Find a thread in a tax blog involving consolidated returns. Post an entry to the site concerning acceptable tax allocation formulas. Which tax-sharing methods have been most popular with the blogger’s clients? Why? Have specific tax-sharing methods become more or less popular over time? What difficulties are encountered in gaining the affiliates’ consent to a tax-sharing method? Has the blogger created any new and unique variations on the most common tax-sharing methods? If so, how and why did these new formulas come about? Write an e-mail to your professor summarizing the following.

a. The text of your posted message.

b. The most pertinent responses that you received in the first week after posting.

c. The professional titles of other posters to the group and the other questions that they are discussing.