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

Businesses that want to accelerate year-end deductions by buying machinery and equipment have a formidable array of tax tools to work with this year, including generous expensing under Section 179 of the tax code. Here’s how to make the most of Code Sec. 179 expensing.

Accounting firm Marcum LLP has released its 2016 Year-End Tax Guide.

The Internal Revenue Service is opening up its detailed tax data to researchers outside the federal government who can make use of the information in their studies.

In the latter part of the year we begin conducting year-end planning meetings with clients. For the ones with children or grandchildren, invariably part of the meeting focuses on planning and saving for college and possibly graduate school expenses.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do more to ensure taxpayers aren’t using virtual currencies like bitcoin to avoid taxes, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service didn’t do enough to mitigate risks in some of its information technology contracts, according to a new report.

Last week I wrote about certain fixed fee arrangements where I did extras I did not bill for. Here is a further explanation.

An emeritus professor of business administration in Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty to hiding $200 million in assets from the Internal Revenue Service by using offshore accounts at a bank that people familiar with the matter identified as Credit Suisse Group AG.

The IRS has issued an urgent alert to tax professionals who use IRS e-Services to beware of an e-mail asking them to update their accounts and directing them to a fake Web site.

Victims of October's Hurricane Matthew in parts of Virginia may qualify for tax relief, the IRS said.

Tax preparers charge a nationwide average of $114 to prepare a Form 1040 with no schedules.

This past April, I stepped onstage to deliver the keynote address to one of my firm’s largest client conferences for tax. I addressed a group of 1,200 or more professionals almost evenly balanced between men and women. In fact, in EY’s own tax practice, women represent 52 percent of the professionals.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations on controlled foreign corporations to provide rules about the treatment of U.S. property held by the CFC in connection with transactions involving partnerships.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Republicans on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee sent a a letter Thursday to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew asking him to withdraw the Treasury’s recently proposed regulations on estate and gift taxes.

Ninety percent of the accounting industry is tied to compliance services in areas such as accounting, audit and tax, but don’t look there for encouraging signs of industry performance.

Internal Revenue Service examiners confront some steep barriers when trying to audit the transfer pricing strategies used by multinational corporations to reduce their taxes, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service convened a meeting of its Security Summit partners in the tax preparation industry and state tax authorities Thursday to discuss additional steps they can take to safeguard tax refunds from identity theft next filing season.

The National Association of Enrolled Agents opposes the recently announced IRS hike on user fees, specifically the proposed six-fold increase in the price of taking the EA Exam.