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The annual battle of tax preparers is nasty, brutish, and short. TurboTax, which dominates online filing, and H&R Block Inc., with 10,000 U.S. locations, have three months to win over taxpayers before this year's April 18 deadline.

Accounting Degree Review, an online resource for accounting education and related topics, recently released its ranking of the 30 most affordable graduate accounting programs for 2016. The ranking factored in accreditation and tuition costs for out-of-state students enrolling in the 2015-2016 academic year.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

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

The Internal Revenue Service has been unable to get control of rampant identity theft this tax season, despite high-profile efforts to confront the problem with the help of private industry.

You’re an exceptional accounting firm. You deliver high-quality service, operate efficiently and keep information up-to-date and scrupulously accurate. And yet in spite of the immense value you bring to your customers, the increasingly competitive market in which you operate is making it harder than ever to differentiate your services.

The 12 most egregious tax scams of the year

Presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s tax proposals, which include cutting taxes for most individuals and replacing the corporate income tax with a flat 16 percent business tax, would reduce federal revenue by $8.6 trillion over a decade and “almost surely depress the economy over the long run,” according to a policy study and its authors.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Marrone Bio Innovations, a pesticide company, and its former chief operating officer, with inflating financial results to meet projections it would double revenues in its first year as a public company.

CFOs and audit committee chairs are not getting enough insights into corporate risk management from their companies’ internal audit function, according to a new survey.