In the blogs: Strange but true

Useful tips; pets and tax bills; becoming simply profitable; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Strange but true

• The Tax Times (https://www.thetaxtimes.com): The latest IRS efforts to lasso wealthy tax cheats.
• Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (https://itep.org/category/blog/): Here's a tip: Keep the taxation of tips as-is.
• University of Illinois Tax School (https://taxschool.illinois.edu/blog/): A look at the reopening of the Employee Retention Credit Voluntary Disclosure Program.
• National Taxpayer Advocate (https://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/taxnews-information/blogs-nta/): The IRS has dispatched some 28,000 notices of claim disallowance regarding the ERC and promises more. Were business owners — including some of your clients — confused? How some notices were unclear or had no information on appeal rights.
• Global Taxes (https://www.globaltaxes.com/blog.php): You can close but you cannot hide: Shuttered companies may still have to report beneficial ownership information.
• TaxProf Blog (http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/): After decades of uncertainty, the Supreme Court in Mayo v. United States resolved a conflict over the deference standard for tax regulations. That calm didn't last long.
• Taxable Talk (http://www.taxabletalk.com/): The story you will read here is true: How a big federal refund check just kept bouncing around and around and around.

Nothing but questions

• Tax Notes (https://www.taxnotes.com/procedurally-taxing): Are financial disability claims generally successful in Tax Court?
• Turbotax (https://blog.turbotax.intuit.com): If your clients have a choice between a 403(b) and a Roth IRA, where should their dough go?
• Don't Mess with Taxes (http://dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com/): At Last Some ROI Dept: Can pets reduce a tax bill?
• The Rosenberg Associates (https://rosenbergassoc.com/blog/): What questions should entry-level staff ask partners?

Fair play

• MeyersBrothersKalicka (https://www.mbkcpa.com/insights): Clients with two or more children probably already know how treating them "fairly" doesn't always mean treating them "equally." For estate planning, how a pot trust can help.
• HBK (https://hbkcpa.com/insights/): The tax proposals of Kamala Harris and, depending on what the November extravaganza produces, what clients should start doing for estate planning.
• Palm Beach Accounting & Financial Services (https://www.pbafs.com/blog): Life insurance can help with many problems of passing on wealth — including inheritance taxes.
• Gordon Law (https://gordonlawltd.com/blog/): What to remind them about Form 926.
• TaxConnex (https://www.taxconnex.com/blog-): The State of Washington inching toward its own retail delivery fee and increasing one levy to counter cuts in another are among recent developments in sales tax.
• Withum (https://www.withum.com/resources/): The latest California tax updates.
• Taxbuzz (https://www.taxbuzz.com/blog): Key factors that typically determine the jurisdiction of a trust.
• The National Association of Tax Professionals (https://blog.natptax.com/): What to remind them about SDIRAs.

We can rebuild him

• Avalara (https://www.avalara.com/blog/en/north-america.html): Tech can make your procure-to-pay process better, stronger, faster.
• Armanino (https://www.armanino.com/articles/): How AI and RPA can unburden your tax team.
• Boyum & Barenscheer (https://www.myboyum.com/blog/): Submitted for your nonprofit clients' approval: Brad, the development director of an international environmental charity, was thrilled to learn from a fundraising staffer that one of the charity's past supporters was promising to make a new, six-figure donation. But there was a catch.
• Canopy (https://www.canopytax.com/blog): How a simplified firm can be more efficient, productive and profitable.