International

  • February 21, 2025

    EU Tax Blacklist Needs New Criteria, Tax Pros Say

    The European Union's list of uncooperative tax jurisdictions needs new criteria to tackle the problem of corporate tax avoidance and harmful tax practices, tax campaigners claimed Friday.

  • February 21, 2025

    UK, Andorra Agree To Double-Tax Treaty

    The U.K. and Andorra have reached an agreement on a treaty to prevent double taxation that will go into effect once it is approved by both countries' legislatures, HM Revenue & Customs said Friday.

  • February 21, 2025

    UK Sticks With Inheritance Tax Changes Amid Higher Revenue

    A U.K. budget surplus, reported Friday, indicates that the Labour government shows no sign of compromising with its inheritance tax changes as tax receipts rise despite the implications for middle-class families and farmers.

  • February 20, 2025

    Biz Groups Pan Worldwide Reporting In Md. Tax Package

    Worldwide combined reporting for corporations in Maryland, along with other provisions in a legislative tax proposal, would discourage business investment in the state, business groups told a state House panel Thursday.

  • February 20, 2025

    Bradley Arant Adds Securities, Tax Expert As Partner

    Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP added a former Burr & Forman LLP partner to the firm's tax group and corporate and securities group in its Birmingham, Alabama, office.

  • February 20, 2025

    IRS Worker Layoff Could Hamper Enforcement, Groups Warn

    Congressional Democrats, tax and economic policy groups and an IRS workers union warned Thursday that the termination of thousands of Internal Revenue Service employees that began the same day could threaten the agency's ability to enforce tax laws and hamper taxpayer services amid tax-filing season.

  • February 20, 2025

    Guinea Fends Off Push To Enforce $22M Telecom Award

    A D.C. federal court said it lacked jurisdiction to enforce a $22 million arbitration award against the Republic of Guinea stemming from a system enabling the country to tax international telecommunications traffic, saying the nation wasn't a party to the underlying arbitration agreement.

  • February 20, 2025

    Europol Says Money-Laundering Gang Members Arrested

    European Union law enforcement officials arrested 14 individuals, primarily Russian citizens, whom they accused of laundering money for drug traffickers and other criminal groups, during raids last month in Spain and Portugal, according to a news release.

  • February 20, 2025

    Bilzin Sumberg Adds Ex-KPMG Tax Pro In Miami

    Miami-based Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP announced Thursday that it has hired an experienced tax attorney who previously worked as a managing director with Big 4 accounting firm KPMG as a partner.

  • February 20, 2025

    Swiss Gov't Looks To Extend Tax Data Sharing To Crypto

    The Swiss government is looking to extend the automatic information exchange of tax data to include crypto-asset holdings, treating cryptocurrencies like traditional assets, according to a statement.

  • February 20, 2025

    Third Of Pension Professionals Uncertain About Gov't Policy

    Approximately one in three pension professionals is unclear about the government's priorities for the sector, research by a specialist law firm has suggested, with particular uncertainty over proposals to apply tax to wealth passed on through retirement savings plans.

  • February 19, 2025

    Miller & Chevalier Adds Former IRS Chief Counsel

    Miller & Chevalier Chtd. has found a new co-leader for its tax controversy and litigation practice as it brings aboard the former chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service during President Donald Trump's first term.

  • February 19, 2025

    FinCEN Sets March Deadline For Corporate Transparency Act

    The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network set a new deadline of March 21 for an estimated 32 million small entities to file beneficial ownership reports relating to the Corporate Transparency Act after a Texas federal judge lifted a block on the law's enforcement.

  • February 19, 2025

    McCarter & English Adds Shutts & Bowen Latin America Head

    The former chair of the Shutts & Bowen LLP's Latin America practice group and co-chair of its tax and international law practice group jumped to McCarter & English LLP in Miami, the firm announced Wednesday.

