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Shipping SUCKS!!!!!!!!
I ordered this two months ago.Got an extension on 2006 filing because AMAZON said it wouldn't ship until yesterday April 29 (yeah right) Now today Amazon says it will not ship until May 19. WHAT IS GOING ON AMAZON?!?!?!

JK Lasser Taxes
Book is well written and comprehensive. It catagorizes the tax laws and give easy to understand examples.

Taxpayer's Reference Guide
Your Income Tax for 2006, by J.K. Lasser
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Consumer Finance    4. Handbooks, manuals, etc    5. Income tax    6. Personal Finance    7. Personal Finance - Taxation    8. Tax returns    9. Taxation - General    10. United States    11. Business & Economics / Taxation / General    12. Taxation   

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Crucial Information
This book contains must have information for anyone owning an IRA. I had a previous version and wanted to keep current as I approach the magic age. This book tells you how to avoid fines and penalties from the dastardly IRS. Keep as much of your hard earned savings as possible for as long as possible by reading this book several times then saving it for future reference. I also marked many pages for my beneficiaries just in case. Do yourself a favor and invest in this book.

Very User Friendly!
The book is well organized.I was able to use it, immediately, to answer 'basic questions' to help a relative avoid a costly mistake and, more importantly, to learn 'options' that could help.Though I am an insurance agent, I've had little exposure to the 401(k), IRA, etc., market.This book is quickly moving me to the 'top 20% group' of informed agents and financial advisors.I highly recommend it, thanks to Ed Slott!

Pay attention to the sub-title
The reviewer plugging the "MarketBuster" book has totally missed the point of this NOLO book, which is given in the subtitle: Taking Your Money Out. The reviewer is talking about strategies for growing your account.
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Subjects:  1. 401(k) plans    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Consumer Finance    5. Deferred compensation    6. Individual retirement accounts    7. Law and legislation    8. Personal Finance    9. Personal Finance - 401k    10. Personal Finance - General    11. Personal Finance - IRA    12. Personal Finance - Retirement Planning    13. Personal Finance - Taxation    14. Popular works    15. Retirement Plans    16. Tax Law    17. Taxation    18. United States   

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Covers the new law comprehensively and accessibly
To begin with, bankruptcy law changed completely as of October 17, 2005 for really the first time since 1978. Therefore, all books published before that date are pretty much worthless since they are giving you outdated advice on the old law. Of the ones that are in print covering the new law that I have looked through, this one seems to be the best combination of accessible and complete. It does a good job of answering common questions that a person would ask about bankruptcy in the new environment, as well as going into painstaking detail about all of the changes to the law, including the new means test. Included are the steps you need to take to declare bankruptcy, the order in which you need to take them, and the forms you need to fill out. The book also talks about impacts to your life you might not have thought of, such as how declaring bankruptcy might impact your ability to get certain types of jobs or even auto insurance of all things! The reason I have read so much about this is not that I have declared or am planning to declare bankruptcy. Just call me an interested citizen that followed the debate over the new law very carefully and therefore I know a little more than the average citizen about what is in the new law. That is how I know that this book covers and emphasizes the changes so well. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Bankruptcy    2. Bankruptcy & Insolvency    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Consumer Finance    5. Estate Planning    6. Law    7. Personal Finance - General    8. Popular works    9. Tax Law    10. Taxation    11. United States   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Taxation    5. Taxation - General    6. Business & Economics / Taxation / General    7. USA   

Subjects:  1. Government - Legislative Branch    2. Government - U.S. Government    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Taxation    6. Business & Economics / Taxation / General    7. USA   

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OK as a reference dictionary
The book is useful as a reference dictionary of accounting and tax related terminology.I was expecting instead a listing of deductions as implied by the title.

Best Layman's Tax Book
No tax code just no non-sense explainations of what is and is not deductible. I am a tax preparer and I give these to all of my small business clients

Great addition to your library of books on biz deductions
This is a great book for starters. It shows each deduction with explanation. I still use it as a reference before calling my accountant. There is not much surprises as far as new deductions but this books is a great addition to your reference library.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Reference - General    4. Small Business - General    5. Small Business/Entrepreneurship    6. Taxation    7. Business & Economics / Reference   

Editorial Review

Problems resulting from tax law blunders aren't new. Tax attorney Michael Savage contends, however, that small businesses that run afoul of the Internal Revenue Service and face big fines are often not guilty of malfeasance; rather, he says, they simply lack the wherewithal to handle complicated regulations as competently as their larger counterparts. In Read more

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Excellent Text
Simply an excellent little book, concise and written in a very clear format. Indeed, not making just one of the many mistakes the author comments upon could save your business thousands in taxes, fines and penalties.
Too much exaggeration
The contents in this book are not really new. The author tends to exaggerate things quite a bit. Examples in the book may be true, but grossly sensationalized and hardly applicable to any real world case.

Great book - concise and helpful
This book outlines 76 ways that small businesses often get in trouble with the IRS. A lot of these mistakes are very tempting to make -- in fact, onecan argue that it's the tax law that's the problem in many cases, not thebusiness practice. Nonetheless, the author makes clear the IRS position onthese mistakes, and shows how damaging the mistakes can be when the IRSwins in tax court over the business owners.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Income tax    4. Law and legislation    5. Popular works    6. Small Business - General    7. Small Business Finance    8. Small Business/Entrepreneurship    9. Small business    10. Tax Accounting    11. Taxation    12. Taxation - General    13. United States    14. Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law    15. Small businesses & self-employed    16. USA   

