Review Comments | 07.17.09

• IRS & California Slap $1.9m Tax Liens Against Pamela Anderson – And her two friends. [TaxProf Blog]

• How to Keep Your Firm Out of Trouble in this Holiday Party Season – Not listed: Don’t let interns attend. [CPA Trendlines]

• Superstar Finance Blogger Week 3: Francine McKenna at re: The Auditors – Hey, we’ve heard of her! [Blogging Suits]

• House Approves 45 Percent Estate Tax Extension – So much for dying in 2010. [Web CPA]

• OTB Enters Bankruptcy Protection – Speaking of death. Will you miss the plight? [City Room/NYT]

• The Code is 23! – Happy, happy. [Tax Update Blog]
• Accounting Firms Succeed Despite Economic Slump – “CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business, surveyed 100 U.S. accounting firms and found that even in a contracted economy, none of the firms have lowered their rates.” [Web CPA]
• Microsoft Tries to Lose ‘PC Guy’ Image With Windows 7 – Hodgman. We warned you. [Bloomberg]
• Is $5,500 Golf Cart Credit Emblematic of “Tax Policy in the Age of Obama” – WSJ op-ed criticizing the President’s policy? The horror. [TaxProf Blog]
• Fraud Reported in Program to Help New Homebuyers – “Some claims were filed for children as young as 4 years old.” [NYT]

• BofA fails to meet congressional deadline – In a move that is either ballsy or just plan stupid, KL and his merry band of mates decided that the deadline wasn’t a real deadline. [Reuters]
• Did Wells Fargo’s Auditors Miss Repurchase Risk? (WFC) – Our contributor, Francine McKenna’s, take on WFC and KPMG and the parallels to New Century. [Clusterstock]
• Congressional Report Says A.I.G. Has Stabilized – Whether or not they pay back the gazillion dollars they owe the Treasury is another matter entirely. [NYT]
• High-Yield Bond Buying Starting to Get ‘Ridiculous’ – That’s more like it. [Bloomberg]