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Is it time to move away from staying independent for as long as you can and pivot to cashing out and merging up before the inevitable enhanced tax rates kick in and your general compliance shop’s worth diminishes?

Even cloud-based software requires a plan for keeping client data safe.

Cash for enforcement; lessons in fraud; when a deduction isn’t a subsidy; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Even though IRS employees making compliance determinations are bound to apply the tax law fairly to all taxpayers, it’s not unusual for a taxpayer and the IRS to disagree about the proper application of the law.

Just getting through tax season is not a strategy.

Companies need to make sure that their solution providers have reliable controls.

If you don’t receive a five-star rating from a client, don’t get angry or brush it off.

The trend toward increasing FUSF rates has been on a steady march upward for years.

Virtually all tax advisors have accepted the inevitability of taxes increasing. The only open questions seem to be when and how high.

The breaks on COBRA and unemployment; are you a good leader?; Boomer on the workplace of the future; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.