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The Senate Just Raised the Bar

On September 30, the Senate unanimously passed the Taxpayer Assistance and Service Act. Most headlines called it an IRS customer service bill. That framing undersells it. Buried in...

The IRS Just Cleared Out 71 Pieces of Guidance

The IRS announced this month that it is removing 71 revenue rulings, revenue procedures, notices, and announcements it previously published. Most tax pros will skim the headline an...

Busy Season Is Your Best Sales Season.

Every January, tax firms get something most businesses would pay a fortune for: a scheduled conversation with nearly every client, who shows up ready to share their whole financial...

What Your Team is Telling AI

Dana spent the summer planning. Her eight-person firm would take on 60 new individual clients this season. It would roll out an AI-assisted review workflow in January and keep exte...

The IRS Lost a Case Over a Postmark

Every practitioner has had this conversation with a client: "I never got that letter from the IRS." Usually, that's treated as the client's problem. A new Tax Court decision says i...

Your LLC Members Might Owe Self-Employment Tax After All

For years, tax advisors have told clients a simple story about the limited partner exception to self-employment tax: form a state-law limited partnership (or LLLP), give someone li...

October 15 Is Not the Finish Line: What to Do About the Clients Who Still Haven’t Sent Anything

Thursday, October 15, is the extended deadline for most individual returns. If you have clients who still have not delivered documents, you already know the feeling. But here is th...

Every Practice Management Platform is Selling the Same Promise

Automated document collection, AI that preps the return, agents that handle admin and onboarding. Those are the promises being made by nearly every tax practice management tool the...

The American Tax Policy Institute and the ABA Tax Section: NIL Taxation Seminars

Katie Pratt (Loyola Law School), Erin Henry (Arkansas), and Caroline Bruckner (American University) co-organized two seminars on the taxation of NIL Income co-sponsored with the Am...

New England In-House Impact, Individual Winner: Christine Panetta, TowerPoint

The New England Legal Awards honored attorneys and legal professionals at a Boston awards ceremony Oct. 8.       

Tax Law Update: November 2026

The most notable tax law developments of the past month.

Tax Prof Moves, 2025-2026

Here is a list of (1) visiting assistant professor hires; (2) entry-level hires; (3) lateral moves; (4) promotions, tenures, chairs, and professorships; (5) administrative appointm...

Cauble: Channels of Tax Law (Mis)Information

Emily Cauble (Wisconsin) has recently published a new piece, Channels of Tax Law (Mis)Information, 2026 U. Ill. L. Rev. 543. Here’s the abstract: This Article sheds light on a perv...

In the blogs: Risk nobody is watching right now

Compliance drift; adoption tax credit; distort the P&L statement; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Compliance Trap: Why Most Tax Pros Never Become Strategists

 We have spent years telling tax professionals to get past the return and do planning work. Very few of them manage it. The reason sits in how their firms are built. 

DOJ’s Fraud Division Memo Puts Tax Enforcement Front and Center: What Companies Across Industries Need to Know

Did You Receive Your Pied-à-Terre Tax Notice?

Tax Advice and AI

Jay A. Soled (Rutgers) & Linda Galler (Hofstra), Tax Advice and AI, 100 Tul. L. Rev. 909 (2026): In the past, taxpayers’ choices in seeking guidance on tax return positions wer...

Foreign Tax Credits Against the Net Investment Income Tax: A Critical Analysis of the Federal Circuit’s Decisive Rulings...

Estate of Paul Bruyea v. United States, F.4th , No. 25-1563, ECF No. 58 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 31, 2026), reversing Bruyea v. United States, 174 Fed. Cl. 238 (2024). Matthew Christ...

Tax Law Update: October 2026

The most notable tax law developments of the past month

Tax Fraud Blotter: Making waves in Hawaii

Millions on OnlyFans; 'Administrative Expenses;' cookie decorating class; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

SSRN Review & Roundup: Marks Reviews Cauble’s Guiding Tax Return Preparers Informally

This week, Noah H. Marks (UNC) reviews a new work by Emily Cauble (Wisconsin), Guiding Tax Return Preparers Informally, __ Fla. Tax Rev. __ (forthcoming). Slightly more than 50% of...

Season-proofing the team: Protecting tax compliance continuity through turnover

  Every direct tax team carries a quiet risk into compliance season: institutional knowledge that lives in one or two … The post Season-proofing the team: Protecting tax compliance...

WSJ: Why I’m Trying to Stop the IRS From Giving Me a Tax Refund This Year

Laura Saunders (WSJ): Why I’m Trying to Stop the IRS From Giving Me a Tax Refund This Year It is time to start year-end tax planning, and this year I’m doing something different. F...