Federal

  • December 13, 2024

    Halliburton Consistent On Claims For $35M Refund, Court Told

    Halliburton has not changed its reasons for claiming a tax refund on a $35 million payment it made to a foreign government to protect its employees from harassment, the company told a Texas federal court, saying the U.S. wrongly accused it of a flip-flop.

  • December 13, 2024

    Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Davis Polk, Wachtell

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Google and TPG Rise Climate partner with Intersect Power, Gen Digital Inc. acquires MoneyLion Inc., Patient Square Capital acquires Patterson Companies Inc., and the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins sell minority ownership shares to private equity firms.

  • December 13, 2024

    Contractor Loses Bail For Texting Alleged Tax Cheat Allies

    A District of Columbia federal judge revoked bail for a former defense contractor accused of running a $350 million tax-evasion scheme that prosecutors call one of the largest in U.S. history, after the government said he'd been texting his alleged co-conspirators.

  • December 13, 2024

    Weekly Internal Revenue Bulletin

    The Internal Revenue Service's weekly bulletin, issued Friday, included final regulations for the advanced manufacturing production credit for manufacturing key components and materials used in clean energy technologies.

  • December 13, 2024

    Loper Bright May Influence Tax Less, IRS Chief Counsel Says

    The U.S. Supreme Court decision this year overturning a decades-long standard to defer to federal agencies' regulatory interpretations has encouraged the Internal Revenue Service to better explain its rules, its outgoing chief counsel said Friday.

  • December 12, 2024

    'Housewives' Figure Touts Social Media Posts In Leniency Bid

    Former "Real Housewives of Atlanta" cast member Peter Anthony Thomas asked a North Carolina federal judge on Thursday to give him a prison sentence below federal guidelines for not paying $2.5 million in employment taxes, stating he has used his public platform to encourage his followers to pay their own taxes.

  • December 12, 2024

    Bitcoin Investor Gets 2 Years For Tax Fraud In Landmark Case

    An investor who concealed millions of dollars he earned in bitcoin and became the first person criminally charged for failing to report gains from the sale of cryptocurrency by filing false returns was sentenced to two years in federal prison Thursday.

  • December 12, 2024

    IRS Wants Choice Retained In Dual Loss Rules, Official Says

    The Internal Revenue Service is working to preserve flexibility for taxpayers in rules aimed at preventing companies from using the same economic loss twice after concerns were raised about how the rules could negatively interact with the Pillar Two global minimum tax, an official said Thursday.

  • December 12, 2024

    IRS Seeks Feedback On Limits In Previous Taxed Profit Rules

    The Internal Revenue Service will consider whether rules included in recently proposed guidance on previously taxed earnings and profits to limit instances where U.S. multinationals may use basis to offset gain are too restrictive, an official said Thursday.

  • December 12, 2024

    IRS Chief Makes Case To Restore $20B Funding Shortfall

    Congress should reverse a $20 billion IRS funding gap in a year-end budget bill to help the agency modernize its technology, improve customer service and collect unpaid taxes from wealthy businesses and individuals, Internal Revenue Commissioner Daniel Werfel said Thursday.

  • December 12, 2024

    2nd Circ. Won't Rethink Dual Citizen's FBAR Penalties

    The Second Circuit will not review its September decision finding that a dual U.S.-French citizen is liable for tax penalties for failing to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, the court said Thursday.

  • December 12, 2024

    IRS Expands Business Tax Account Program To Corp. Leaders

    The Internal Revenue Service's business tax account online self-service tool is now available to C corporations, while the agency is opening access to the program to certain officers of both C and S corporations, the agency said Thursday.

  • December 12, 2024

    IRS Hopes To Issue Amount B Pricing Guidance Within Weeks

    Treasury is working to finish its guidance on the simplified transfer pricing approach to baseline marketing and distribution known as Amount B by the end of the year, a U.S. official said Thursday.

  • December 12, 2024

    Ex-FBI Informant Admits To False Accusations In Biden Case

    A former FBI informant accused of making fake criminal accusations against President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, will plead guilty to tax evasion and falsifying records in a federal investigation, according to a deal filed Thursday in a California federal court.

  • December 12, 2024

    Treasury Seeks To Pause Anti-Laundering Law Injunction

    The U.S. Treasury Department asked a Texas federal judge to pause his nationwide preliminary injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act pending an appeal of his recent decision that found Congress likely overstepped its constitutional authority when it wrote the anti-money laundering law.

  • December 12, 2024

    IRS Electronic Tax Committee To Meet In January

    The Internal Revenue Service's Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee will hold its next meeting Jan. 8, the agency said Thursday.

  • December 11, 2024

    Bloomberg Entitled To Use $4B In Receipts For Deductions

    Bloomberg incorrectly allocated gross receipts between software and services related to access to the Bloomberg Terminal, its interactive financial analysis product, but the company ultimately had $4.1 billion in gross receipts that could be used to calculate a deduction for domestic production from 2008 to 2010, the U.S. Tax Court found Wednesday.

  • December 11, 2024

    Temp Agency Owner Gets Prison For $2M Tax Scheme

    A temp agency owner was sentenced to a year and a day in prison after pleading guilty in Massachusetts federal court to paying employees under-the-table wages to avoid $2.1 million in taxes.

  • December 11, 2024

    Tax Preparers Fabricated Expenses, US Says

    Two tax preparers and their company should be barred from owning or operating tax preparation services because they fabricated business income and expenses for clients, the federal government told a Texas federal court.

