Recent highlights from some of our favorite tax bloggers:

Twinkies, rollovers, the golden years

• Don’t Mess with Taxes: Who says it’s time to retire? Not your bank account.
• A Taxing Matter: “Jack Cummings, General Utilities Repeal, and Treasury's Rollover.”
• Tax Girl: Death of the Twinkie?
• Beancounter Ramblings: No! Not the Twinkie?!
• TaxProf Blog: And the deductibility of advertising Twinkie-like stuff.

IRS matters

• The Tax Factor: Sandy scams and EITC warnings.
• Mauled Again: “Taxation of Medical Study Payments,” plus when tax meets the demands of a law practice.
• Tax Policy: Dividend income by state, and the taxing of pot.
• IRS Problem Solver Blog: Leave-based IRS deductible donations.
• Taxes at About.com: Five ways to cut exposure to the Medicare surtax.
• Drake Software blog: TIGTA’s report and tidbits from the 2012 season.

Internationally speaking

• Expatriatetaxreturns.com: The punch of the U.S. Hire Act.
• Taxes for Expats: The U.S. joins with more than 50 jurisdictions to curb offshore tax evasion.
• International Tax Blog: Mexican Land Trust not a “trust” for American tax purposes.
• Tax, Society & Culture: Finding leadership for Canada’s tax-evasion problem.

The new era

• Tax Vox: The president’s revenue targets clarified.
• The Wandering Tax Pro: Deducting Sandy-related volunteering expenses.
• Rubin on Tax: The Wandry rollercoaster.
• Solutions for CPA Firm Leaders: Hiring them is easy, listening to them hard.
• Taxable Talk: The debt/pension shell game in Illinois. Plus, Phoenix woos California businesses.

Cliff notes

• Backtaxeshelp: What the cliff means.
• Roth & Co.: And how to push an AMT patch over that cliff.