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Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Procedurally Taxing

Posted on July 26, 2018

Today marks the 5th Anniversary of the first Procedurally Taxing post. As we have mentioned before, the blog is the brainchild of Les. He recruited Steve and me to join him in this endeavor as he recruited us to join him in working on the “IRS Practice and Procedure” treatise. When we met to discuss the blog prior to the first post, we anticipated that we might post once or twice a week. Before the end of the first year, we were posting almost daily, and we have tried to keep up the daily posting practice though there are days when we do not get our act together. Regular readers know our blog does not run like clockwork but rather operates based on the varying schedules of those of us trying to pull it together.

In the first post Welcome to Procedurally Taxing! Les wrote the following:

Welcome to Procedurally Taxing. Our blog will be a place where you can learn about important developments in federal tax procedure and tax administration, as well as occasional musings on general items that interest us. We started this blog because we want to be a site that readers can trust to learn about important developments. In addition, Keith, Steve and I are all involved in editing and rewriting books that deal with tax procedure; we are constantly reading and thinking about cases and administrative developments that may not jump out at the reader. We will highlight some of these less obvious developments and provide analysis and context reflective of our many years of practice in the area.

The most amazing stats of our first five years involve you. We have 1841 email subscribers to the blog. It has been 1825 days since we started. We have maintained a pace of approximately one additional email subscriber per day since the beginning of the blog. We know that readers access the blog through media other than email but the one additional subscriber per day stat has been a constant. You have accessed the web site slightly over 750,000 times since we started.

Some other stats about the blog:

– 373 guest posts written on a wide variety of topics which greatly enriched the blog

– 332 posts by Les, 372 by Keith, 164 by Stephen and 3 by Christine (plus 10 guest posts)

– 96 posts by frequent guest blogger Carl Smith

– 392 comments by frequent commenter Bob Kamman

In addition to bringing on Christine as a regular contributor, we have added regular bloggers Samantha Galvin, William Schmidt, Caleb Smith and Patrick Thomas, who comment on the Tax Court’s designated orders.

We hope that we have met our stated goal to keep you current on important developments in federal tax procedure and administration. We also have reported on less obvious developments and we have definitely provided our views on the developments.

As we mark this anniversary we invite you to comment on the blog – the good, the bad and the ugly. Tell us about anything that has made the blog useful or not useful to you and tell us how we can improve it going forward. Thanks for being our loyal readers. Our hats are off to you.

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