  • December 11, 2024

    Exxon Tax Ruling Doesn't Help Liberty Global, 10th Circ. Told

    Liberty Global cannot use a recent ruling that allowed Exxon Mobil a tax deduction for interest payments to claim a deduction for dividends that arose from its intragroup shuffling of a Belgian affiliate, the U.S. government told the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday.

  • December 11, 2024

    Beyoncé Fends Off Most Of $3M Tax Bill In Deal With IRS

    Pop star Beyoncé owes only about $700 of what the IRS had claimed was $3 million in outstanding taxes and penalties, according to a U.S. Tax Court ruling Wednesday that approved a settlement between the star and the agency.

  • December 11, 2024

    17M Won't Benefit From Full Child Tax Credit, Report Says

    Roughly 17 million children under 17 — or roughly a quarter of all U.S. children — will live in families that cannot claim the full child tax credit in 2025 because they make too little, the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center said in a report.

  • December 11, 2024

    Judge Orders Home Sale To Pay Down $1.7M Tax Debt

    A California federal judge ordered the private sale of a deceased couple's home to pay down a $700,000 tax bill that has been accruing interest for 20 years and now stands at roughly $1.7 million.

  • December 10, 2024

    FinCEN Says CTA Still Constitutional In Post-Injunction Alert

    The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has alerted companies that they do not currently need to file so-called beneficial ownership information with the agency after a federal judge's nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Corporate Transparency Act, though the bureau maintained that the law calling for such information is constitutional.

  • December 10, 2024

    Morgan Lewis Gets DLA Piper Tax Pro With DOJ Experience

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced that it has added to its Boston office a tax attorney from DLA Piper who served as an appellate attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division.

Expert Analysis

  • The Big Issues A BigLaw Associates' Union Could Address

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    A BigLaw associates’ union could address a number of issues that have the potential to meaningfully improve working conditions, diversity and attorney well-being — from restructured billable hour requirements to origination credit allocation, return-to-office mandates and more, says Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea.

  • It's Time For A BigLaw Associates' Union

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    As BigLaw faces a steady stream of criticism about its employment policies and practices, an associates union could effect real change — and it could start with law students organizing around opposition to recent recruiting trends, says Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea.

  • Why DOJ's Whistleblower Program May Have Limited Impact

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    The U.S. Department of Justice’s new whistleblower pilot program aims to incentivize individuals to report corporate misconduct, but the program's effectiveness may be undercut by its differences from other federal agencies’ whistleblower programs and its interplay with other DOJ policies, say attorneys at Milbank.

  • How Justices Upended The Administrative Procedure Act

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    In its recent Loper Bright, Corner Post and Jarkesy decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally changed the Administrative Procedure Act in ways that undermine Congress and the executive branch, shift power to the judiciary, curtail public and business input, and create great uncertainty, say Alene Taber and Beth Hummer at Hanson Bridgett.

  • Trump's Best Hush Money Appeal Options Still Likely To Fail

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    The two strongest potential arguments former President Donald Trump could raise in appealing his New York hush money conviction seem promising at first, but precedent strongly suggests they will still ultimately fail — though, of course, Trump's unique position could lead to surprising results, says former New York Supreme Court Justice Ethan Greenberg, now at Anderson Kill.

  • Tips For Tax Equity-Tax Credit Transfers That Pass IRS Muster

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    Although the Internal Revenue Service has increased its scrutiny of complex partnership structures, which must demonstrate their economic substance and business purpose, recent cases and IRS guidance together provide a reliable road map for creating legitimate tax equity structures, say Ian Boccaccio and Michael Messina at Ryan Tax.

  • Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Is My Counterclaim Bound To Fall?

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    A Pennsylvania federal court’s recent dismissal of the defendants’ counterclaims in Morgan v. Noss should remind attorneys to avoid the temptation to repackage a claim’s facts and law into a mirror-image counterclaim, as this approach will often result in a waste of time and resources, says Matthew Selmasska at Kaufman Dolowich.

  • 3 Leadership Practices For A More Supportive Firm Culture

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    Traditional leadership styles frequently amplify the inherent pressures of legal work, but a few simple, time-neutral strategies can strengthen the skills and confidence of employees and foster a more collaborative culture, while supporting individual growth and contribution to organizational goals, says Benjamin Grimes at BKG Leadership.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Hyperlinked Documents

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    Recent rulings show that counsel should engage in early discussions with clients regarding the potential of hyperlinked documents in electronically stored information, which will allow for more deliberate negotiation of any agreements regarding the scope of discovery, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Loper Bright Limits Federal Agencies' Ability To Alter Course

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to dismantle Chevron deference also effectively overrules its 2005 decision in National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X, greatly diminishing agencies' ability to change regulatory course from one administration to the next, says Steven Gordon at Holland & Knight.

  • A Guide To Long-Term, Part-Time Employee Determinations

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    With final regulations under the Secure Act requiring 401(k) retirement benefits for long-term, part-time employees expected soon, Amy Sheridan and David Guadagnoli at Sullivan & Worcester look at how the proposed rules would shift the risk-reward calculus on excluding categories of employees, and what plan sponsors would need to consider when designing retirement plans.

  • After Chevron: Delegation Of Authority And Tax Regulators

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    The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service will face higher standards following Loper Bright’s finding that courts should determine whether agency rules meet the best possible interpretation of the tax code, as well as the scope of the authority delegated by Congress, says Edward Froelich at McDermott.

  • Lawyers Can Take Action To Honor The Voting Rights Act

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    As the Voting Rights Act reaches its 59th anniversary Tuesday, it must urgently be reinforced against recent efforts to dismantle voter protections, and lawyers can pitch in immediately by volunteering and taking on pro bono work to directly help safeguard the right to vote, says Anna Chu at We The Action.

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