Best of blogs--July 7-9

AAO cites an audit failure which allowed $340,000 to be stolen from a Native American casino in Minnesota. [8]

Financial Rounds marvels at a million-dollar mobile home in Malibu, CA (presumably no trailer park trash there). [6]

Free Money Finance window-shops a blog covering luxury goods. [8]

Death and Taxes covers the probate of the estate of a murder victim. [7]

In Taxing Times, Trish Mc Intyre criticizes Congress for proposing inclusion of a non-refundable payment for Offers in Compromise. [8]

Roth CPA Updates notes that Royal Oak Charcoal owners have sued KPMG for "smoking" them out of $188 million through dubious tax shelters (pun intended). [8]

Start Making Sense decries the astonishingly high effective tax rates on the working poor as government benefits are phased out. [7]

TaxProf mentions that a 1942 tax proposal is similar to a progressive consumption tax suggested by Professor Edward McCaffery to the President's tax reform commission. [9]

Wills, Trusts and Estates addresses Michael Allen's law article regarding procedural issues for end-of-life cases. [8]