John Woolley

New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut should be barred from challenging a Treasury Department rule that stops their attempted circumvention of the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, the federal government told the Second Circuit.

The Corporate Transparency Act will remain temporarily blocked pending the US government’s appeal of the nationwide injunction against the law and its implementing regulations, a Texas federal judge ruled Tuesday.

The Fifth Circuit lifted a nationwide injunction that blocked enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act, finding that the federal government is likely to prevail in a constitutional challenge to the disclosure law.

A Fifth Circuit panel reinstated a nationwide injunction blocking enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act, three days after a different panel lifted it, causing turmoil in compliance offices.

A couple who allegedly failed to disclose foreign financial accounts to the US government challenged the Tax Court’s decision that the penalties they face aren’t subject to collection due process statutes because they aren’t taxes.

Property owners around four Michigan lakes failed to challenge a special assessment by their county boards to pay for local dam repairs because the petitioners hadn’t shown that the counties violated their procedural due process rights, a Michigan appeals court said.