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Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

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

The IRS and the Treasury Department have accepted a request for guidance under the IRS’s Industry Issue Resolution Program regarding capitalization rules used by restaurants.

So, what are you forgetting about preparing for next season?

Adam Blitz, a manager at the accounting firm Wiebe Hinton Hambalek LLP in Fresno, Calif., discusses why it's a good idea to sell more services to existing clients, in an interview with AccountingToday.com editor-in-chief Michael Cohn at Accounting Today's Growth & Profitability Summit in Boca Raton, Fla.

A father and son who ran a tax-preparation business were convicted in Los Angeles of conspiring to help clients cheat the Internal Revenue Service by setting up undeclared offshore bank accounts.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a revenue procedure that describes several safe harbor methods of accounting for certain property costs paid or incurred by cable system operators.

U.S. Congressman Michael Grimm pleaded guilty to a federal tax charge, taking the possibility of prison time in stride as he told reporters after the proceeding that he won’t give up his House seat.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a new publication to help taxpayers better understand how the Affordable Care Act affects their taxes.

The Tax Increase Prevention Act extends the provision that allows certain IRA owners to make tax-free distributions to charity.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has released its Semiannual Report to Congress, with a special focus on how the Internal Revenue Service has handled its responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act.

Bank Leumi Le-Israel Ltd. agreed to pay $400 million and admit it helped American clients evade taxes for a decade.

New York Representative Michael Grimm reportedly will plead guilty to a single count of tax evasion less than two months after winning re-election to Congress.

And so it begins, the time of year when you’re likely to get inundated with appointment requests and phone calls from your small business clients, looking for advice to help them save money and protect them from potential IRS penalties as they close out the books for 2014.

ClientyWhys has launched TaxBuzz.com, a free online directory of tax professionals.

Next month, the IRS will auction off Darryl Strawberry’s right to receive payments under his deferred comp agreement with the New York Mets.

SocialCPAs and Inovautus Consulting have released the results of their annual survey of how accounting firms use social media, and the results are not encouraging.

Jill Lock, director of marketing at Isdaner & Company, discusses how her firm gets the word out about services such as art taxation, in an interview with AccountingToday.com editor-in-chief Michael Cohn at Accounting Today's Growth & Profitability Summit in Boca Raton, Fla.

As a follow-up to last week’s column, here are some value-added benefits to consider when performing obligatory services such as an audit or tax return, or any work for a client.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.