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How to Beat the IRS
Keeping up with all the IRS rules and regulations can be a real hassle. The tax code keeps getting more and more complex every year, in spite of countless promises by politicians to "simplify" the system.
Insightful
I bought TaxCut software, then read this book, I end up with a tax professional to do my 2001 tax.I am glad I read this book though, I avoided making mistakes and I followed carefully to my tax attorney's advice.This book is informative and insightful.

Solid, up-to-date tax advice for 2002
Now available in a revised and updated eighth edition, What The IRS Doesn't Want You To Know: A CPA Reveals The Tricks Of The Trade is a compendium of solid, up-to-date tax advice for 2002. Chapters survey such topics as what the latest IRS targets are; ten ground rules one must never break to win with the IRS;the thirty-four greatest taxpayer misconceptions; commonly overlooked credits and deductions; what forms should never be filled out; new tax laws enabling an innocent spouse to get out of debt; how to plan IRA and pension plans; the latest taxpayer rights; and what IRS people are really like and how to work with them. What The IRS Doesn't Want You To Know is a highly practical book and strongly recommended reading for every taxpayer! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Income tax    6. Law and legislation    7. Personal Finance    8. Personal Finance - General    9. Personal Finance - Taxation    10. Popular works    11. Tax Accounting    12. Tax administration and procedure    13. Tax auditing    14. Taxation    15. Taxation - General    16. United States    17. Budgeting & financial management    18. Business & Economics / Personal Finance / General    19. USA   

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I'm not employed by a tax lawyer
This would probably be a great book for a law student, but not for a lay person. I consider myself to be fairly intelligent, but I had a bit of difficulty wading through this to find the little bit of info that I needed.I'm sure it's also a great book for someone with a tax background.

unable to review
unfortunately, at the time of writing, 9 August 2005, I still have not received the item ordered on 7 July 2005. Therefore, I am not able to give any views on the book.

International Taxation
Doernberg provides a helpful overview of the important topics most relevant in International Taxation. This summary will be a useful guide for students, practitioners and anyone else interested in the U.S. tax issuesrelevant in international business. While short by design, this bookcontains a surprising amount of information. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Corporations, Foreign    2. Foreign income    3. Income tax    4. International    5. Investments, Foreign    6. Law    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Military    10. Taxation    11. United States   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Financial    2. Accounting - General    3. Business & Economics    4. Business/Economics    5. Taxation - General   

Subjects:  1. Aeronautics    2. Aeronautics & Astronautics    3. Aviation - General    4. Civil Procedure    5. Law and legislation    6. Popular works    7. Reference    8. Technology    9. Transportation    10. United States    11. Energy & natural resources law    12. International law of transport & communications    13. Transportation / Aviation / General    14. USA   

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A fundraising book for the small nonprofit, or one that is not well organized!
This is a great book for the small nonprofit that does not know much about fundraising. If it were for a more established nonprofit, then it would not have referred to major gifts as those starting at $500. I'm used to major gifts starting at $10,000 and going up well into the 6 figures.
Clear and Simple Explanations of What Works
There are a tremendous number of non-profits around. There are also a tremendous number of funding organizations. Your job as the fundraising manager (whatever your exact job title may be) is to put your particular non-profit together with one or more funding organizations to raise the money you need.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Finance    5. Fund Raising And Grants (General)    6. Fund raising    7. Non-Profit Organizations Management    8. Nonprofit Organizations & Charities    9. Nonprofit organizations    10. Philanthropy & Charity    11. Small Business - Capital Generation    12. Taxation    13. United States   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Consolidation and merger of corporations    6. Corporate    7. Corporate Mergers And Acquisitions    8. International Finance    9. International business enterprises    10. Law and legislation    11. Taxation    12. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management    13. Finance & Accounting   

