International

  • October 09, 2024

    Starmer Refuses To Rule Out Payroll Tax Hike

    Prime Minister Keir Starmer didn't rule out raising employers' National Insurance contributions, a payroll tax used to fund healthcare and state pensions, during Wednesday's question time.

  • October 09, 2024

    Election Uncertainty Hampers Companies' Tax Planning

    With the November election approaching, businesses are bracing for the potential impact of two very different sets of tax policies, with the resulting uncertainty making long-term tax planning increasingly difficult.

  • October 09, 2024

    Australia Seeking Large Cos.'s Tax Execs For Advisory Board

    The Australian Taxation Office is looking for executives in charge of taxes for the country's largest businesses to join an advisory group focused on improving the Australian taxation systems, the ATO said Wednesday.

  • October 09, 2024

    Final Treasury Rules Shut Off Inclusion For Repatriated IP

    The U.S. Treasury Department adopted final rules Wednesday that shut off an annual income inclusion associated with intangibles for companies in certain situations that have transferred intellectual property back to the U.S. from overseas.

  • October 09, 2024

    Gov't Warned Over National Insurance Levy On Pensions

    About half of U.K. employers would scale back the amount they pay into staff pensions to regulatory minimums if a new tax was applied to contributions, according to a survey by a trade group published Wednesday.

  • October 08, 2024

    Germany May Offer Tax Break For 'E-Fuel' Cars, Ministry Says

    The German government will consider a motor vehicle tax exemption for cars running only on fuels manufactured with renewable energy, known as e-fuels-only vehicles, the German Ministry of Finance announced Tuesday.

  • October 08, 2024

    China Pushes Back On Turkish EV Tariffs, Targets EU Brandy

    China said Tuesday that it is appealing to the World Trade Organization to halt Turkish tariffs on electric and hybrid vehicles made in the country, and it announced a temporary anti-dumping measure on European Union brandy that follows the bloc's own EV tariffs.

  • October 08, 2024

    Tire Seller Counts As Importer, Owes $2M Tax, 5th Circ. Says

    A Houston truck sales company owes nearly $2 million in excise taxes because it qualifies as the importer of tires that it bought from a Chinese manufacturer, the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday in overturning the decision of a Texas federal judge.

  • October 08, 2024

    Loss Rule Carveouts Raise Challenges In Pillar 2, Official Says

    An IRS official flagged administrability concerns Tuesday with potential safe harbors that would, in some cases, carve out an international minimum tax agreement from interacting with long-standing domestic rules aimed at preventing companies from using the same economic loss twice.

  • October 08, 2024

    Australia Makes Additional Changes To Tax Pro Conduct Code

    After industry pushback, delays and further tweaks, Australia's minister for financial services signed into law Tuesday further amendments to the nation's tax professional code of conduct as part of the country's reaction to the PwC document leak scandal.

  • October 08, 2024

    Eversheds Recruits Tax Disputes Partner From RPC

    Eversheds Sutherland announced it has added a regulatory and tax disputes partner to its London office from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP.

  • October 08, 2024

    UK Gov't Should Impose Exit Tax, Economists Say

    The U.K. should follow the example of Australia and Canada and enact a tax on business owners leaving the country, according to a report published Tuesday by a research group.

  • October 08, 2024

    EU Removes Antigua And Barbuda From Tax Blacklist

    The Council of the European Union removed Antigua and Barbuda from its blacklist of noncooperation jurisdictions on global tax standards, the EU's Economic and Financial Affairs Council announced Tuesday.

  • October 08, 2024

    Gov't Urged To Commit To Pension Tax 'Lock' In Budget

    The government must commit to a long-term pact on pension tax policy, experts said, warning that prolonged uncertainty is damaging consumer confidence.

  • October 07, 2024

    Justices Won't Hear Man's FBAR Constitutionality Challenge

    The U.S. Supreme Court let stand Monday a Seventh Circuit decision dismissing a man's challenge to the constitutionality of the Bank Secrecy Act's requirement to report his foreign bank accounts, effectively ending the man's claim that the filings were an invasion of privacy.

  • October 07, 2024

    Jury Finds Professor Hid Foreign Bank Accounts

    An 86-year-old former college professor faces more than $500,000 plus interest in penalties after a jury found that he had deliberately failed to report his foreign bank accounts in Switzerland and Turkey, according to documents filed in a California federal court.

  • October 07, 2024

    Man Who Faced Espionage Case Gets Probation Over Taxes

    A Chinese engineer initially accused of illegally exporting documents on military aircraft to China was given probation and fined for failing to report about $1.4 million in business income by a Texas federal court after the government dropped its export charges.

  • October 07, 2024

    Singapore Seeks Comments On Min. Tax Safe Harbor Rules

    Singapore is looking for feedback on proposed safe harbor and transition rules that would complement its coming implementation of the OECD's Pillar Two global minimum tax on large multinational corporations, its revenue authority said.

  • October 07, 2024

    Norway's Gov't Looking To Close Exit Tax Loophole

    Norway's government said Monday that it is looking to close a loophole by adjusting its exit tax rules, though the tightening on when the tax must be paid would be paired with a 500% increase of the threshold for when the tax becomes applicable.

