The Tennessee Department of Revenue issued Notice 13-06 in June notifying taxpayers that its acceptance of voluntary disclosure of intangible expense deductions at a preferred settlement rate will be ending later this year.

As the Department of Labor’s (DOL) composition ebbs and flows from administration to administration, so does the guidance employers receive on one of the most...

On May 5, 2022, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance

Legislation was introduced on January 23 that would adopt a click-thru nexus standard in Tennessee.

On January 14, the Tennessee Department of Revenue introduced legislation that, if enacted, would modify the informal taxpayer conference procedures that govern the appeal of tax assessments in Tennessee.

Once a benefit of employment becomes an established feature of a role, employers may not be able to withdraw it without agreement.

On November 30, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published its debt collection final rule in the Federal Register.

This case highlighted the importance of having clear, unambiguous employment contracts and bonus schemes in place.

Recently, in Cross v. L-M Asphalt Partners, Ltd., the Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld a contractor's immunity from suit for negligence

The EEOC is trying to make it easier to get information about employment trends and has launched EEOC Explore...

Decisions, decisions. Can you require that your employees get a COVID-19 vaccine, and if you do, can you make the employees tell you their vaccination status?

On March 31, 2015, President Obama used the fourth veto of his presidency to prevent passage of S.J. Res. 8, a congressional resolution aimed at blocking implementation of the NLRB’s "Quickie Election" Rule.

Small employers—especially employers with large part-time workforces—should also closely track employee census numbers to determine when they might become applicable large employers that are subject to the coverage mandate.

Federal funds are available to assist manufacturers in promoting sustainability initiatives through Alabama’s E3 program. E3 – short for Economy, Energy, and Environment – is a collaboration among federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership of the Department of Commerce, the Small Business Administration, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Energy, aimed at promoting and support

In the current economic environment, IRS-prescribed monthly interest rates for certain intra-family transactions are at historic lows.

Physician-owned hospitals that seek to avail themselves of the "whole hospital" exception or "rural provider" exception to the federal physician self-referral law, commonly known as the Stark Law, should carefully review their Medicare enrollment files to ensure compliance with a recently imposed reporting requirement with a fast approaching deadline.

On April 19, 2023, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed Act No. 2023-25, which contained the new standard for liquor liability, into law. The new law, which dramatically changed the landscape of Alabama dram shop laws, took effect immediately.

Whether it was in a third grade classroom, on a community college campus, or in the most advanced university research lab, it is fair to say the 2020 fall semester looked different...

Developments continue to come almost daily about misclassification of employees as independent contractors.

The Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") has issued interim guidance to employers on the Form W-2 informational reporting requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("Affordable Care Act").