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

7 questions to help protect your business clients

There’s probably no one “right” time for tax preparers to start a newsletter, but the end of summer might be an optimum time. Vacation memories are beginning to fade, and people are gearing up to get back into the real world of work, busy schedules and tax.

The Affordable Care Act has new surprises this year that can trip up employers and their advisors, experts warn.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department are providing new guidance on the requirements for professional employer organizations seeking voluntary certification, relaxing some of the original requirements for submitting written opinions and attestations from CPAs.

The Internal Revenue Service is offering a safe harbor for businesses using property that has been financed with tax-exempt bonds.

When the European Union pressured Switzerland to scrap tax breaks for foreign companies, Geneva had the most to lose. Now, the canton that’s home to almost 1,000 multinationals is set to use tax to burnish its appeal.

Jacob J. Lew looks set to close out his tenure as one of just two Treasury secretaries to serve during the Obama administration. Not since the days of Eisenhower has a two-term U.S. president had such stability at the helm of the Treasury Department.

The U.S. is stepping up its effort to convince the European Commission to refrain from hitting Apple Inc. and other companies with demands for possibly billions of euros in underpaid taxes.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development issued last October the final Base Erosion and Profit Shifting reports that are expected to fundamentally change the course of international taxation and transfer pricing for all multinational enterprises.