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A better text is available
As background for dissusion of the Beams "Advanced Accounting" text, 9th ed.: I took advanced accounting at one university last summer (which covered much of advanced accounting, but no accounting for not-for-profit organizations).Due to scheduling availability, I am taking advanced accounting at a different university this summer...this class WILL cover not-for-profit accounting issues, which is why I am taking it.We used the Hoyle, Schaefer, Doupnik "Advanced Accounting" 7th ed. text last year, and even though the concepts were difficult, the examples assisted greatly, and the text was clear, organized and without noticeable errors.
errors all over
This text shouldcorrect all the errors before it published.

solution for the excercises
it is a very good book actually, but i'm having some difficulties in solving the exercise, so i think this book need a complementary book or some kind of manual or solution. But if there is, I would like to beinformed about where i can get that kind of book. Thank U! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting    2. Accounting (General)    3. Accounting - General    4. Business & Economics    5. Business / Economics / Finance    6. Business/Economics    7. Taxation - General    8. Business & Economics / Taxation / General   

Subjects:  1. Careers - General    2. Construction contracts    3. Construction industry    4. General    5. Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Taxation    9. United States    10. Business & Economics / Careers   

Reviews (4)

Excellent book for small business deductions!
This book is absolutely terrific (as are most NOLO books).the author details what is deductable for the different forms of businesses, what records are required, how to record those records and specifics for all the major topics of deductable expenses.All in all if you walked in to see an accountant day one of starting out your business he should just hand you this book have you read and then answer any questions that you need further clarification on.This is a great reference if you are unsure how a specific deduction works and a very quick and easy read.This should be on every business owners shelf!

J Vasquez
This book is amazing.It's hard to set it down.Well organized with clear explanations and examples.A must for new business owners.It will help you steer away from IRS audits.The capital expense section will show you how to deduct the cost of this book.

Explaining the Rules, Both Written and Understood
The income tax laws of the United States clearly allow you do deduct business expenses. But from this basic rule has come an incredibly complex set of subsidiary rules that further define what are legitimate deductions and what are not allowed.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Consumer Finance    5. Law and legislation    6. Personal Finance - General    7. Popular works    8. Small Business - General    9. Small Business Finance    10. Small business    11. Tax deductions    12. Taxation    13. Taxation - General    14. United States   

Reviews (4)

Excellent information on Trust and IRAs
Ed does a great job on giving you detailed information of how to stretch your IRA assets for the next generation.He also does a great job of including information on how to write your trust so that you can control your assets beyond the grave. This is mainly important for clients who have lots of assets in their IRAs or for people who just pass away before they use their IRA assets.Since you don't know when you are going to pass away, I think it is important to get your trust and your IRA beneficiaries set up as soon as possible.
Little added
Ed Slott repeated alot of what was included in "The Retirement Savings Time Bomb...", so I was not as impressed with this book.You can get 98% of what to do in the "Time Bomb".But if you really want to save all your money to your kids and their kids, it should help you.

Parlay Your IRA into a family fortune
Very good information.Is vital information that would be very useful to anyone with a large IRA and a significant number of beneficiaries.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Consumer Finance    3. Estate planning    4. Individual retirement accounts    5. Personal Finance    6. Personal Finance - IRA    7. Personal Finance - Retirement Planning    8. Retirement income    9. Tax planning    10. United States    11. Business & Economics / Personal Finance / General   

Reviews (5)

good book, but needs further improvement
It is very clear and accurate in explaining the rules. It is not vey clear in certain chapters like Alternative Minimum Tax, or quantifying, even approximately, who can pass the trading activity test. Great Book for Learning About the Taxation of Investments
Ideal for those new to investment portfolio management
Kaye Thomas' Capital Gains, Minimal Taxes: The Essential Guide For Investors And Traders is a "plain language" guide to stocks, mutual funds, options, and tax strategies for maximizing returns and minimizing tax liabilities. Complete, authoritative, practical, "user friendly", this guide is ideal for those new to investment portfolio management and will prove both practical and invaluable in creating a personal financial investment plan with allied strategies. Indeed, Capital Gains, Minimal Taxes has much of value to offer even experienced investors with respect to tax rules for short sales, stock options, and "straddles". Highly recommended reading for sensible small investor strategic financial and investment planning. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Investments & Securities - General    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Personal Finance    5. Personal Finance - Taxation    6. Taxation    7. Taxation - General   

