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Remote Work Challenges After New York Tax Appeals Tribunal Upholds Income Tax “Convenience Rule”

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In an opinion issued on May 15, 2025, the State of New York Tax Appeals Tribunal, the highest administrative forum for state tax appeals, upheld the application of the state’s income tax “convenience rule” imposing New York...more

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Recevabilité des correspondances entre un avocat et son client

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Le Conseil d'État réaffirme l’impossibilité pour l’administration fiscale de se fonder sur des correspondances entre un avocat et son client dans le cadre de procédures de redressement, tout en précisant que cette...more

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Supreme Court Gives IRS Ability to Levy Taxpayers Without Tax Court Challenge

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In a pivotal ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 12, 2025, held that the U.S. Tax Court lacks jurisdiction to hear a taxpayer’s Collection Due Process appeal under IRC § 6330 once the IRS can no longer pursue a levy,...more

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UK Tax Round Up - May 2025

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Welcome to the May edition of our UK Tax Round Up, which discusses two interesting judgments, one on the question of whether a distribution from a Jersey company was of a “capital nature” and the other on whether a loan to a...more

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Why You Need a Lawyer for an IRS Audit

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Why do you need a lawyer for an IRS audit? Have you received an IRS audit notification (IRS form letter 2205-A, 2205-B, or 566)? What do you need to know?...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

YA Global Brings its Fight to the Appellate Level

On April 28, YA Global Investments, LP (“YA Global”) filed an appeal in the 3rd Circuit, contesting the Tax Court’s decision in YA Global Investments, LP v. Commissioner. In YA Global Investments, the court found that YA...more

Morgan Lewis

Düsseldorf Fiscal Court: Legal and Consulting Fees for Sale of Second-Tier Subsidiary Fully Deductible Irrespective of an Existing...

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In its decision dated February 26, 2025 (7 K 1811/21 K), the Düsseldorf Fiscal Court concluded that legal and consulting fees incurred by the indirect sale of a second-tier subsidiary by the subsidiary are deductible business...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

YA Global Heads to Appeals Court Over Tax Court Ruling on Offshore Fund’s U.S. Activities

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Share on LinkedIn Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top Last month, YA Global Investments, LP (the “Fund”) filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, seeking review of the...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Federal Circuit Holds Generic’s Hatch-Waxman Litigation Expenses Deductible

A March 21 Federal Circuit decision in Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. v. United States, No. 23-1320 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 21, 2025) marked a victory for generic drug developers, affirming that legal expenses incurred defending...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Georgia’s 2025 legislative session: Tax legislation overview

During the 2025 legislative session, the Georgia General Assembly passed several notable tax related bills including further decreasing the income tax rate and extending the time period for taxpayers to protest and appeal the...more

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Délai de saisine de la Commission nationale des impôts directs et des taxes sur le chiffre d'affaires et modalités d'entretien...

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Dans un arrêt du 4 mars 2025, la Cour administrative d'appel de Versailles rappelle les conditions de délai de saisine de la Commission nationale des impôts directs et des taxes sur le chiffre d'affaires, ainsi que les...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Employer to Nonresident Employee: “You Cannot Work in New York”; New York to Employee: “We Will Tax You Anyway”

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You are probably aware that many employers are discarding the fully flexible, remote work policies that were forced upon them – as “nonessential” businesses – during the COVID-19 pandemic[i] and which they retained as an...more

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Choice of Entity for a U.S. Business- Passthrough Status Matters Beyond the U.S. Border

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Decisions, Decisions - The owners of a closely held U.S. business will have to make many difficult decisions during the life of the business. Among the earliest of these is the so-called choice of business entity, the...more

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New York ALJ Finds Convenience of Employer Rule Applicable to Nonresident but Provides a Roadmap for How a Taxpayer May Prove the...

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In another challenge to New York’s so-called convenience of the employer rule (the “convenience rule”), an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) recently issued a determination upholding application of the rule against a...more

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Unconstitutionally Excessive FBAR Penalties? It Depends

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You may recall that earlier this year the IRS launched an initiative to pursue 125,000 “high-income, high-wealth” taxpayers who have not filed taxes since 2017. These were cases where the IRS received third party information...more

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Burlington: Good News for the Secondary Debt Market

In HMRC v Burlington Loan Management DAC [2024] UKUT 152 (TCC) (“Burlington”) the Upper Tribunal (“UT”) dismissed HMRC’s appeal, holding that the First-tier Tribunal (“FTT”) was right to conclude that the anti-abuse provision...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

California Legislatively Overturns Recent Office of Tax Appeals Taxpayer Win

The California State Legislature overturned Microsoft’s recent win at the Office of Tax Appeals, which held that the gross amount of dividends received from foreign affiliates outside its water’s-edge group should be included...more

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Colombia: Alivios y efectos tributarios Plan de Desarrollo "Bogotá Camina Segura" (2024 a 2027)

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Con el Acuerdo Distrital 927 de junio 11 de 2024, el Concejo Distrital de Bogotá aprobó el Plan de Desarrollo "Bogotá Camina Segura" para los años 2024 a 2027 del Alcalde Carlos Fernando Galán, del cual destacan los...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

“Ephemeral” Payments and Beneficial Entitlement

Tax legislation, and the decisions of tax courts and tribunals, can sometimes appear to be full of surprises.  The decision of the UK’s Court of Appeal in Hargreaves Property Holdings Limited [2024] EWCA Civ 365,...more

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IRS Cannot Offset Taxpayer’s Refund With A Disputed Tax Liability

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Imagine the IRS notifies Taxpayer that they have an outstanding tax liability with respect to Tax Year, and that the agency intends to levy on Taxpayer’s property to collect the allegedly unpaid tax. Taxpayer challenges the...more

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Supreme Court of Ohio Rules Extraterritorial Municipal Income Taxation Constitutional During Covid-19 Emergency

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On February 14, 2024, the Supreme Court of Ohio issued a 5-2 decision holding it was constitutional for a municipality to continue levying income taxes on employees performing work beyond municipal boundaries during the...more

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Microsoft Scores Massive Win in California, Opens the Door for Others Nationwide

The Office of Tax Appeals (OTA) handed Microsoft an enormous win in its controversy with the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) over the inclusion of qualifying dividends in the sales factor denominator for which it also...more

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Major California Corporate Tax Refund Opportunity for Multinational Corporations

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Microsoft's recent California Office of Tax Appeals win results in the opportunity for significant California corporate tax refunds for taxpayers with dividends from foreign affiliates....more

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What Does the Recent OTA Ruling Tell You About a California Tax Audit?

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What does the recent OTA ruling tell you about a California tax audit? What can we learn from the results of an investigation by the Office of Tax Appeals (OTA) into the practices of a California tax agency? Why do you need...more

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New York Appellate Court Rules in Favor of S Corporation Shareholder Entitlement to New York QEZE Tax Credits

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In a pair of decisions, a New York State appellate court has annulled decisions of the New York State Tax Appeals Tribunal that reduced certain tax credits available to the individual shareholders of their S corporation....more

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