Best Personal Taxes
The nation's most trusted tax guide, updated for your 2017 returns J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2018 is the nation's most trusted tax guide, updated to help you prepare your 2017 return. Learn how the latest changes from the IRS affect your return Get trusted advice for maximizing deductions and sheltering income Navigate the many IRS forms with step-by-step guidance Start planning now to streamline next year's filing. For over 75 years, more than 39 million Americans have trusted J.K. Lasser to help them save money at tax time. 365-day-a-year tax news, advice, and guidance Ask J.K. Lasser! Easy-to-Use Format Explains Complex Tax Laws. FILING TIPS and FILING INSTRUCTIONS help you prepare your 2017 return PLANNING REMINDERS highlight year-end tax strategies for 2017 and planning opportunities for 2018 and later years CAUTIONS point out potential pitfalls to avoid and areas where you might expect IRS opposition LAW ALERTS indicate recent changes in the tax law and pending legislation before Congress COURT DECISIONS highlight key rulings from the Tax Court and other federal courts IRS ALERTS highlight key rulings and announcements from the IRS. 5. Traditional & Roth IRAs Chap. 24. Personal tax credits Chap. Strategies to Save You Taxes (Chaps. 30. Tax credits for education Chap. 33. Armed forces rules Chap. Planning Ideas for Your Business (Chaps. Home office deduction Chap. 40. Keogh, Simple, or SEP Chap.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I have moderately complex returns but always do them myself with the assistance of a computerized tax preparation program: I believe that I better understand tax law and rules by doing my own returns, although the experience is often very trying. I find it particularly helpful in determining the eligibility and legality of deductions and depreciation, as the IRS rules can be particularly bewildering in those areas sometimes."
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Revised secrets to maximizing your social security.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Given the choice of learning 3000 pages of Social Security law and tens of thousands of regulations, or having two front teeth pulled without anesthetic, most would choose the latter, if only because it's over quicker. Worse, Social Security is now up to three million requests every week, but Congress keeps cutting back budget, staff, hours and whole offices. Combine that with the complexity factor, and the authors conclude you cannot trust what Social Security advises. As an aside, there is an annual survey that always says the same thing: nearly 50% of Americans couldn't raise an emergency $2500 in 30 days, not from savings or even from friends and family."
"Through simple charts, the authors point out that millions of Americans are making a BIG MISTAKE by claiming benefits too early. I have always been confused about what the rules were for Social Security benefits. Besides explanation on spousal benefits, there are also chapters to cover special situations, such as parent benefits. I found the most valuable chapters the "Secrets" chapters: Chapter 16, "50 Good News Secrets to Higher Lifetime Benefits," and Chapter 17, "25 Bad News Gotchas that can Reduce Your Benefits Forever." The authors point out that Social Security employees are officially encouraged to sign you up and get your signature whenever you come in to an office and inquire about filing for benefits. In other words, they point out, the Social Security department itself is not really the right place to go for objective answers on how to get the most benefits."
• preparing for the job of executor or trustee. • the first steps to take. • claiming life insurance, Social Security and other benefits. • making sense of a will. • what to do if there is no will. • how to determine whether probate is necessary. • filing taxes. • probate court proceedings. • dealing with family members. • handling simple trusts. • working with lawyers, appraisers, accountants, and other experts. The 7th edition contains updated tables outlining key points of each state’s laws, the latest information on estate taxes, plus worksheets that help you stay organized. "Mary Randolph, an editor at Nolo, a publisher of do-it-yourself legal guides and author of. "The Executor's Guide," says it is a good idea to get a lawyer to help unwind a trust, especially if it will hold a significant amount of money. "The Executor's Guide [is] a super-detailed, step-by-step book that's a must-read."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Have only read excerpts from this book so far,but it has already helped me immensely."
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"Its a good general reference and starting point but plan on still having to deal with clerk of court a lot and possibly get an attorney knowledgable with your state's specific laws for more complex situations."
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Best Small Business Taxes
In clear, easy-to-understand language, the author covers: Getting permits and licenses How to finance a business Creating and using a business plan Choosing and protecting a business name Deciding whether to incorporate Establishing a complete bookkeeping system Hiring employees Federal, state, and local taxes Buying a business or franchise Dealing with—and avoiding—the IRS Doing business on the Internet Handling insurance, contracts, pricing, trademarks, and patents. A University of California lecturer, he is the author of five books on business and taxes. Written for small businesses, self-employed individuals, employers, professionals, independent contractors, home businesses, and Internet businesses, Small Time Operator. is the most popular business start-up guide ever.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I'm using this book mainly to reduce my taxes since I have a relatively high income with high income taxes and this book seems to contain the most detail and various ways I can deduct my taxes. The getting started chapter goes over business types (service, retail, manufacturing), business success info and advice, business location (mall, home, rural, industrial, zoning), financing (business loan types, grants, raising capital), legal structures (sole proprietor, LLC, etc. ), I just found out he wrote a different book that only covers tax deductions - had I known this, I would have bought that book. There are so many deductions that are explained, I'm glad that I bought this book so that I don't have to hire someone to tell me and do my taxes for me. The home business chapter is my second favorite since it also has tax-specific advice about home business. This is a great book for people who already have a pretty solid traditional small business and hope to improve upon it by expanding their business through expanding sales and hiring employees. Taxes are a headache, reading this book is a headache - but that is mostly because taxes are a complicated issue for most laypeople trying to start a business."
"I probably should write this review after I've finished reading it."
"Anyone starting a small business could really use this!"
"Phenomenal book!"
"Great information for a beginner."
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"Has a lot of detail and a well structured table of contents to make searching for a particular topic a breeze."
"I had a copy of this book from the 1970's and loved it to pieces."
Best International Taxes
To illustrate the positive and normative effects of international trade and trade policy, Ricardo takes the reader and Ed Johnson into the future to see an America of free trade and an America of complete self-sufficiency.
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"Interesting read."
"This was a great little read."
"I found the book particularly helpful for my Macro class."
"I'll use the book's example and say the best thing to compare it to is "It's a Wonderful Life" only econ style!"
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"A very readable book."
Best Corporate Taxes
Eventually, you may even be able to legally eliminate your income taxes and drastically reduce your other taxes. With a background that includes a wide variety of professional experienceranging from Big 4 accounting, where he managed and led the professional training for thousands of CPAs at Ernst & Young’s National Tax Department in Washington, D.C., to in-house tax advisor for Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, at the time a Fortune 1000 companyTom’s experience is extensive and varied. He also served as an adjunct professor in the Masters of Tax program at Arizona State University for 14 years.
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"Best book in this series in my opinion."
"great book on Tax and the author is spot on how the government wants us to spend the money."
"I bought the audio book and the hardcopy."
"Super pleased with Tom Wheelright's strategies and philosophy."
"As a self-employed person, I found out how critical it is to set up legal entities around you to protect what you have and if you do this right, you can save big in taxes."