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Your accounting firm's clients are counting on you to understand fraud risk in the Age of AI.

Accountants are no longer just educating clients about tax law, but actively dismantling AI-generated fiction before it turns into audit-triggering liability.

Guidance from the IRS on AI captures only part of the picture. The obligations it describes are real and enduring. What it does not fully address is how the frameworks for meeting them were built for a different generation.

Fight belongs at federal level; Circular 230 still matters; make everything stick; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Supreme Court left in place a decision that should change how practitioners talk to clients about old returns and how to evaluate the people who prepared them.

AI will change the first few years of an accounting career but doesn't reduce the need for people who understand the numbers. In many ways, it raises the bar.

The accounting talent shortage is now a structural feature of the finance and accounting sector.

AI technology is new, so it feels like it should demand a new kind of governance. It doesn't. The profession already has the answer inhouse.

For many taxpayers — especially those with variable, limited or short-term tax capacity — credit transferability provides a practical and effective solution.

For practitioners willing to learn the rules, Trump accounts are the best client acquisition and retention opportunity we've had in a decade.