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Specific Topics: General subjects for articles suggested by The Tax Advisers Editorial Advisers and staff. 

Please note: At any given time, some topics are more current than others; TTA may have covered a topic recently or exhaustively; keep this in mind in selecting a subject to write about.

• AMT issues (individual or corporate)

• Accounting periods and methods

• Asset protection

• Bonds and exempt obligations

• Buy-sell agreements (from a CPAs perspective)

• Capital gains and losses

• Cash and currency reporting requirements

• Citizens living abroad

• Commuting expenses, deducting

• Compensation techniques, planning

• Competent authority practice

• Compliance and penalties

• Confidentiality

• Consolidated return planning

• Corporate mergers & acquisitions

• Criminal tax penalties

• Current developments in depreciation

• Debt restructuring

• Deductions and credits

• Discharge of indebtedness income (Sec. 108(a)(1)(D))

• Earnings and profits problems

• Employee benefits

• Employee stock options

• Employee versus independent contractor issues

• Employing U.S. nationals abroad, compensation and tax issues

• Environmental cleanup costs

• Estate planning strategies (from a CPAs perspective)

• Ethics in tax practice

• Exempt organizations

• Family tax issues (divorce, community property, income-shifting, kiddie tax, etc.)

• Filing status

• Foreign corporations & nonresident aliens doing business in the U.S.

• Foreign income and taxpayers

• Fringe benefits and passthrough entities

• Generation-skipping tax planning

• Hedgingrules and strategies

• Home office deductions

• Intangiblesdepreciation, valuation 

• Imputed interest

• Inventory

• Life insurance in estate planning

• Life insurance issues

• LLCs and LLPs

• Lobbying expenses

• Offers in compromise

• OID issues

• PHC issues

• Partnership issues (including anti-abuse rule)

• Passive loss planning

• Payroll taxes: acquisitions & mergers

• Pensions

• Planning for Sec. 531 (AET)

• Post-mortem checklist

• Pre-publication costs (expenses accrued by authors, deductions)

• Real estate ownership

• Related-party transactionsaccruals and sales

• S corporations

• SEPs

• Stock redemption agreements

• Tax aspects of bankruptcy

• Tax effect on the individual stockholder caught in a takeover, buyout, etc.

• Tax planning involving spreadsheet analysis

• Tax practice management

• Tax treatiese.g., permanent establishment rules

• Taxation of financial institutions

• Taxation of life insurance companies

• Tax technology (software, hardware, the Internet, intranets)

• Trust use (from a CPA perspective)

• Valuation of inventory

• Year-end tax planning

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