasury and U.S. Department of Commerce to come up with a plan to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund and said the social media app TikTok could potentially be put in the proposed fund.
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February 03, 2025
UN Tax Pact Should Aim For Unitary Taxation, Economists Say
The United Nations' global tax convention should strengthen the ability of countries to tax nonresident multinational corporate service providers as unitary global entities, standardize withholding taxes on deemed profits and adapt existing model rules for digital services, a group of economists said Monday.
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February 03, 2025
Mining Company Will Challenge Canadian Tax Assessment
A mining company that Venezuela agreed to pay nearly $770 million after an arbitration award for a canceled project said it opposes adjustments that the Canada Revenue Agency proposed last year to include the amount in assessments of the company's tax years.
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February 03, 2025
Norway Looking To Expand Tax Breaks For Mutual Funds
Norwegian mutual funds would be entitled to tax exemptions for dividends generated by companies domiciled outside the European Economic Area under a proposal made by the country's Ministry of Finance, which said the changes are meant to minimize double taxation.
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February 03, 2025
Canada Gets Trump Tariffs Paused After Retaliation Threats
Canada and the U.S. have agreed to pause planned tariffs for at least 30 days while the two countries try to work out an agreement, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump said late Monday afternoon, an announcement that came after Canada floated retaliatory tariffs earlier in the day and said it would rip up a contract with Elon Musk's Starlink.
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February 03, 2025
Indian Budget Would Simplify Transfer Pricing, Cut $11.5B
The Indian government floated a process to streamline the pricing of intercompany cross-border transactions as part of a wide-ranging budget proposal that includes one trillion rupees ($11.5 billion) in tax cuts.
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February 03, 2025
Bermuda Seeks Comments On Min. Tax Enforcement Plans
Bermuda's government is looking for public comments on plans to allow a new corporate tax agency to assess civil penalties against companies that don't comply with the jurisdiction's implementation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's 15% global minimum tax on large corporations.
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February 03, 2025
White & Case Gets Tax Pro From Latham
White & Case LLP has added a former Latham & Watkins LLP senior associate to serve as a partner in its London office, the firm announced.
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February 03, 2025
EPPO Probes Steel Tax Fraud In UK And Germany
The European Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating suspected tax fraud linked to imports of Indian steel into Germany via the U.K. to dodge the European Union's import duties, the office said Monday.
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February 03, 2025
US Tariffs On Mexico And Canada Paused For One Month
President Donald Trump said Monday that he will suspend the imminent 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods entering the U.S. for one month after talking with both countries' leaders.
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January 31, 2025
Supreme Court Eyes Its 'Next Frontier' In FCC Delegation Case
A case about broadband subsidies will give the U.S. Supreme Court the chance to revive a long-dormant separation of powers principle that attorneys say could upend regulations in numerous industries and trigger a power shift that would make last term's shake-up of federal agency authority pale in comparison. And a majority of the court already appears to support its resurrection.
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January 31, 2025
Brexit Five Years On: The Legal Landscape After Europe
Five years after the U.K. formally left the European Union, Law360 looks at how Brexit has changed the legal, regulatory and financial terrain.
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January 31, 2025
UK Cos. See Brexit's Legacy In Steeper Compliance Costs
British companies doing business in the European Union have seen their tax compliance burden rise as the U.K.'s tax rules have moved further away from EU rules in the five years since Brexit, though the largest companies have been able to absorb the costs.
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January 31, 2025
The Tax Angle: TCJA Renewal Cost, ACA Credits, OMB Pick
From a look at the budget impact of renewing the 2017 tax overhaul law to uncertainty surrounding the renewal of Affordable Care Act premium tax credits and the nomination of a new chief of the Office of Management and Budget, here's a peek into a reporter's notebook on a few of the week's developing tax stories.
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January 31, 2025
Akin Hires Tax Pro From Cooley In London
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP announced Friday that a partner at Cooley LLP will join as a tax partner in Akin's London office later in 2025.
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January 31, 2025
Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs Over New BRICS Currency
President Donald Trump has lobbed tariff threats at a new group of countries, saying that he would implement 100% tariffs on members of the so-called BRICS coalition — which includes Brazil, Russia, India and China — if they follow through on plans to create a gold-backed currency as an alternative to the U.S. dollar.
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February 14, 2025
Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2025 editorial advisory boards.
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January 31, 2025
Tax Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's diverse tax practice went from strength to strength this year, from advising well-known companies like Boeing and Discover that inked multibillion-dollar deals to counseling industry leaders in shaking up their sectors, helping it earn a place among the 2024 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.
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January 31, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Cravath, Gibson Dunn, Milbank
In this week's Taxation with Representation, Eversource Energy sells Aquarion Water Co., Diversified Energy Partners acquires oil and gas company Maverick, Lantheus Holdings buys Evergreen Theragnostics, and NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson becomes the majority owner in the Legacy Motor Club racing team.
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January 31, 2025
NZ Looking Into Deferring Employee Share Taxes For Startups
New Zealand's government is seeking input on whether it would be beneficial to allow employees of startups to defer taxes they owe on their shares in the company while the company is still not making money, the country's tax agency said Friday.
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January 31, 2025
Trump Initiates Trade War With 25% Tariffs On Canada, Mexico
President Donald Trump said Saturday he is imposing 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, and a 10% tariff on imports from China, citing the U.S. national security risks associated with illegal drug flows.
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January 31, 2025
Canada Delays Capital Gains Tax Hike Amid Pressure
Canada delayed on Friday a proposed increase to the capital gains inclusion rate on annual gains above CA$250,000 ($174,000) to Jan. 1, 2026, as the government faces suits in addition to politicians' pledges to kill the new rate, which has not been formally passed.
Expert Analysis
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Fishing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Atop the list of ways fishing makes me a better lawyer is the relief it offers from the chronic stress of a demanding caseload, but it has also improved my listening skills and patience, and has served as an exceptional setting for building earnest relationships, says Steven DeGeorge at Robinson Bradshaw.
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A Healthier Legal Industry Starts With Emotional Intelligence
The legal profession has long been plagued by high rates of mental health issues, in part due to attorneys’ early training and broader societal stereotypes — but developing one’s emotional intelligence is one way to foster positive change, collectively and individually, says attorney Esperanza Franco.
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To Make Your Legal Writing Clear, Emulate A Master Chef
To deliver clear and effective written advocacy, lawyers should follow the model of a fine dining chef — seasoning a foundation of pure facts with punchy descriptors, spicing it up with analogies, refining the recipe and trimming the fat — thus catering to a sophisticated audience of decision-makers, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Circuit Judge Writes An Opinion, AI Helps: What Now?
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.
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Trauma-Informed Legal Approaches For Pro Bono Attorneys
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.
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How Attys Can Avoid Pitfalls When Withdrawing From A Case
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.
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Using A Children's Book Approach In Firm Marketing Content
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.
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New Crypto Reporting Will Require Rigorous Recordkeeping
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.
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Exploring An Alternative Model Of Litigation Finance
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.
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A Vision For Economic Clerkships In The Legal System
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.
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A Look At New IRS Rules For Domestically Controlled REITs
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.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Text Message Data
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.
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Don't Use The Same Template For Every Client Alert
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.