Why We Publish From a Treatise
By Paul D. Diaz, EA, MBA ·
Most tax blogs exist to catch a search query, not to answer it. Somebody types "do I have to file if I only made $9,000" into a search bar, lands on eight hundred words of filler wrapped around an ad unit, and leaves knowing less than when they arrived. I have read those posts. They are written by nobody, reviewed by nobody, and accountable to nobody. That is not what this page is.
Everything published here is drawn from THE TAX CUTTERY Guide to Federal Income Taxation, the 600-page treatise I wrote for professionals — the same text my own desks work from. When an article on this blog tells you how the failure-to-file penalty actually compounds, that answer traces back to a numbered chapter, a cited section, and a body of law I am admitted to practice before the IRS to interpret. If the article and the treatise ever disagreed, the treatise would win, and I would fix the article.
That means we will publish more slowly than the content farms. It also means that when you read something here, you can act on it, and when you cannot act on it alone, the firm that wrote it is one conversation away. I would rather publish forty articles a year that hold up than four hundred that do not. The people who find us this way tend to become the clients we keep for decades, and that is the only growth metric I care about.
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