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1 PassKey EA Review Part 1: Individual Taxation; IRS Enrolled Agent Exam Study Guide 2017-2018 Edition
The hundreds of targeted questions and answers will prepare you for the EA exam offered during the May 1, 2017, to February 28, 2018, testing window.This volume includes updated tax law provisions of the Affordable Care Act as well as the PATH Act extenders that are applicable to the 2016 tax year. New authentication and renewal procedures for ITINs Updated due dates for individuals and entities applicable to the 2016 filing season The new accelerated filing dates for information returns New FBAR requirements and filing deadlines Updated due diligence requirements for the AOTC and the Child Tax Credit And much, much more! Very useful, I passed the 1st and 2nd EA exams by reading only PassKey. Very useful, I passed 1st and 2nd exams by reading the PassKey EA Review only, if you are willing to spend some time to read the whole book thoroughly, then this book is the only thing you need to pass the EA exams.
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While the United States experiences recession and economic stagnation and European countries face bankruptcy, experts struggle to make sense of the crisis. *The rampant practices that precipitated the latest financial crisis can be traced back to Wall Street's offshoring practices. *For every dollar of aid we send to developing countries, ten dollars leave again by the backdoor. The offshore system sits much closer to home than the pristine tropical islands of the popular imagination. “Shaxson's story of offshore banking is nothing short of Shakespearean, a drama full of secrecy, treachery and corruption in which wealthy countries, companies and individuals collude to horde wealth in a complex global network of largely unregulated tax havens. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the hidden reasons why financial services firms have become so powerful and impossible to reform.” ― Yves Smith, creator of Naked Capitalism and author of Econned. More importantly, it lays bare the mechanism that financial capital has been using to stay in charge: capturing government policy-making around the world, shaking off such irritants as democracy and the rule of law, and making sure that suckers like you and me pay for its operators' opulent lifestyles.” ― Misha Glenny, author of McMafia: A Journey through the Global Criminal Underworld. Shaxson does an outstanding and socially valuable job in penetrating the impenetrable and finds a deeply shocking world.” ― Nicholas Stern, former Chief Economist for The World Bank. If you're wondering how ordinary people ended up paying for a crisis caused by the reckless greed of the banking industry, this compellingly readable book provides the answers.” ― David Wearing, School of Public Policy, UCL, London's Global University. This masterpiece illuminates the dark places and shows the visible hand of governments, corporations, banks, accountants, lawyers and other pirates in creating fictitious offshore transactions and structures and picking our pockets. Nicholas Shaxson has done a wonderful job in lifting the lid off the inbuilt corruption that has become so naturalized in the western world.” ― Prem Sikka, Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, UK. But the task is well worthy of examination, as it is so vital to the shadowy infrastructure of the global financial system… provides an easily digestible overview of the labyrinthine nature of the world of offshore finance.” ― Seeking Alpha.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"All that is needed now is some resolve to fix what are very grubby activities that seem to started in earnest with the Nazis but carried on with resolve and commitment by the Bank of England and numerous British protectorates aided and abetted by most major retail and investment banks."
"The "race to the bottom" for the least taxes and regulation are led by offshore havens such as Jersey and the Caymans, US States such as Delaware and South Dakota, and to the ultimate onshore that has become offshore within London itself, the Corporation of London or "The City" as it is often known. Indexes like the Global Financial Integrity Index (measuring corruption) provide a more sobering view of developed countries system of politics than the standard tables (usually providing a broad separation between developed and developing countries when it comes to corruption). Proposed law amendments such as the White House Interstate Lending Amendment provide an issue to rally around as well as a direction to keep looking, regardless of the comprises that are made in the meantime."
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"It provides a well structured and documented overview about the history and current status of tax havens and their disastrous effects on the world economy."
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"Rich elites with utterly depraved lack of morality are cheating, lying and thieving against the rest of the world's population in places such as that vile cesspool of depravity the Isle of Jersey, in the Cayman Islands--a vile place that has enabled criminality of the worst sort, of foolish places like the state of Delaware that allowed themselves to enable the destruction of their fellow Americans through the elimination on limits on interest payments and most of all through the actions of a little-known knothole within London, England known as the City of London. While pretending to be honorable professionals, the bankers and hedge fund managers and accountants and attorneys who enable the practices described in detail in this book are the worst sort of scum, stealing from the poor, forcing others to pay the taxes they shirk, all while these same people benefit from the stable societies in the countries where they live and whose taxes they don't pay. The super wealthy in America but all over the world now evade taxes almost 100% while whining and complaining about those same taxes, in the most astounding and shocking and angering display of venality you can imagine. In truth, no matter how bad you thought it was--these people who do business in Bermuda, in the Cayman Islands, in the Bahamas, in Manhattan, in Delaware, in the Isle of Jersey, Gurnsey, the Isle of Man, in the financial center of London called the "City of London" and in a thousand other places across the world--are 1,000,000 times worse than in your worst horror imaginings."
A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation Revolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political and economic future of the British Empire. “By resurrecting the eighteenth century British debate over which direction the country should take in such fine detail, du Rivage has greatly enriched our understanding of what the participants thought was at stake and why they therefore made the decisions that they did.”— Journal of the American Revolution. It makes a novel case which restores the role of ideology in the study of eighteenth century Britain and its policies in America. "Du Rivage’s brilliant Revolution Against Empire returns political economy squarely to the center of the American revolutionary experience, boldly overturning old certainties and offering a timely meditation on the nature of taxation, representation, and the role of the state in worldly affairs. "In this meticulously researched and lucidly written book, du Rivage brilliantly traces the ideological differences in the British Empire that gave birth to political factions and ultimately sparked the American Revolution.
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"The author presents the events surrounding the Revolution as the product of an ideological struggle within both Britain and the colonies, not just between them."