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Who You Gonna Call? Not the IRS – A Guide to IRS Online Tools
You don’t have to be a tax geek to know the IRS has trouble picking up the phone. Old habits die hard. If you have a tax question, what do you do? You call the IRS. Good luck with that. You’ll be on hold for a long time if you can get through at all. The IRS initiated a call-back feature, but it’s not always available. The hold music is uninspiring; sometimes, after holding for hours, you get the dreaded “courtesy disconnect.” Yikes! Let’s face it. The IRS has a full plate; years of doing more with less have crippled the agency. Congress is quick to excoriate the IRS for poor service but keeps piling on more tasks (without necessary funding). Luckily, the IRS is working hard to provide more and better online applications and resources. There’s a lot out there, some well-known, some not so well-known, click here to take a tour and discover which shortcuts will help you most.
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A Court Just Bought Your Clients More Time on Clean Energy Tax Credits Here’s How to Use It
A federal district court just struck down an IRS rule that had been closing the door on a pretty compelling tax savings opportunity available to your clients today, the Section 48E Clean Electricity Investment Tax Credit. The ruling, handed down on June 6, 2026, reinstated a key pathway that allows investors to lock in credit eligibility for large-scale wind and solar projects a pathway the IRS had tried to eliminate just last year. The window is not wide open. July 4, 2026 is still the critical deadline, and the government will almost certainly appeal. But for advisors who act quickly, this ruling creates a genuine, time-sensitive planning opportunity. Here is what you need to understand, and what you should be doing right now.
Your Summer Tax Practice Playbook: Three Moves to Make Before Labor Day
Tax Day is finally in the rearview mirror, and if you’re like many practitioners—with the phones quieter, the inbox manageable, and the September extension wave feeling comfortably far away—the temptation right now is to coast. Resist that temptation. Summer is the only stretch of the calendar when both you and your best clients have the bandwidth to think strategically; furthermore, this summer, there is a deadline-driven opportunity. In this article, I’ll walk through three moves every practitioner should be making between now and Labor Day. The first move has a hard statutory deadline of July 10, 2026. The second move is about turning your highest-value client conversations into billable advisory engagements. And third is about tending to the practice itself because a tax practice, like a garden, doesn’t survive without care.
What Every Client Should Know About Partnership Distributions
Perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of partnership taxation relates to distributions. When a partnership distributes cash or property to its partners, the tax consequences can range from completely tax-free to significantly taxable, depending on how the distribution is structured and the partners’ tax basis in their partnership interests. In this article, we’ll explore the rules governing partnership distributions and how they impact partners’ tax situations. More importantly, we’ll look at strategies to structure distributions in the most tax-efficient manner possible – because the goal is not just to understand the rules but to use them advantageously.
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