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

European Union competition chief Margrethe Vestager said Thursday morning she’s ready to investigate Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s 130 million-pound ($185.5 million) tax deal with the U.K. if there are complaints. It didn’t take long for the first to surface.

Samuel Wyly’s lawyer, fighting a $2.2 billion claim by the Internal Revenue Service, told a skeptical judge that his client’s tax planning was “aggressive but not illegal.”

Companies shouldn’t be able to get away with paying very low taxes—or none at all—in countries where they earn profits, EU Economic Affairs and Tax Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said as he introduced a package of proposals designed to curb tax evasion.

The heads of three CPA firms, EisnerAmper, Grassi & Co., and GBQ, discussed some of the trends they have been seeing in the profession, and the struggles they have experienced at their firms at the Winning Is Everything conference in Las Vegas last week.

Some accountants bristle at the idea of selling their services.

Top 100 firm Henry & Horne, LLP has acquired a sole practitioner’s firm, Centerpoint Advisors, effective January 1.

Tax pros share their most confusing forms, clients and more. (Text version)

WeiserMazars has acquired Lion & Company CPAs, an accounting and advisory firm in Syosset, N.Y., expanding WeiserMazars’ Entrepreneurial Services and Health Care Consulting services.

Most of the proposals that Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have pitched for taxing the rich won’t go anywhere if Republicans keep control of the House of Representatives, as expected.