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

Now that school is out (unless you live in a part of the country still making up for lost “snow days”), it’s easy to get caught up in the general euphoria and take a vacation from thoughts of tax preparation for the summer. But now is precisely the time preparers need to keep communication lines open with their clients, according to Chuck McCabe, president of Peoples Income Tax and The Income Tax School.

KPMG and the National Association of Black Accountants announced that the University of Maryland won the 2014 KPMG/NABA case study competition.

The Internal Revenue Service is moving ahead with a voluntary tax preparer education program after legal challenges derailed an earlier mandatory testing and continuing education program.

Intuit announced a partnership with SmartVault to offer an integrated document management solution.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has released staff guidance to help auditors of brokers and dealers registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to plan and perform audits in accordance with PCAOB standards as mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act and SEC rules.

The Internal Revenue Service has successfully implemented a provision of the Affordable Care Act involving prescription drug fees imposed on pharmaceutical manufacturers and importers, according to a new report.

Devereux is actively engaged as a tax advisor and business consultant for Mueller Prost as director of manufacturing and distribution services.

Brian Amann, CEO and founder of TaxOps, shares the steps that accountants should take on their path toward becoming more entrepreneurial, in an interview with Accounting Today managing editor Tamika Cody.

A new study finds that disclosure of personal relationships between corporate CEOs and members of the board of directors could paradoxically encourage directors to exhibit less independence from management.