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Tax practitioners today face numerous professional and ethical issues that can be quite taxing. CPAs, tax attorneys, and return preparers must comply with an array of AICPA, ABA, IRS, and Tax Court rules to avoid costly penalties, malpractice liability, or censure. Standards of Tax Practice-Fifth Edition will help you protect yourself and your practice by explaining the rules and standards of professional conduct and a practitioner's professional, ethical, and legal obligations. Now you can get expert advice from the most distinguished authorities in the field. Bringing unsurpassed experience, authors, Bernard Wolfman, James P. Holden, and Kenneth L. Harris evaluate the roles of the practitioner as both advocate and advisor in the settings of compliance, controversy, and tax planning, including such hot topics as corporate tax shelters and the new tax practitioner privileges.