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

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Painful on the Surface, but Needed and Well Done
Taxes? Ouch! It's rather like going to the dentist. A necessary evil. Most of us small business owners love the profits, but cringe at the taxes. Uncle Sam can be intimidating and a book like this can help overcome the fears, while explaining the options. It answers most of the FAQ's we face and does so in a thorough and easy to understand manner. I will probably refer to it many times as various tax issues arise.

You'll be happy you bought it!
This is an exceptionally well-written and practical book on small business taxation and a very good starting point for anyone who is interested in learning how to keep good business records.

Best Small Business & Tax Book I Ever Read
I LOVE THIS BOOK.I am recommending it to ALL my clients.It is, truly, the most readable and enjoyable business/tax book I have ever read.May it help small business owners everywhere.It's full of bite size practical advice that you can put into practice to keep improving your business.All the bites together make up a feast for the entrepreneur who needs to get it done right with no time to do it.I am an accountant and tax professional who manages my own business and advises entrepreneurs and nonprofits.This book is my guide to running my own business and gives me help in my work of helping my clients.Thank you, Tax Mama!Your warmth, humor and in the trenches wisdom comes through on every page.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Law and legislation    5. Planning    6. Small Business - General    7. Small Business Management    8. Small Business/Entrepreneurship    9. Small business    10. Taxation    11. Taxation - General    12. United States    13. Business & Economics / Small Business    14. Small businesses & self-employed   

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Great for entertainment value...
...but that's all it is.The book makes a lot of amusing arguments as to why you don't need to pay tax and you may find it funny if you are a tax attorney (as I am), accountant, enrolled agent or any other kind of tax practitioner.Considering Mr. Schiff is in prison for tax evasion now, I'd consider this book to be completely bogus.A good laugh, yes; good advice, definitely not.

To be read with a grain of salt
While I agree that Schiff makes some interesting points in his claims such as paying the income tax is voluntary, that 'income' does not include wages, that it is okay to file a zero 1040 return, etc., following such advice will be fine until the IRS comes knocking at your door.
The Truth Can be Costly
Irwin Schiff is correct and amazon is brave for still having a link to this book still up. This book is banned material in all forums and this includes amazons selling of it. read the court order banning the book at www.paynoincometax.com . Schiff is under is prosecution (persecution is more like it) by the Feds because they of course want to keep us all slaves. And we are slaves no matter how you want to justify it. (paying a "fair share" is a socialist term) Serfs in feudal England were considered slaves and they got to take home more than we do now. The Federal Government operates outside the Law and the courts are clearly simply ignoring the facts. Go to his site and read the motions and decisions rendered so far and see for your self how the court behaves. There is of course one reviewer here who is clearly a Federal Agent. Do note that according to the Patriot Act, once you purchase this book, the government will know about it and you will be on thier hit list. So if you can get it through other means. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Income Taxes    3. Politics/International Relations    4. Taxation - General   

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One for your Personal Library
Here is a book you can refer to forever.Good stuff to know.
Become an Informed Driver
This book was very knowledgeable on the ways cops obtain your speed as well as the faults in the types of ways they obtain it. Along with using correct and "street" terminology, it talks about the different types of radar used to pick up your speed and how they obtain your speed by pacing you. There are MANY faults and this book just confirms my prior thoughts that tickets are purely a money making scam not only for the police but for the insurance agencies as well. If nothing else buy it to be prepared when you do get pulled over as it gives you good tips on how to get away from a ticket at this early stage to. 4 out of 5 only because it does not list laws from every state just some laws from some states.

