Federal
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October 15, 2025
11th Circ. Denies Veteran's Appeal Of Bias Suit Dismissal
The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a district court's ruling against a veteran who said he faced disability discrimination, retaliation and a hostile work environment at the IRS after the agency failed to accommodate his request to work from the office during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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October 15, 2025
Tax Court Says Easement Fraud Penalties Don't Require Jury
The U.S. Tax Court refused to throw out civil fraud penalties faced by a partnership accused of overvaluing a conservation easement tax deduction, rejecting the partnership's reliance on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limited federal agencies' authority to impose certain penalties without a jury trial.
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October 15, 2025
NJ Org Selling $189 Shoes Isn't Exempt, Tax Court Says
A New Jersey organization that claimed to help children cannot have tax-exempt status, the U.S. Tax Court said Wednesday, finding it mostly aimed to earn profits, including by selling $189 shoes designed by its founder.
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October 15, 2025
Sabre Says British Airways Must Reimburse For UK Digital Tax
Flight booking giant Sabre sued British Airways over a digital tax bill it says it was required to pay the U.K. on the airline's behalf, claiming the airline was contractually obligated to reimburse Sabre for the expense but has refused.
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October 15, 2025
Morgan Lewis Adds Ex-IRS Special Counsel As DC Partner
A former special counsel at the Internal Revenue Service's chief counsel's office has moved to Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's tax-exempt organizations team, where he'll continue working on issues related to charitable giving groups and other organizations.
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October 15, 2025
Tarter Krinsky Real Estate Chair Sees Office Market 'Normalcy'
Despite lingering economic questions, the office market is starting to reach a state of "normalcy," Tarter Krinsky's real estate leader told Law360 in a recent interview.
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October 15, 2025
NYC Hotel Must Hand Over Tax Credits In Bankruptcy
The owners of a boutique hotel in Brooklyn and its management company must return pandemic-era refundable tax credits that they received as the hotel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a New York bankruptcy judge ruled, saying they had unfairly pocketed the money at the bankruptcy estate's expense.
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October 14, 2025
GOP Bill Would Codify Trump Private Equity 401(k) Order
A Montana Republican lawmaker announced Tuesday the introduction of a bill that would codify President Donald Trump's executive order that aims to make it easier for retirement plans to invest in nontraditional 401(k) assets like private equity and cryptocurrency.
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October 14, 2025
Relief Concerns Grow As Sectoral Tariff Actions Build
Importers' hopes for relief from industrywide tariffs are lagging alongside the trade deals President Donald Trump is trying to broker for some goods, while the administration's accelerated rollout of sectoral levies is also stoking concerns the government may be hamstringing its onshoring goals.
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October 14, 2025
Buy.com Founder's $16M Tax Bill Untimely, 10th Circ. Told
The founder of now-defunct Buy.com is challenging a nearly $16 million tax bill before the Tenth Circuit, arguing that the Internal Revenue Service failed to obtain valid consent to extend the statute of limitations for assessing the levy.
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October 14, 2025
Six Pension Plans Settle In $2.1B Danish Tax Fraud Case
Six pension plans have settled claims by Denmark's tax agency accusing them of participating in a $2.1 billion scheme that fraudulently claimed refunds on tax withheld from stock dividends, with a New York federal court dismissing the allegations Tuesday.
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October 14, 2025
Floridian Must Pay $1.6M After Default Judgment In FBAR Suit
A tax preparer is on the hook for $1.6 million in penalties for foreign bank accounts that he tried to conceal, a Florida federal court found in a default judgment after he failed to respond to the U.S. government's suit.
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October 14, 2025
High Court Says Blackfeet Members Can't Join Tariff Dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a bid by members of the Blackfeet Nation to join its review of suits challenging the legality of President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs, who had argued that their inclusion in the dispute is crucial to protect Indigenous rights under federal law.
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October 14, 2025
Miss. Partnership Challenges $89M Nixed Easement Deduction
A Mississippi partnership is entitled to an $89 million tax deduction for donating a conservation easement that protected land that could have been used for mining, despite the IRS' claim that the partnership failed to prove the gift's value, the partnership told the U.S. Tax Court.
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October 10, 2025
Tax Court Told IRS Miscalculated $21M Bill In Trust Dispute
The Internal Revenue Service made erroneous calculations regarding an Arizona partnership's capital gains and assets related to partnership interests transferred to trusts, the partnership told the U.S. Tax Court as it challenged a $21 million tax bill.
