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New York Expands False Claims Act Tax Liability for Non-Filers

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed into law new legislation expanding the reach of the New York False Claims Act (NYFCA) to entities that fail to file tax returns in New York. Unlike the federal False Claims Act...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Thinking About ‘Avoiding’ NY Tax Increases? Then Think About The False Claims Act

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According to Justice Learned Hand, “Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to...more

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Tax & False Claims Acts - Will DC Authorize Bounty Hunters?

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A few states allow private parties (e.g., plaintiff lawyers) to bring tax suits under state False Claims Acts (qui tam actions) - often for a share of treble damages. The District of Columbia is looking to join the club...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

State + Local Tax Insights: Summer 2017

Triple the Risk, Triple the Uncertainty: Tax False Claims Act Suits. - Part one of a two part series - During a single hearing in March 2016, a Cook County Circuit Judge dismissed over 200 False Claims Act (“FCA”) suits...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

MoFo New York Tax Insights - Volume 6, Issue 11

Resident Is Not Subject to Use Tax on Yacht Briefly Docked in the State - In Matter of Michael Pellino, DTA No. 825869 (N.Y.S. Div. of Tax App., Oct. 1, 2015), a New York State Administrative Law Judge concluded that...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New York AG Settles Tax Fraud Case against Lantheus Medical Imaging For $6.2 Million

Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. – formerly, Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging – recently agreed to pay $6.2 million to settle a qui tam suit alleging that it committed tax fraud. The plaintiff, a Lantheus tax servicer,...more

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