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  • May 02, 2025

    Glencore Exec Can't Duck Tax On 拢150M In Offshore Shares

    Glencore's former head of oil failed to overturn a finding he was liable for income tax on nearly 拢150 million ($200 million) in share distributions from the Jersey-incorporated company, when an appeals court concluded Friday it was subject to U.K. taxation.

  • May 02, 2025

    IRS Updates Rates For Foreign Insurance Company Equations

    The Internal Revenue Service on Friday published updated domestic asset/liability and yields percentages for 2024 that foreign life insurance companies and foreign property and liability insurance companies need to compute their minimum effectively connected net investment income.

  • May 02, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Goodwin, Haynes Boone

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Merck buys SpringWorks Therapeutics, Novartis AG acquires Regulus Therapeutics Inc., Sabre Corp. sells its Hospitality Solutions business to private equity shop TPG, and TWG Global and Mubadala Capital team up to bolster their investments.

  • May 02, 2025

    Community Groups Accept Pause In CTA Litigation

    A group of community associations has told the Fourth Circuit they aren't opposed to a government motion to pause litigation over the Corporate Transparency Act, even as they maintained the information disclosure law aimed at small businesses still carries constitutional flaws.

  • May 01, 2025

    Irish Tax Appeals Board Closed 鈧355M In Cases In 2024

    Ireland's Tax Appeals Commission closed more than 1,711 appeals cases in 2024, a 12% increase over the year prior and valued at 鈧355 million ($401 million) in taxes, the commission said in a report.

  • May 01, 2025

    Multinationals Grapple With Tariff-Induced Pricing Issues

    President Donald Trump's flurry of tariff actions since taking office has created new questions for multinationals and their transfer pricing tax planners, including how to properly account for cost increases associated with new duties in related party transactions.

  • May 01, 2025

    Trump Picks Tax Controversy Pro For IRS Chief Counsel Spot

    President Donald Trump has tapped a former Internal Revenue Service chief counsel to return to the role, and if he is confirmed, it will represent the second time in his career that the veteran tax controversy professional will be the agency's top attorney.

  • May 01, 2025

    Chilean Digital Platforms Must Show Users' Tax Compliance

    Digital platforms operating in Chile will need to show that those either contracting their services or using them to offer their owns goods and services are tax-compliant starting in 2026, Chile's tax administration said.

  • May 01, 2025

    Canada Looks To Guide Exporters Navigating US Tariffs

    The Canadian government is offering new resources for exporters dealing with what it called unjustified U.S. tariffs, providing information on rules of origin and customs procedures under the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Agreement.

  • May 01, 2025

    Estate Pushes Back On IRS In DC Circ. Lost Records Case

    The estate of a man whose offshore businesses were raided by the IRS, giving rise to a nearly $18 million tax judgment, criticized the agency's effort to rebuff聽the estate's聽claims to the D.C. Circuit that the IRS fraudulently claimed that boxes of evidence in ensuing litigation were lost.

  • May 01, 2025

    Ore. Tax Court Retains Nix Of Microsoft Foreign Income Relief

    The Oregon Tax Court is adhering to its finding on the treatment of Microsoft's repatriated foreign income when calculating its state income, making only minor changes to an earlier order and rejecting the company's arguments for further relief.

  • May 01, 2025

    ECB Says Consumers Ready To Avoid US Goods Over Tariffs

    European consumers are prepared to avoid American goods for the long term, following the impact of tariffs imposed by the U.S. administration, according to a survey by the European Central Bank.

  • May 01, 2025

    BNY Can't Escape A&O Shearman's 拢93M Negligence Claim

    Bank of New York Mellon lost its fight Thursday to escape a claim from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling alleging that the lender caused Nationwide Building Society to face a 拢93 million ($109 million) tax bill by bungling the issuance of notes.

  • April 30, 2025

    Senate Rejects Bill To End Trump's Nat'l Emergency On Tariffs

    The U.S. Senate narrowly rejected聽a bipartisan bill Wednesday that sought to end the national emergency declared by President Donald Trump to underpin his global tariff regime, with two senators absent for the vote, and with U.S. House consideration delayed until October.

  • April 30, 2025

    Workers' Effective Tax Rates In OECD Up Again, But So Is Pay

    While the effective tax rates on labor across the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's 38 member countries on average ticked up for a third year in a row in 2024, average wages were up in all but four countries after dropping over the prior two years, the OECD said Wednesday.