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October 10, 2025
IRS Generally Provided Courteous Phone Service, TIGTA Says
Limited testing of the Internal Revenue Service's telephone calls showed that agency representatives were generally courteous and professional when assisting taxpayers, but there are some areas where the IRS can improve, according to a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report released Friday.
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October 10, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Sullivan, MoFo, Freshfields
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Fifth Third Bancorp acquires Comerica in an all-stock deal, Qualtrics buys experience analytics firm Press Ganey Forsta, and SoftBank buys ABB's robotics division.
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October 10, 2025
Express Scripts Owed Trial In $43M Tax Row, 8th Circ. Told
Express Scripts is entitled to a trial in its $43 million case seeking a tax refund for producing its own software in the U.S., the company told the Eighth Circuit, saying a lower court wrongly made an early decision that "glossed over" the facts of a complex case.
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October 10, 2025
Weekly Internal Revenue Bulletin
The Internal Revenue Service's weekly bulletin, issued Friday, included the withdrawal of a pair of proposed regulations for a narrow set of tax-free corporate separation deals known as spinoffs and a multiyear reporting regime for those transactions.
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October 10, 2025
Baker Botts Adds 2 Tax Pros From Venable In San Francisco
Baker Botts LLP is expanding its West Coast transactional team, bringing in a pair of Venable LLP tax attorneys as partners in its San Francisco office.
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October 09, 2025
GOP Sen. Joins Dems On Bill To Nix Trump's Global Tariffs
Several Senate Democrats and one Republican introduced legislation Thursday to eliminate the national emergency associated with President Donald Trump's so-called reciprocal tariff regime.
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October 09, 2025
IRS Sets Inflation-Adjusted Rates For Qualified Biz Income
The IRS adjusted a bevy of tax provisions for 2026 in response to the passage of this summer's budget reconciliation bill, including the maximum capital gains rate and the qualified business income deduction.
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October 09, 2025
Bulgarian Says US Delay On Sanctions Decision Harming Him
A Bulgarian businessman whose U.S. assets were frozen after the federal government accused him of bribery and tax evasion asked a D.C. federal court to force the U.S. to rule on his administrative challenge to the allegations, saying a delay has hurt his reputation and livelihood.
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October 08, 2025
Trump Tariffs Unconstitutional, Watchdog Tells Justices
Either President Donald Trump doesn't have authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or the law is unconstitutional, the nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog told the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, urging the justices to affirm lower court rulings deeming those measures unlawful.
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October 08, 2025
3rd Time's The Charm? The Tax Court's Odyssey In Medtronic
A U.S. Tax Court judge has been sent back to the drawing board once again in the long-running transfer pricing litigation brought by Medtronic, raising questions about how much weight the court must give to IRS transfer pricing regulations and how much authority it has to go its own way.
'Bitcoin Jesus' Paid $50M In Tax Deal, US Says
The U.S. asked a California federal court Tuesday to dismiss its criminal tax case against a cryptocurrency investor known as Bitcoin Jesus, disclosing that he has paid the $50 million he owed for hiding bitcoin from the IRS after renouncing his U.S. citizenship more than a decade ago.
The Tax Angle: IRS Leadership Changes Amid Gov't Shutdown
The federal government shutdown doesn't appear any closer to being resolved on Capitol Hill, but that hasn't stopped the U.S. Treasury Department from pushing ahead with a dizzying amount of changes in the Internal Revenue Service's top leadership. Here's a rundown of changes at the IRS in the past week.
Hospice Co. Can't Get $450K In Deductions, Tax Court Affirms
A California-based hospice company was correctly denied $450,000 in tax deductions, the U.S. Tax Court decided Thursday, saying most of the tax breaks were not substantiated as required.
'Bitcoin Jesus' Paid $50M In Tax Deal, US Says
The U.S. asked a California federal court Tuesday to dismiss its criminal tax case against a cryptocurrency investor known as Bitcoin Jesus, disclosing that he has paid the $50 million he owed for hiding bitcoin from the IRS after renouncing his U.S. citizenship more than a decade ago.
The Tax Angle: IRS Leadership Changes Amid Gov't Shutdown
The federal government shutdown doesn't appear any closer to being resolved on Capitol Hill, but that hasn't stopped the U.S. Treasury Department from pushing ahead with a dizzying amount of changes in the Internal Revenue Service's top leadership. Here's a rundown of changes at the IRS in the past week.
