David Hansen

Tax and management consulting firm Alliantgroup has appointed a former commissioner of the IRS’ Small Business and Self-Employed Division as its new national director of compliance.

Winston & Strawn LLP has added a pair of partners from Eversheds Sutherland to lead the firm’s Washington, D.C., federal tax and criminal tax law practices.

An Israeli man fleeing to Romania to escape accusations that he failed to pay taxes on 22.5 million shekels ($7 million) of income faces justice after his extradition back to Israel, according to an Israel Tax Authority news release.

Jodi J. Schwartz led Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz’s tax team in advising Analog Devices in its $68 billion acquisition of Maxim Integrated Products and Taubman Centers’ $9.8 billion merger with Simon Properties, landing her among Law360’s 2020 Tax MVPs.

Steptoe & Johnson LLP has added a partner to its New York office from Norton Rose Fulbright who will focus on domestic and international tax planning, the firm announced.

The Fourth Circuit dismissed the suit of a Russian scientist Friday, declining to reconsider its April decision that his earnings from subatomic particle research were a form of taxable income.

Two Florida-based pension funds leading a class action accusing drugmaker Perrigo of concealing a €1.6 billion ($1.86 billion) tax bill asked a New York federal court to approve a $31.9 million settlement they reached with the company.

A former pharmaceutical CEO faces almost $1 million in penalties for failing to report his Swiss bank accounts after a Third Circuit panel Friday affirmed a lower court ruling that his omission was willful.

A man owes the Internal Revenue Service $324,000 in penalties, interest and late fees after failing to report two Credit Suisse bank accounts on his tax returns for 2010, 2011 and 2012, the government told a California federal court.

A federal court should dismiss insurance fraud claims against a consulting firm in a case where a furniture company seeks $19 million from the firm’s former employee, the firm argued, because he joined the consultancy after committing the alleged fraud.