Lawsuits

A lawyer for the U.S. House of Representatives signaled that congressional Democrats will move aggressively during the Biden administration to obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, telling a judge “enough is enough.”

Investigators probing Donald Trump’s finances have gotten hold of some of his tax records, allowing them to move ahead even without a Supreme Court order that would give them eight years of his returns.

Deutsche Bank, TP ICAP and two German lawyers are the targets of M.M. Warburg & Co.’s latest legal attempt to recoup the big tax bill it was ordered to pay over controversial Cum-Ex trades.

A federal appeals court in Washington agreed with President Donald Trump that a lower court should decide whether Democrats in Congress must narrow their subpoena to his accounting firm for his financial records.

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland faced skeptical questioning from a panel of federal judges considering whether to revive a lawsuit that challenges a U.S. cap on individual deductions for state and local taxes.

New York authorities are seeking more records of Donald Trump's company’s communication with an engineer who helped appraise its property.

Chris Rokos, who runs the hedge fund that bears his name, sued Deloitte and a U.S. law firm after 39.4 million pounds ($52 million) in tax relief was thrown out by U.K. authorities.

The auction house was accused of helping a wealthy shipping company owner avoid paying income taxes on artwork he purchased.

Grant Thornton has prevailed in an appeal by a former tax client who had sued after the firm failed to advise him of a tax strategy that potentially could have saved him over a million dollars and then allegedly tried to cover up the error.

A federal appeals panel rejected President Donald Trump’s latest bid to block the Manhattan district attorney from getting his tax filings and other financial records.

The coronavirus pandemic is creating new exposures for accounting firms, and exacerbating others.

Lawyers for Donald Trump were met with skepticism from federal appeals court judges as they made their latest attempt to block New York prosecutors from getting their hands on his tax filings and other financial documents through a grand jury subpoena.

The Manhattan district attorney said press reports suggesting potential misdeeds by President Donald Trump and his company could justify a grand jury subpoena of the president’s taxes and other financial records.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. agreed to delay enforcement of a subpoena for President Donald Trump’s tax and financial records until after a federal appeals court decides whether or not to put the request on ice for even longer.

New York is investigating whether President Donald Trump’s company falsely reported the value of his assets to secure loans and get tax benefits as claimed last year by Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, who has fallen out with his ex-boss.

The Internal Revenue Service limited taxpayers’ ability to resolve their tax cases directly with the IRS’s Independent Office of Appeals in a memorandum Monday.

A federal appeals court set a hearing for Sept. 1 to consider President Donald Trump’s emergency request to put on hold a judge’s ruling that cleared the way for the Manhattan District Attorney to enforce a subpoena for his tax returns and other financial records.

A federal judge rejected Donald Trump’s latest bid to block the Manhattan district attorney’s subpoena of his tax records, but the president’s planned appeal could push the matter past the election.

The firm is awaiting a ruling in a case involving a manufacturing company owner who sued the firm for fraud, negligence and other claims after the firm failed to advise him of a tax strategy.

President Donald Trump urged a judge to block a New York grand jury from reviewing his tax filings and disputed a suggestion by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. that the panel may be looking into bank and insurance fraud at the Trump Organization.