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Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Send in the crowns

• Don’t Mess With Taxes: Blimey! Dept.: Those who think the IRS is the biggest tax-collecting threat on the planet should pop across the pond and chat with the British man who received the following from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs: “We think the amount you owe HMRC is £14,301,369,864,489.03.”
• Liberty Tax: Best ways your clients can use that shiny new ACA plan.
• Summing It Up: How the RD credit may apply to a great number of your clients – and they may not even realize it.
• TurboTax: How to make that scrambling Neverland of work – self-employment – at least a little easier regarding taxes for clients.
• Bloomberg BNA: Sometimes “over there” can just mean over the hill: “Why More and More States are Considering Combined Reporting.”

Potholes

• TaxMama: Mama helps a heap of people with questions about expired refunds, specifically after not filing for several years.
• Mauled Again: Talk about breakdowns: Seems no state wants to hit the highway first regarding a mileage-based road fee, on which rests nothing short of “the future of highway, bridge, and tunnel maintenance, repair and expansion.” The shrinking violet phenom is only “one element of 21^st century American political and cultural dysfunction.”
• Due Diligence: In this week’s collection: “More Blood on the Hands of Big Pharma?”; “Whistleblowers Claim Hospital Orders Too Many Surgeries”; “Whistleblower Receives $4.5 Million Award”; “Tenet Healthcare – the Most Despicable Name in Healthcare”; and “New Medicare Fraud Investigation – Reziuddin Siddique.”
• John R. Dundon II EA: Even the happiest couples fight. A look at when to approach the IRS Office of Appeals, along with Fast Track Settlement and other programs.

Q.-and-A.

• Tax Musings of a Burbank CPA: When the quick answer is “maybe”: Selling a residence means your client may or may not or then again may have to pay income tax on the gain.
• Rubin on Tax: Was a partnership that was a partner in a Cayman Islands partnership under any obligation to prepare an inaccurate return to avoid failure to file? Ask the partners.
• Federal Tax Crimes: A look at United States v. McBride, involving the “relatively common scenario” of a U.S. taxpayer who adopted a “sincerely held belief” that he does not owe tax in mask his tax evasion. How that went, with a nod to Cheek v. United States.
• Solutions for CPA Firm Leaders: How the young’uns in your firm actually do value review notes.

What we deserve

• Tax Analysts: Take 2 on Trump’s tax plan (“With … rivals now dispatched, Trump can shift gears and think about how much his plan costs …”).
• Tax Vox: Hillary Clinton recently released her 2015 individual income tax return (and wasn’t shy about challenging a beleaguered opponent to do likewise). This blogger’s initial verdict: “The Clintons are rich, pay a lot of taxes, and are more generous than average for people in their bracket. They file returns that seem designed for intense scrutiny, which is to say, kind of boring.”
• A Taxing Matter: A look at how unveiling returns can be a “measure of character” of a candidate, and how “taxpayers deserve to know.”

New to us

• IRS Tax Trouble: Houston Empowered Tax LLC offers a collection of tips, tricks and subjects. This week: “IRS Collections for U.S. Military Personnel,” including how judicial and administrative proceedings are temporarily suspended for those in the military. Welcome aboard.

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