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The Federal Tax Desk is plain-English federal tax analysis for CPAs, EAs, and tax preparers who bill by the relationship, not the return.

Most tax writing online falls into one of two camps:

• Dense enough to need a research-service subscription, or

• General enough to leave a working practitioner with more questions than answers.

This is built for the space in between — primary-source analysis, translated into language you can use in an actual client conversation the same day you read it.

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I’m Forrest Baumhover, CFP, EA. Before tax, I spent 20+ years in the Navy Supply Corps, then built and sold a financial planning practice. From there, I then built Teach Me! Personal Finance, a website and YouTube portfolio that contains the largest tax form resource library, with more tax form articles AND walkthrough videos than any other site, including the IRS.

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