The possible striking down of the revenue code’s 158-year-old ban on home spirits distilling could increase revenue collection and pave the way for reviving an American pastime, according to those close to the issue. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/4gcQcig

Nana Ama Sarfo explores section 250 of the U.K.'s Crime and Policing Act and ways in which the rule expands corporate criminal liability for firms. Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2026/08/17/raising-the-stakes-tax-firms-and-the-uk-senior-manager-attribution-rule/

Raising The Stakes: Tax Firms And The U.K. Senior Manager Attribution Rule

Nana Ama Sarfo explores section 250 of the U.K.'s Crime and Policing Act and ways in which the rule expands corporate criminal liability for firms.

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A cybercriminal accessed sensitive personal data on individual and business taxpayers on the French tax authority's internal servers, the French government confirmed. Read more: taxnotes.co/4wottFZ

A White House-mandated scrubbing of the IRS’s Internal Revenue Manual has gone from bad to worse for tax guidance seekers, as critical information disappears with no discernible timeline for when — or if — it might ever return. https://taxnotes.co/45pHdWa

Backers of the November ballot measure to repeal Washington's new millionaire tax have failed to secure changes to the official description that will go to voters. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/4wssTXQ

New York City's implementation of the new surcharge on luxury secondary homes violates state law and creates confusion for those who don’t owe the tax, three city residents allege in their suit. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/45YKThy

California’s billionaire wealth tax measure could generate up to $100 billion in revenue if approved, but it’s hard to gauge whether it would drive billionaires out of the state, according to a progressive think tank. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/4wno2qS

"Fundamentally, the Trump administration is upset that Canada, over the past year, has stood its ground and retaliated when provoked," Robert Goulder argues. "That’s no more than we should expect of any sovereign nation."

Blaming Canada: Trump Leans On Smoot-Hawley Tariff Authority

Robert Goulder comments on the Trump administration's latest round of punitive tariffs aimed at Canadian imports.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has directed state regulators to audit proposed data center projects that seek to connect to the state’s electric grid, including identifying tax incentives or other public financial assistance they may be receiving. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/4bzsHhV

The latest set of tariffs imposed by the Trump administration aren’t lawful and are increasing administrative costs for states, according to a new lawsuit filed by Oregon and 24 other states. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/3RTFqoV

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., is asking the IRS to remove administrative hurdles for married couples filing jointly that can lead to processing delays or lost tax payments. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/4ga9gie

Inventory tax accounting rules and economic performance recognition timing principles will help businesses affected by the recent contaminated lettuce recalls recover their related costs, according to tax professionals who spoke with Tax Notes. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/4w88qrd

"Graham Platner’s Senate campaign ended in disgrace," @joethorndike.bsky.social writes. "But it still has something to teach his fellow Democrats — especially about taxes."

Platner Is Gone, But His Billionaire Tax Plan Still Matters

Joseph J. Thorndike examines former Senate hopeful Graham Platner’s tax plans and whether they could offer an attractive tax policy more broadly for Democrats.

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The future is unclear for a House-passed, bipartisan bill that would expand a tax deduction to early childhood educators, because the Senate is swapping it out for sanctions legislation championed by Lindsey Graham, the late Republican senator. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/4g2YFpl

The injunction halting the sharing of taxpayer information with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should remain to stop further harm from happening, including wrongful arrests and deportations, a group of organizations argued in federal court. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/4bLX0C4

One year and one filing season later, how has the "No Tax on Tips" provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act affected the workers it was designed to help? In this week's podcast episode, Tax Notes legal reporter Trevor Sikes explains. 👇

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Tax Notes legal reporter Trevor Sikes investigated how the qualified tips deduction under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has affected tipped workers in the year since the law's enactment.Sikes and fel...

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"The fact that Trump accounts are part of the tax code isn’t ideal, because they’re not fundamentally a tax policy," Marie Sapirie writes.

The Bells And Whistles Of Trump Accounts

Marie Sapirie examines the launch of Trump accounts and the accompanying educational information on financial literacy.

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A group of Senate Democrats has requested that an IRS watchdog investigate reports that former Treasury Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy Kenneth Kies was ousted after raising concerns about alleged presidential interference in audits.

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A government watchdog recommended that Treasury and the IRS devise a way to identify public comments submitted using artificial intelligence and improve economic analyses of tax regulations.

IRS Unprepared for AI Use in Public Comments, Watchdog Finds | Tax Notes

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Developments in the artificial intelligence sector are expected to trigger economic growth, but any noticeable change to federal tax revenues depends largely on how output is allocated, according to a new report.

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"Against this background of relative opacity, the king’s voluntary disclosure appears to be a welcome change," Robert Goulder writes. "However, upon closer inspection, I’m unimpressed. Something doesn’t seem quite right."

‘Don’t Complain, Don’t Explain’ — King Charles III and Tax Transparency | Tax Notes

Robert Goulder comments on the voluntary tax disclosures regarding members of the British royal family.

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President Trump and Republican lawmakers have floated several tax proposals over the past year, but time is winding down to pass legislation ahead of the midterm elections. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/4gE9sHq

"Proposals to tax artificial intelligence are not as novel as they look," @joethorndike.bsky.social argues. "They belong to an old habit in American politics: using the tax system to manage innovations that create obvious winners and losers."

Before Taxing AI, Consider The Chain Store Taxes Of The 1930s

Joseph J. Thorndike argues proposals to tax AI belong to the old habit in American politics of using the tax system to manage innovations that create winners and losers.

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A new IRS legal memo concluding that a limited partner’s conditional deficit restoration obligation isn’t a payment obligation for purposes of the partnership debt allocation rules raises more questions than it answers. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/3T2XIo2

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A federal judge ruled that President Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS was never truly adversarial, finding that the president controlled both parties and sanctioning his personal attorneys for pursuing the suit in bad faith. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/44pbzHM

Tax professionals are cautioning that if the IRS eventually loses its appeal in the case of Kwong, it will have to process the mountain of pandemic-era refund claims, creating a long timeline for payouts. Read more: https://taxnotes.co/4vw1WlA

"Tax amnesty programs — in Europe and elsewhere — commit a cardinal sin by making chumps out of law-abiding taxpayers," Tax Notes contributing editor Robert Goulder argues.

Does Italy’s Tax Amnesty Scheme Violate EU Law?

Robert Goulder comments on the advocate general's opinion in Isolanti Group, a case currently before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

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Public country-by-country reporting for multinational enterprises is dangerous because it may lead to misinterpretation of complex financial data, according to a top U.S. Treasury official.

Public CbC Reporting Is ‘Dangerous,' Treasury Official Says | Tax Notes

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Three top Democratic senators have sent letters to several companies affiliated with President Trump requesting information about whether they’re shielded from audits under his controversial settlement agreement with the IRS.

Democrats Keep Up Questions on Trump's IRS Audit Deal | Tax Notes

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