International
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May 08, 2025
Trump, Starmer Announce Limited Deal To Cut Tariffs
The U.S. and U.K. governments have agreed to reduce tariffs and avoid counter-tariffs in a limited trade deal announced Thursday by President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
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May 07, 2025
China Economic Official To Ask US For U-Turn On Tariffs
China's top economic official will ask the U.S. to reverse course on its tariffs while meeting with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer this weekend in Switzerland, China's Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday.
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May 07, 2025
Woman Settles FBAR Case Over Russian, French Accounts
A Rhode Island woman has resolved a case by the government alleging that she failed to disclose her Russian and French bank accounts, agreeing to a penalty of almost $89,000 plus interest and late payment penalties.
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May 07, 2025
Greece Referred To EU Court For Car Taxation Violation
The European Commission referred Greece to the Court of Justice of the European Union on Tuesday for noncompliance with the bloc's rules regarding car taxation while also sending Sweden to the court over not bringing its income tax laws in line with EU standards.
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May 07, 2025
Don't Scrap US-China Tax Treaty, Biz Groups Tell Treasury
Business lobbying groups have urged the U.S. Treasury Department to reject the White House's plans to scrutinize the U.S.-China tax treaty, warning that scrapping the accord would lead to higher Chinese taxes on U.S. companies.
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May 07, 2025
HMRC Can Deny Tax Offset Extension With Case Open
HM Revenue & Customs can deny a tax offset of almost £825,000 ($1.1 million) that a group of heating and cooling companies claimed long after the two-year time limit expired even though the case remains open, Britain's Upper Tribunal ruled.
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May 07, 2025
UK Supreme Court Boosts Creditor Protection In Fraud Cases
Britain's highest court has handed administrators more power to pursue businesses that turn a blind eye to fraud, with a ruling on Wednesday that will bolster protection for creditors and could raise the stakes for companies flying too close to the wind, lawyers say.
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May 07, 2025
EU OKs €5.4B Italian Tax Breaks For Shipping Industry
The European Commission approved Italy's €5.4 billion ($6.1 billion) state aid system that will give tax breaks to ships that register in Europe and comply with environmental and safety standards, it announced Wednesday.
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May 07, 2025
Consultant Disputes Golf Retailer's VAT Invoice Claim
A former consultant to a U.K. golf retailer on Wednesday disputed the company's allegations in London court that he overcharged it nearly $1 million and failed to pay value-added tax to HM Revenue & Customs.
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May 07, 2025
Top UK Court Expands Fraud Liability In Carbon Credits Case
Britain's highest court ruled Wednesday that a major brokerage firm can be held liable for millions of pounds owed to Britain's tax collector from a carbon credits tax fraud, a decision that could expand the reach of insolvency proceedings.
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May 06, 2025
Tax Reforms Can Be Key To Ukraine's Stability, OECD Says
Ukraine has remained resilient during the war with Russia, but changes to its tax regime, including reducing compliance burdens and working to narrow some exemptions and reduced rates, could help establish fiscal stability, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday.
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May 06, 2025
EU Tax Committee Looking To Streamline Avoidance Measures
A European Commission tax subcommittee is considering ways to simplify the European Union's various measures aimed at preventing corporate tax avoidance, the subcommittee said ahead of a public hearing on the topic next week.
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May 06, 2025
Actor Voight, Film Biz Adviser To Trump, Floats Tax Incentives
Actor Jon Voight, whom President Donald Trump tapped as an adviser on the Hollywood film industry, told Trump that tax incentives, international treaties and limited tariffs could revitalize production, while California Gov. Gavin Newsom separately floated a $7.5 billion federal film tax credit, according to statements shared Tuesday with Âé¶¹´«Ã½360.
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May 06, 2025
Stationery Co. Fights Bid To Move Tariff Case To Trade Court
The U.S. Court of International Trade does not have exclusive jurisdiction to hear disputes over President Donald Trump's global tariffs, a stationery company told a Florida federal court Monday in opposing the administration's bid to transfer to the suit.
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May 06, 2025
Eversheds Sutherland Brings On EY Tax Pro In Atlanta
Eversheds Sutherland has added a former EY senior manager of international tax and transaction services to its Atlanta office, further strengthening its tax practice after adding a dozen tax controversy attorneys from Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry PC in March, the firm announced Tuesday.