  • February 19, 2025

    Minn. House Bill Seeks Corporate Tax Break On GILTI

    Minnesota would eliminate state corporate taxation of global intangible low-taxed income and boost corporate tax deductions under legislation introduced in the state House.

  • February 18, 2025

    Dems Push Corporate Transparency Act Legitimacy To Courts

    Congress has the authority to establish a nationwide registry of the beneficial owners of legal entities by passing the Corporate Transparency Act, a group of Democratic legislators said in similar amicus briefs filed in appellate courts.

  • February 18, 2025

    DC Court Asked To Block DOGE's Access To Taxpayer Data

    A federal judge should block the U.S. Treasury Department's reported provision of taxpayer data to the Department of Government Efficiency, halt DOGE's access and order its software uninstalled from Treasury systems, unions and advocacy organizations said in a complaint.

  • February 18, 2025

    Goldstein's Overseas Ties Make It 'Easier To Flee,' Judge Says

    U.S. Supreme Court advocate and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein has lost a second attempt to shield his more than $3 million residence in Washington, D.C., from forfeiture in his criminal tax evasion case as a Maryland federal judge ruled Tuesday that he remains a "significant flight risk."

  • February 18, 2025

    EU To Remove Two Countries From Tax Gray List

    The Council of the European Union said Tuesday that it will remove Costa Rica and Curaçao from its secondary list of jurisdictions on its gray list, in danger of being added to the blacklist of countries for harmful tax practices.

  • February 18, 2025

    EU Council Greenlights Digital VAT Exemption Certificates

    The Council of the European Union said it has adopted new rules to enforce digital certificates for companies to declare value-added tax exemptions, the council said Tuesday.

  • February 18, 2025

    Trading Firm Fined £1.7M For Financial Crime Control Failings

    The Financial Conduct Authority said Tuesday it has fined trader Mako Financial Markets Partnership LLP £1.66 million ($2 million) for its failure to have effective controls against financial crime in cum-ex trading.

  • February 17, 2025

    Former Entain Execs Sue Addleshaw For Privileged Docs

    The former chief executive at the predecessor of Entain and the betting giant's former chair have sued Addleshaw Goddard LLP, seeking the release of privileged advice believed to have been turned over to regulators and prosecutors in a major bribery investigation.

  • February 14, 2025

    Ex-Greenberg Traurig Atty Gets 30 Months For Tax Fraud

    A former partner in the Amsterdam office of Greenberg Traurig has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty in New York federal court to helping file a false tax return as part of an alleged ploy to help a famous DJ hide global income from the Internal Revenue Service. 

  • February 14, 2025

    Maine Judge Denies Challenge To Corporate Transparency Act

    A Maine federal judge upheld the Corporate Transparency Act, rejecting one of several challenges across federal courts claiming Congress lacked the power to require companies to disclose their real owners.

  • February 14, 2025

    Corporate Transparency Act Vital For Nat'l Security, Circs. Told

    A nationwide registry of beneficial ownership information is critical to U.S. foreign policy and national security goals, which makes a law aimed at creating one, the Corporate Transparency Act, a valid exercise of congressional authority, groups told the Fourth and Fifth circuits.

Expert Analysis

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • Ruling On Foreign Dividend Break Offers 2 Tax Court Insights

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    In Varian v. Commissioner, the U.S. Tax Court allowed a taxpayer's deduction for dividends from foreign subsidiaries, providing clarity on how the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision may affect challenges to Treasury regulations, and revealing a potential disallowance of foreign tax credits, say attorneys at Davis Polk.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • Navigating A Potpourri Of Possible Transparency Act Pitfalls

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    Despite the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's continued release of guidance for complying with the Corporate Transparency Act, its interpretation remains in flux, making it important for companies to understand potentially problematic areas of ambiguity in the practical application of the law, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

  • How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'

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    Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.

  • Litigation Funding Disclosure Key To Open, Impartial Process

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    Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S. House Representative for Virginia.

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