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Excellent, Especially the Advice on Dealing with the IRS
Easy-to-read, well organized, and thoroughly helpful. I recommend "Taxes 2005 for Dummies" to people who want to prepare their own taxes, either by hand or by computer. Excellent advice and strategies for dealing with the IRS.
Readable and Helpful
I purchased this book because I was using TaxCut Standard, which is not very helpful at times, and I got stuck on a particular form. This book helped me to understand the Individual 1040, using language that is more clear and personable than the official IRS instructions. Comprehensive, but sometimes vague
I like this book a lot, because it gave me great ideas about how to structure my finances to take advantage of the tax deductions the government provides.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Income Taxes    4. Income tax    5. Law and legislation    6. Personal Finance    7. Personal Finance - Taxation    8. Popular works    9. Tax planning    10. Tax returns    11. United States    12. British Isles    13. Business & Economics / Personal Finance / Taxation    14. Taxation   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Taxation - General    5. Business & Economics / Taxation / General    6. Taxation    7. USA   

Subjects:  1. Corporations    2. Law    3. Law and legislation    4. Taxation    5. United States   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Construction Management    4. Construction contracts    5. Engineering - Civil    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Management - General    8. Taxation    9. United States    10. Building construction & materials    11. English law: environment law    12. English law: planning law    13. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    14. Technology / Engineering / Civil   

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Has serious mathematical errors
This book is good as an overview to give you a starting point of what you can use as quantitative methods in managing projects. However the book contains mathematical errors, not typos but actual reasoning errors ... use with caution.
Walks the reader through its mathematical formulas
Quantitative Methods In Project Management by John C. Goodpasture (President and Founder of Square Peg Consulting, a consulting firm specializing in the field of project management) is a straightforward business guide to calculating project values and using basic metrics to measure success. Written especially for corporate and governmental project workers who are not necessarily advanced students of mathematical theory, Quantitative Methods In Project Management carefully , clearly, and comprehensively walks the reader through its mathematical formulas and principles, and is a great resource for learning how to quickly and accurately access the worth of a project goal. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business Mathematics    4. Business/Economics    5. Management - General    6. Management Science    7. Mathematical models    8. Planning    9. Project Management    10. Personal finance    11. Taxation    12. USA   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Communications    3. Europe    4. International    5. Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights    9. Political Science    10. Politics/International Relations    11. Privacy, Right of    12. Telecommunication    13. Telecommunications    14. United States    15. Communications law    16. Constitutional & administrative law    17. Germany    18. Law / General    19. USA   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Auditing - General    3. Business & Economics    4. Business/Economics    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Popular works    7. Tax courts    8. Tax protests and appeals    9. Taxation    10. Taxation - General    11. United States    12. Business & Economics / Taxation / General    13. Finance & Accounting    14. Business    15. Career   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Financial    2. Accounting - General    3. Business & Economics    4. Business / Economics / Finance    5. Business/Economics    6. Taxation    7. Taxation - General    8. Accounting    9. Business & Economics / Accounting / General    10. Taxation law   

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An excellent technical resource
The nonprofit sector is a huge part of the American economy. Nonprofits range from multinationals to your local little league. While, technically, the same body of tax laws applies to all of them, the level of sophistication varies as dramatically as the size of the nonprofit. And while the big nonprofits can afford to buy expertise, smaller nonprofits have to manage more of the tasks themselves. This book can help. Very comprehensive "hornbook."
In mid-1999 I read this treatise in conjunction with the author's one day course on the Law of Tax Exempt Organizations.The book is essentially a "hornbook:"a summary of law geared towards lawyers andaccountants, rather than the casual reader.It would be especially helpfulfor lawyers and accountants in outside firms who counsel a variety ofdifferent tax exempt organizations and are confronted with questions of howto structure an organization or several related organizations.Thematerial is valuable but no easy slogging, so if you can take the course(which in mid-1999 was approx. $230 and included the book), it would beworth the extra $70 or so.

The single most important treatise on the law of nonprofits
US nonprofit boards, officers, senior managers, and funddevelopment professionals have enough to contend with without alsoracing to keep pace with the accelerating changes in the multi-faceted law of tax-exempt organizations.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Business/Economics    3. Charitable uses, trusts, and f    4. Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations    5. Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Non-Profit Organizations Management    8. Nonprofit Organizations & Charities    9. Nonprofit organizations    10. Tax Law    11. Taxation    12. United States    13. Business & Economics / Nonprofit Organizations & Charities    14. Financial law    15. Non-profitmaking organizations    16. USA   

Subjects:  1. Budget    2. Civil Procedure    3. Congress    4. Congress.    5. Government - National    6. Governmental Budgeting    7. House    8. Law and legislation    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Political Science    11. Politics/International Relations    12. Rules and practice    13. United States    14. United States.    15. Central government policies    16. Political Science / Government / National    17. Political structure & processes    18. Public finance    19. USA   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Economic Theory    5. Economics - General    6. Economics - Theory    7. Statistics    8. Taxation    9. Taxation - General    10. Business & Economics / Economics / General   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. General    5. Taxation - Corporate    6. Taxation - General    7. Business & Economics / General    8. Corporate finance    9. Taxation   

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Use the time you saved doing taxes to read a map of Europe
Paraphrase from one of the book's highlighted sections:
The Flat Tax is rearranging the deck chairs on theTitanic
I supported Steve Forbes Tax reform 10 years ago when he was trying to become president.I now support H.R. 25 the FairTax.It is a grass roots effort to reform our nations tax code from an income based tax to a consumption based tax.
flat tax is a fraud
I am a CPA who has practiced for over 30 years.99.9999999% of the complexity of taxes has to do with determining just what is income and what is a deduction.Flat rates won't change that.Steve Forbes entire premise is a fraud.I have been listening with frustration to his inane ramblings for years, and I can't understand how he gets away with it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Economics - Theory    5. Flat-rate income tax    6. Income tax    7. Public Policy - Economic Policy    8. Taxation    9. Taxation - General    10. United States    11. North America