Hospice Co. Can't Get $450K In Deductions, Tax Court Affirms
A California-based hospice company was correctly denied $450,000 in tax deductions, the U.S. Tax Court decided Thursday, saying most of the tax breaks were not substantiated as required.
Featured Stories
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Tarter Krinsky Real Estate Chair Sees Office Market 'Normalcy'
Despite lingering economic questions, the office market is starting to reach a state of "normalcy," Tarter Krinsky's real estate leader told Law360 in a recent interview.
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Relief Concerns Grow As Sectoral Tariff Actions Build
Importers' hopes for relief from industrywide tariffs are lagging alongside the trade deals President Donald Trump is trying to broker for some goods, while the administration's accelerated rollout of sectoral levies is also stoking concerns the government may be hamstringing its onshoring goals.
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The Tax Angle: IRS Leadership Changes Amid Gov't Shutdown
The federal government shutdown doesn't appear any closer to being resolved on Capitol Hill, but that hasn't stopped the U.S. Treasury Department from pushing ahead with a dizzying amount of changes in the Internal Revenue Service's top leadership. Here's a rundown of changes at the IRS in the past week.
Expert Analysis
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Adapting To Private Practice: 3 Tips On Finding The Right Job
After 23 years as a state and federal prosecutor, when I contemplated moving to a law firm, practicing solo or going in-house, I found there's a critical first step — deep self-reflection on what you truly want to do and where your strengths lie, says Rachael Jones at McKool Smith.
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Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.
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Compliance Pointers Amid Domestic Terrorism Clampdown
A recent presidential memorandum marks a shift in federal domestic-terrorism enforcement that should prompt nonprofits to enhance diligence related to grantees, vendors and events, and financial institutions to shore up their internal resources for increased suspicious-activity monitoring and reporting obligations, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Trump Tax Law Has Mixed Impacts On Commercial Real Estate
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act brings sweeping changes to the real estate industry — and while the permanency of opportunity zones and bonus depreciation creates predictability for some taxpayers, sunsetting incentives for renewable energy projects will leave others with hard choices, says Jordan Metzger at Cole Schotz.
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Protecting Sensitive Court Filings After Recent Cyber Breach
In the wake of a recent cyberattack on federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system, civil litigants should consider seeking enhanced protections for sensitive materials filed under seal to mitigate the risk of unauthorized exposure, say attorneys at Redgrave.
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What Ethics Rules Say On Atty Discipline For Online Speech
Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.
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2 Rulings Highlight IRS' Uncertain Civil Fraud Penalty Powers
Conflicting decisions from the U.S. Tax Court and the Northern District of Texas that hinge on whether the IRS can administratively assert civil fraud penalties since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in SEC v. Jarkesy provide both opportunities and potential pitfalls for taxpayers, says Michael Landman at Bird Marella.
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Junior Attys Must Beware Of 5 Common Legal Brief Mistakes
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Junior law firm associates must be careful to avoid five common pitfalls when drafting legal briefs — from including every possible argument to not developing a theme — to build the reputation of a sought-after litigator, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.
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Digital Asset Report Opens Doors For Banks, But Risks Linger
A recent report from a White House working group discussing digital asset market structure signals how banks may elect to expand into digital asset custody, trading and related services in the years ahead, but the road remains layered with challenges, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.
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Power To The Paralegals: How And Why Training Must Evolve
Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.
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5 Real Estate Takeaways From Trump's Sweeping Tax Law
Changes to the Internal Revenue Code included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will have a range of effects on real estate sponsors, investors and real estate investment trusts — from more compliance flexibility around taxable REIT subsidiary limits to new considerations raised by a key retaliatory tax provision that was left out, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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Evaluating The Current State Of Trump's Tariff Deals
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As the Trump administration's ambitious tariff effort rolls into its ninth month, and many deals lack the details necessary to provide trade market certainty, attorneys at Adams & Reese examine where things stand.
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How Hyperlinks Are Changing E-Discovery Responsibilities
A recent e-discovery dispute over hyperlinked data in Hubbard v. Crow shows how courts have increasingly broadened the definition of control to account for cloud-based evidence, and why organizations must rethink preservation practices to avoid spoliation risks, says Bree Murphy at Exterro.