  • April 30, 2025

    US Economy Shrank 0.3% In First Quarter As Imports Surged

    U.S. gross domestic product fell at an annual rate of 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025 as importers stockpiled goods in advance of President Donald Trump's global tariff regime, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced Tuesday.

  • April 30, 2025

    EU Busts $10M VAT Fraud Ring Involving Chinese Imports

    The European Anti-Fraud Office and Polish authorities uncovered a value-added tax fraud ring that exploited European Union rules to dodge over 38.2 million Polish zloty ($10.1 million) in value-added taxes on goods imported from China, they said Wednesday.

  • April 30, 2025

    Morgan Lewis Expands Tax Practice With Milbank Hire

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP added a former Milbank special counsel as a tax partner based in the firm's London office.

  • April 30, 2025

    Dentist Fights HMRC Over Alleged Tax Avoidance

    A dentist's firm urged an appeals court on Wednesday to find that it had not engaged in tax avoidance by making loan payments to its owner through a trust, saying the payments had no connection to its owner's employment and therefore were not taxable as income.

  • April 30, 2025

    Switzerland Begins Consultation On Pillar 2 Return Rules

    The Swiss government said Wednesday that it has begun the consultation process to create compliance rules for a global information return that companies must submit as part of an international minimum corporate tax agreement known as Pillar Two.

  • April 30, 2025

    Sheppard Mullin Brings On Kirkland Tax Ace In Houston

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Wednesday that it expanded its tax, employee benefits and trusts and estates practice with a new partner most recently with Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

  • April 30, 2025

    Dem Reps. Urge Court To Block IRS-ICE Info-Sharing Pact

    House Democrats and two organizations that help immigrants prepare tax returns urged a D.C. federal court to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing with immigration enforcement agencies the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally.

  • April 30, 2025

    Fried Frank Taps Sidley's UK Tax Head

    The former head of Sidley Austin LLP's U.K. tax practice has joined Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's London office, where he will advise on U.K. and international tax structuring, the firm announced.

  • April 30, 2025

    Ex-Treasury Official Joins Baker McKenzie's Tax Practice

    Baker McKenzie has hired a former deputy assistant secretary at the Treasury Department to work on international tax matters as a partner in the firm's office in Washington, D.C.

  • April 30, 2025

    HMRC Should Use AI To Boost Services, Report Says

    鈥嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧婬M Revenue & Customs is still not doing enough to improve its services and should prepare to聽use artificial intelligence to enhance customer service for U.K. taxpayers and increase its productivity, according to a parliamentary report.

Expert Analysis

  • 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 鈥渢rusted adviser鈥 paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient 鈥 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 麻豆传媒.

  • 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鈥檚 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 麻豆传媒s Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of 麻豆传媒s 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 麻豆传媒 Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'

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    麻豆传媒 firm decision making can be stifled by 鈥渃ollaboration drag鈥 鈥 characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent 鈥 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.

  • What NFL Draft Picks Have In Common With Lateral 麻豆传媒 Hires

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    Nearly half of law firm lateral hires leave within a few years 鈥 a failure rate that is strikingly similar to the performance of NFL quarterbacks drafted in the first round 鈥 in part because evaluators focus too heavily on quantifiable metrics and not enough on a prospect's character traits, says Howard Rosenberg at Baretz+Brunelle.

  • Replacing The Stigma Of Menopause With 麻豆传媒 Firm Support

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    A large proportion of the workforce is forced to pull the brakes on their career aspirations because of the taboo surrounding menopause and a lack of consistent support, but law firms can initiate the cultural shift needed by formulating thoughtful workplace policies, says Barbara Hamilton-Bruce at Simmons & Simmons.

  • Planning 麻豆传媒 Firm Content Calendars: What, When, Where

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    During the slower month of August, law firms should begin working on their 2025 content calendars, planning out a content creation and distribution framework that aligns with the firm鈥檚 objectives and maintains audience engagement throughout the year, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.

  • 麻豆传媒 Firms Should Move From Reactive To Proactive Marketing

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    Most law firm marketing and business development teams operate in silos, leading to an ad hoc, reactive approach, but shifting to a culture of proactive planning 鈥 beginning with comprehensive campaigns 鈥 can help firms effectively execute their broader business strategy, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.

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