Tax Notes Talk
A discussion of cutting-edge developments in tax, including up-to-the-minute changes in federal, state, and international tax law and regulations.
Episodes
Tax Notes contributing editor Robert Goulder discusses the upcoming oral arguments before the Supreme Court on the validity of the Trump administration's recent reciprocal tariffs and speculates on the Court's reaction.
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Tax Notes reporter Sarah Paez breaks down the biggest international tax developments from the annual Congress of the International Fiscal Association in Lisbon, Portugal.
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April Harding, former IRS director of user experience services, discusses her proposed agency modernization plan and the future of IRS digital products.
For more coverage, read the following in Tax Notes:
- Shutdown Uncertainty Adds to Difficult Year for IRS Employees
- Direct File Derailed by Dissension, Not Performance, Werfel Says
- What's Next for the IRS? Another Overhaul?
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Karen Kelly, former acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department Tax Division, discusses the upcoming elimination of the division and how it could affect civil and criminal tax enforcement.
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- House Bill Would Formalize Abolition of DOJ Tax Division
- Tax Community Pushes to Keep DOJ Tax Division Intact
- Idea to Disperse DOJ Tax Lawyers Draws Mixed Initial Reaction
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Professors David Gamage and Darien Shanske discuss their recent paper, “Money Moves: Taxing the Wealthy at the State Level,” which lays out their argument for a state-level wealth tax.
For more, read Gamage and Shanske's article, coauthored by Professor Brian Galle.
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Tax Notes contributing editors Robert Goulder and Joseph Thorndike discuss the recent Nvidia deal to export chips to China, and they question its constitutionality and implications.
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Former IRS Chief Privacy Officer Kathleen Walters discusses the agency’s data sharing agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, her decision to step down, and life as a working mom.
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- Treasury Looks to Undo Some IRS Resignations
- IRS Posts Thousands of Jobs Amid Workforce Reductions
- IRS Has Answered Immigration Agency's Request for Tax Data
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Tax Notes contributing editor Robert Goulder discusses how Pope Leo XIV’s American citizenship creates a unique tax issue and how the United States may try to avoid taxing the pope.
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- Expats Eye Pope's Tax Woes as Opportunity to Ditch Worldwide Tax
- Analysis: The American Pope and Citizenship-Based Taxation
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Tax Notes contributing editor Ryan Finley discusses the current transfer pricing landscape, including where things stand in the Facebook and Coca-Cola cases.
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Ellen Aprill of UCLA discusses the legal battle between Harvard and the Trump administration over the university's tax-exempt status and the recourses that an exempt organization may have if its status is revoked.
For more, read Aprill's article, "Revoking Tax Exemption for Pursuit of DEI and Other Alleged Forms of Discrimination."
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Steve Kralik of Armanino discusses the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s implications for state tax, including the new version of the SALT cap and how states may conform to the changes.
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- Colorado Faces $1.2 Billion Revenue Loss From OBBBA Provisions
- California Advances Conformity Update Bill Without OBBBA Provisions
- Trump Tax Bill Brings State Funding Dilemmas, Conformity Choices
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Alan Cole of the Tax Foundation discusses the international tax provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and what may be next for negotiations on a global tax framework.
For more on international tax and the OBBBA, check out our previous episode, "International Tax in the Reconciliation Bill: House Versus Senate."
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House Ways and Means Committee member Adrian Smith, R-Neb., discusses the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s accomplishments and what could be next for Congress on tax.
Check out our interview with Rep. Horsford, "House Taxwriter Talks Democratic Priorities, Responds to OBBBA."
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House Ways and Means Committee member Steven Horsford, D-Nev., discusses the New Democrat Coalition’s tax priorities and the framework the coalition developed as an alternative to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Check out our break down of the passed legislation, "The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: What Made the Final Cut?"
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Tax Notes Capitol Hill reporters Cady Stanton and Katie Lobosco explore the final version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that President Trump signed into law on July 4.
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Ryan Minnick of the Federation of Tax Administrators discusses how state tax agencies are approaching artificial intelligence and shares insights from the FTA’s upcoming briefing paper on generative AI and its 2024 tax agency survey.
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- California Tax Agency Ramping Up for Generative AI
- State Tax Administrators Are Studying the Use of Generative AI
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Tax Notes investigations editor Lauren Loricchio discusses Treasury’s information sharing agreement with the Department of Homeland Security and its implications for immigrants.
Read Loricchio's full story in Tax Notes, "Information Sharing Deal Complicates Immigrant Return Filing."
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Jonathan Samford and Kevin Klein of the Global Business Alliance discuss the proposed section 899 retaliatory tax and other international tax provisions included in the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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Jessica Millett of Hogan Lovells discusses the proposed changes to the Opportunity Zone program under the House version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and how the Senate might react.
For more on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, check out our previous episodes:
- One Big Beautiful Bill: Breaking Down the House Tax Package
- The House Budget Bill’s Clean Energy Tax Credit Changes
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Former IRS Commissioners Lawrence Gibbs, John Koskinen, Charles Rettig, and Daniel Werfel share lessons learned from their tenures and predictions for the agency's future under the new administration.
For the full discussion, check out our Taxing Issues episode, "Reimagining the IRS: A Historic Conversation."
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