Tax Practitioner Intelligence
Tax Practitioner Intelligence is Owen’s current media and publishing platform: one numbered editorial series coordinated across written analysis, podcasting, video, the weekly practitioner briefing, and practitioner discussion.
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Television appearances
FOX40 Sacramento
Owen appeared live on KTXL FOX40 Sacramento as a tax expert on multiple occasions, discussing tax-season and taxpayer issues for a general audience. The appearances are part of a broader record of consumer education, radio, interviews, speaking, and practitioner-focused media.
TaxSense: Keeping What’s Yours
From 2012 through spring 2014, Owen hosted TaxSense: Keeping What’s Yours in Sacramento. The program began as a one-hour Saturday broadcast on KHTK 1140 and later moved to KTKZ 1380 The Answer, expanding to two hours from noon to 2:00 p.m.
The surviving archive covers tax planning, IRS issues, small-business taxation, real estate, Social Security, retirement, financial planning, risk management, and related topics.
Books & professional contributions
Owen has contributed interviews, practitioner perspective, and written material to professional tax and business publications, including The Enrolled Agent Tax Consulting Practice Guide.
Published articles and historical Q&A
Owen’s earlier writing includes tax and IRS-examination articles published in Backstage, alongside a historical public tax-planning Q&A presence on AllExperts. Read the original publications below or visit Books & Publications.
- Common Miscues That May Get You Audited This Tax Season ↗https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/tax-audit-actor-advice-4969/
- 3 More Common Mistakes That May Get You Audited ↗https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/common-mistakes-may-get-audited-4808/
- 3 Tax Mistakes That Could Get You Audited + 1 Big Goof If You Do ↗https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/tax-mistakes-get-audited-big-goof-3950/
- What to Do If You’re Audited by the IRS ↗https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/what-to-do-if-youre-audited-by-the-irs-68927/
These links lead to historical third-party publications, not updated 2026 tax guidance.
Current topic areas
- Adverse authority, counterarguments, and trying to prove the initial conclusion wrong
- Why practitioner judgment should remain supreme
- Fact discipline before tax conclusions
- Tax savings versus Net Economic Benefit
- Reasonable compensation as an annual process
- When an S corporation actually makes sense
- How experienced practitioners recognize planning opportunities
- Why good planning fails without implementation