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May 06, 2025
EU Must Not Go Protectionist, Council President Says
The European Union "must not respond to protectionism with more protectionism," the bloc's council president warned Tuesday, while stressing the need to look after European interests.
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May 06, 2025
Money Laundering Surges To £377M In UK Amid Fall In Fraud
Money laundering was the biggest source of fraud and economic crime by value in the U.K. in 2024, with the average value of individual cases increasing 10-fold compared with 2023, a professional services firm reported Tuesday.
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May 05, 2025
Credit Suisse To Pay Feds $510.6M For Helping Hide Assets
Credit Suisse Services AG has agreed to shell out more than $510 million under agreements with federal prosecutors in which the company admitted to helping customers hide more than $4 billion from the IRS in hundreds of offshore accounts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.
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May 05, 2025
Trump Seeks 100% Tariff On Foreign-Made Movies
President Donald Trump asked his administration to place a 100% tariff on foreign-made movies, with a spokesperson telling Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 on Monday that a final decision on the plan hadn't been made.
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May 05, 2025
EU Prosecutors Expand Jurisdiction To Poland, Sweden
The European Public Prosecutor's Office's jurisdiction expanded to include Poland and Sweden with the swearing-in of prosecutors to represent both countries, the EPPO said Monday.
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May 05, 2025
Trump Admin Defends Tariff Power In Toy-Makers' Challenge
President Donald Trump's administration urged a D.C. federal court to deny a request by toy companies to halt global tariffs, arguing the government is authorized to impose trade measures under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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May 05, 2025
Clifford Chance Adds Paul Weiss Exec Compensation Atty In NY
Clifford Chance LLP has added a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP transactional attorney in New York as co-chair of its U.S. executive compensation practice, the firm announced Monday.
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May 05, 2025
Co. Urges Ending IRS Cost-Sharing Rule After Justices' Ruling
A controversial rule requiring U.S. companies to include employee stock-based compensation in cost-sharing agreements with offshore affiliates should be scrapped following the U.S. Supreme Court's revocation of required judicial deference to agencies, a drug distributor told a Texas federal court in seeking a nearly $10 million tax refund.
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May 05, 2025
Novelist Owes $715K In FBAR Penalties, US Says
A Japanese author with U.S. citizenship faces penalties exceeding $715,000 for failing to report accounts she held at a Swiss bank, the U.S. government told a California federal court.
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May 02, 2025
UK Customs Co. Liable For £1.1M VAT Bill, Tribunal Says
A U.K. company responsible for getting goods through customs must split a £1.1 million ($1.3 million) value-added tax bill that an importer deferred before going out of business, the First-tier Tribunal ruled.
Expert Analysis
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Use The Right Kind Of Feedback To Help Gen Z Attorneys
Generation Z associates bring unique perspectives and expectations to the workplace, so it’s imperative that supervising attorneys adapt their feedback approach in order to help young lawyers learn and grow — which is good for law firms, too, says Rachael Bosch at Fringe Professional Development.
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Congress Can And Must Enact A Supreme Court Ethics Code
As public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court dips to historic lows following reports raising conflict of interest concerns, Congress must exercise its constitutional power to enact a mandatory and enforceable code of ethics for the high court, says Muhammad Faridi, president of the New York City Bar Association.
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What To Make Of Dueling Corporate Transparency Act Rulings
Although challenges to the Corporate Transparency Act abound — as highlighted by recent federal court decisions from Alabama and Oregon taking opposite positions on its constitutionality — the act is still law, so companies should comply with their filing requirements or face the potential consequences, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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The Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan
Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.
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State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape
Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Group.
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8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney
A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.
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This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process
In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys
Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.
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The Trade And Tax Issues Behind US-Canada Digital Tax Clash
The new Canadian digital services tax recently went into effect despite objections from the U.S., a controversy that represents an unusual mix of trade and tax policy, and many companies have been pondering how it will affect their e-commerce businesses, says Damon Pike at BDO.
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Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession
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.
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AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys
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.
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Ruling On Foreign Dividend Break Offers 2 Tax Court Insights
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.
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Why Now Is The Time For Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firms To Hire Lateral Partners
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.