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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.
I built it for the space in between — primary-source analysis in language you can use in a real client conversation the same day you read it.
Two things land in your inbox:
Deep Dive (Tuesdays, paid) — one topic, taken all the way down: how a provision actually works, where the ambiguity lives, and what it changes about the advice you’re giving.
Week in Tax (Fridays, free) — what moved this week, in five minutes or less.
Forrest Baumhover, CFP, EA
Forrest is a Naval Academy graduate and 20-year Navy Supply Corps veteran who built a second career in tax and financial planning. He’s a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional and an IRS Enrolled Agent. Before The Federal Tax Desk, he built and sold Teach Me! Personal Finance — a website and YouTube channel with more free, step-by-step tax form walkthroughs, articles and videos, than any other site, including the IRS.
Now he’s building The Federal Tax Desk: primary-source federal tax analysis for CPAs, EAs, and independent practitioners, published every Tuesday and sourced entirely from the IRC, IRM, and Tax Court — no secondary summaries, no fluff.
The Federal Tax Desk is written for the people who do this work for a living — not the DIY filer, but the practitioner sitting across from taxpayers who need help.
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