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In the blogs: Stepping off

Nuances of VAT; financial gift ideas; welcome, outstanding offenders; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Stepping off

Widespread developments

Simply put

  • Canopy (https://www.getcanopy.com/blog): Three big topics from a recent webinar – capacity management, tax season and virtual firms — reveal new challenges to staying on task and keeping teams and clients happy. Five tips to help handle these challenges. Among them: Go digital wherever possible and pin clients down ASAP.
  • Taxbuzz (https://www.taxbuzz.com/blog): How homeowners' associations can avoid seven common tax pitfalls.
  • Boyum & Barenscheer (https://www.myboyum.com/blog/): Even when they're nonprofits, trade associations and chambers of commerce generally qualify for a tax exemption under Sec. 501(c)(6). And these "business leagues" must adhere to a unique set of rules. 
  • Don't Mess with Taxes (http://dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com/): When the recipient is a young adult, this time of year doesn't have to mean another jaunt to the mall or a clickfest with Amazon. Financial gift ideas.
  • Marcum (https://www.marcumllp.com/insights): Favorite headline of the week: "A Simple Calculation Does Not Imply a Simple Conclusion."
  • Taxable Talk (http://www.taxabletalk.com/): Nominations now open for Tax Offender of the Year.
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