A coalition of East Coast states led by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of a $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions to shoulder corporate tax cuts under the Trump administration’s new code.
Read moreCasting itself as a scapegoat of the opioid epidemic, an drug-distribution trade group brought a federal complaint in protest of New York’s attempt to make Big Pharma pay $600 million toward the cost of treating drug abusers.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday ordered former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to be moved to a jail closer to his lawyers.
Read moreA judge signed off on a settlement Tuesday that lets distressed Michiganders pay $1,000 to stay in their homes and seek exemption from property taxes.
Read moreEurope’s highest court sided with U.K. authorities Thursday on whether auction credits sold by the penny-auction website MadBid.com are subject to value-added tax, more commonly known as VAT.
Read moreA new tax on social media has taken effect in Uganda, angering many who see the revenue measure as an attack on free speech.
Read moreThe 11th Circuit shot down a novel request Thursday for NextEra Energy to get a tax refund on the $97 million it paid to dispose of nuclear waste.
Read moreCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Thursday that bans new local taxes on sugary drinks through 2030, in order to stop what he called “an abomination” of a ballot initiative planned by the beverage industry to make it harder to pass soda taxes.
Read moreCalifornia voters will get the chance to ax a gas tax intended to pay for long-term highway maintenance and infrastructure projects after a repeal measure qualified for the November ballot on Monday.
Read moreThe state of Washington will head to the U.S. Supreme Court next term for the right to tax a fuel distributor owned by a Native American tribe.
Read moreReversing decades of precedent, the Supreme Court on Thursday held states may force online retailers to collect and remit sales tax on transactions even if they do not have a traditional storefront in the state.
Read moreIn a win for railroads, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that money earned by a railroad employee’s exercise of stock options should not be treated as compensation for the purposes of paying payroll taxes.
Read moreBy a 5-2 vote Monday, the highest court in Massachusetts killed a ballot question that could have levied a 4 percent tax on millionaire residents.
Read moreMore than a week after Election Day in California the campaign signs have come down in the city of Fullerton, where voters recalled their state representative over his support of a 12-cent-per-gallon gas tax. But across California the effort to repeal the tax itself is only beginning.
Read moreAn outfit that spent millions promoting Republican politicians, but billed itself as a public-welfare organization to avoid taxes, avoided charges Friday thanks to a 2-1 ruling from the D.C. Circuit.
Read moreMajor League Baseball’s Cincinnati Reds asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday to reverse a finding that sports teams must pay sales taxes on collectible bobblehead toys and other giveaways to fans on game days.
Read moreIn a surprise move, the Seattle City Council voted 7-2 to repeal a $275-per-employee homeless services tax on the city’s largest businesses passed unanimously just weeks ago.
Read moreThe Supreme Court decision legalizing sports betting is barely two weeks old, but leagues that once opposed the paradigm shift have spent months now clamoring for their cut. As states fire back, Courthouse News reached out to economists and experts in sports law for their take.
Read moreThe Colorado Supreme Court upheld Aspen’s 20-cent charge on paper bags Monday, finding it a fee, not a tax, with “a reasonable relationship to Aspen’s cost” of waste management.
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