  • October 07, 2024

    Corp. Tactics May Call For Rethinking Tax Breaks, Paper Says

    Countries may want to look at scaling back corporate tax breaks to address tax planning opportunities taken advantage of by businesses over the past 20 years while those tax breaks have proliferated, according to a working paper published Monday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

  • October 07, 2024

    India Seeking Feedback On Income Tax Regime

    India's government said Monday it is undergoing what it called a comprehensive review of its income tax regime in hopes of reducing litigation and increasing taxpayer certainty.

  • October 07, 2024

    TCJA Extension, Biz Tax Cut To Reward Top 5%, Report Says

    Former President Donald Trump's planned extension of the 2017 tax cuts and lowering of corporate rates contribute most among his platform to lowering taxes for the wealthiest 5% and hiking them for everyone else, the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy said Monday in a report.

  • October 05, 2024

    Biz Owners Saved £1.3B On Inheritance Tax, Report Says

    Business owners have saved their families an estimated £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) last year by claiming business property relief on inheritance tax, according to law firm TWM Solicitors.

  • October 04, 2024

    DC Circ. Won't Reconsider Whistleblower's $690M Claim

    The D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected a whistleblower's request that it rehear a ruling upholding the denial of up to $690 million, or 30%, of the $2.3 billion collected in an Internal Revenue Service offshore voluntary disclosure program.

  • October 04, 2024

    Promise Of OECD's Payments Tax Treaty Called Into Question

    The OECD-designed tool to provide developing countries with better means to apply a minimum tax on income sent from their jurisdictions to low-taxed entities within a corporate group is inadequate to address those countries' revenue needs, tax policy organizations said.

Expert Analysis

  • Requiring Leave To File Amicus Briefs Is A Bad Idea

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    A proposal to amend the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure that would require parties to get court permission before filing federal amicus briefs would eliminate the long-standing practice of consent filing and thereby make the process less open and democratic, says Lawrence Ebner at the Atlantic Legal Foundation and DRI Center.

  • 4 Ways To Motivate Junior Attorneys To Bring Their Best

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    As Gen Z and younger millennial attorneys increasingly express dissatisfaction with their work and head for the exits, the lawyers who manage them must understand and attend to their needs and priorities to boost engagement and increase retention, says Stacey Schwartz at Katten.

  • Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs

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    Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.

  • Stay Interviews Are Key To Retaining Legal Talent

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    Even as the economy shifts and layoffs continue, law firms still want to retain their top attorneys, and so-called stay interviews — informal conversations with employees to identify potential issues before they lead to turnover — can be a crucial tool for improving retention and morale, say Tina Cohen Nicol and Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey.

  • Neb. Justices Should Weigh IRC Terms In Dividend Tax Case

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    Nebraska’s highest court, which will hear oral arguments in Precision CastParts v. Department of Revenue on April 1, should recognize that the Internal Revenue Code provides key clues to defining “dividends received or deemed to be received,” and therefore limits Nebraska’s tax on foreign-sourced corporate income, says Joseph Schmidt at Ryan.

  • Judicial Independence Is Imperative This Election Year

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    As the next election nears, the judges involved in the upcoming trials against former President Donald Trump increasingly face political pressures and threats of violence — revealing the urgent need to safeguard judicial independence and uphold the rule of law, says Benes Aldana at the National Judicial College.

  • Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents

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    Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.

  • What Recent Study Shows About AI's Promise For Legal Tasks

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    Amid both skepticism and excitement about the promise of generative artificial intelligence in legal contexts, the first randomized controlled trial studying its impact on basic lawyering tasks shows mixed but promising results, and underscores the need for attorneys to proactively engage with AI, says Daniel Schwarcz at University of Minnesota Law School.

  • How FinCEN Proposal Expands RE Transaction Obligations

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    Against a regulatory backdrop foreshadowing anti-money laundering efforts in the real estate sector, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's proposed rule significantly expands reporting requirements for certain nonfinanced residential real estate transfers and necessitates careful review, say attorneys at Fried Frank.

  • Litigation Inspiration: A Source Of Untapped Fulfillment

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    As increasing numbers of attorneys struggle with stress and mental health issues, business litigators can find protection against burnout by remembering their important role in society — because fulfillment in one’s work isn’t just reserved for public interest lawyers, say Bennett Rawicki and Peter Bigelow at Hilgers Graben.

  • Unpacking FinCEN's Proposed Real Estate Transaction Rule

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    Phil Jelsma and Ulrick Matsunaga at Crosbie Gliner take a close look at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's recently proposed rulemaking — which mandates new disclosures for professionals involved in all-cash real estate deals — and discuss best next steps for the broad range of businesses that could be affected.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: Forget Everything You Know About IRAC

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    The mode of legal reasoning most students learn in law school, often called “Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion,” or IRAC, erroneously frames analysis as a separate, discrete step, resulting in disorganized briefs and untold obfuscation — but the fix is pretty simple, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • How New EU Tax And Transfer Pricing Rules May Affect M&A

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    Companies involved in mergers and acquisitions may need to adjust fiscal due diligence procedures to ensure they consider potential far-reaching effects of newly implemented transfer pricing measures, such as newly implemented global minimum tax and European Union anti-tax avoidance directives and proposals, says Patrick Tijhuis at BDO.

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