An Educated Guide To Speeding Tickets-How To Beat Avoid Them
It was helpfull but alot of the information is not good for the Washington state courts. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Law    3. Law / Practical Guides    4. Popular works    5. Reference    6. Speed limits    7. Taxation    8. United States    9. Automotive    10. Court    11. Law / General    12. Practical Guides    13. Traffic Violations   

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Jeff is my FAVORITE tax planner!
I started getting and reading his books in 2003 (see my Listmania), and have begun visiting his MSN message boards and article indexes.I now have a brand new tax issue, and am looking to the 2006 and 2007 books for guidance in how to handle/shelter a coming $10k raise.
You have to be serious about it.
I've been reading this author's columns on the web for some time.You can not read this book and look at it as a "self-help" tool.It's not that at all.You must be at least semi-business minded to execute these types of tactics and strategy or you will fall on your face.For me, a well read business person (at least I think so) this book can be summarized like this:It's a Cliffs Notes version of the Tax Code, written for the savvy tax payer.He takes the aspects of the tax code that pertain to a lot of people and breaks it down.There are times when a law degree would be helpful to read this.But, if you read it carefully, you'll do better than you had, were you not to read it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Consumer Finance    4. Personal Finance    5. Personal Finance - General    6. Personal Finance - Taxation    7. Tax planning    8. Taxation    9. United States    10. Business & Economics / Taxation / General   

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Must have for freelance designers!
In starting out and gathering information it's hard to determine what books will be helpful. This is great. It is filled with tear out forms you can make copies of and use over and over. Great information. And the CD-ROM includes all the forms in pdf format, as well as Pagemaker and Quark XPress so that you can make changes to fonts and style, logo additions, and more, to suit your own home business.Files are compatible with Mac and IBMC platform, which is great for me being a designer working mostly on an IBM computer. Excellent book!

It's a $29.95 Lawyer!!
Our small graphic design firm had been relying on the legal forms and contracts from this book for about one year. Finally, we decided that perhaps we ought to visit with a lawyer to make sure we were doing it right...$560.00 later for an initial consultation, we realized that this $29.95 book was the best business investment we'd ever made! The lawyer confirmed that the contracts that we had been using were airtight and were great (he had a few other pointers...but, none worth $560.00). Buy it, you won't be sorry.
This book has EVERYTHING you need ... and then some.When you think you're not going to need one of the forms in this book, you later realize that YOU DO! As a freelance artist, using these forms made me feel as though clients noticed that they were dealing with a real professional.Absolutely a great investment. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Artists    4. Artists' contracts    5. Forms    6. Graphic Arts - General    7. Graphic arts    8. Legal status, laws, etc    9. Legal status, laws, etc.    10. Reference    11. Taxation    12. United States   

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Truly a good primer
This is the only book I found that actually explained everything in its table of contents in a way that I could understand.This is an excellent book for a total beginner just trying to understand the basic issues of thin capitalization rules, deductions vs. exemptions vs. credits, double taxation, tax sparing, tax havens, etcetera. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. General    4. International    5. International - Taxation    6. International business enterpr    7. International business enterprises    8. Law and legislation    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Taxation    11. Business & Economics / Public Finance    12. International economic & trade law    13. International economics    14. Taxation law   

Subjects:  1. Aliens    2. Corporations, Foreign    3. Foreign income    4. Income tax    5. International    6. Law    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Taxation    10. United States   

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everything is in there, but take it with a grain of salt.
If I had to suggest the purchase of this book I would recommend it. There is almost everything in the book about US antitrust. But some warnings are necessary. It's not for students. It's not for lawyers. Maybe scholars and judges can be interested. The author highlights what is not coherent in the body of untistrust legislation. He provides some solution but that solution turns out to be simple: stay put. On that we can debate, but for sure it's a useful check in the bugs of the system. Given the approach I would have given 5 stars if the author had provided some hints or quantitative analysis to the reader on the effects of some of the Supreme Court decisions on lower Courts and on the current management of antitrust law. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Antitrust    2. Antitrust law    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. United States    6. Competition law    7. Law / Antitrust    8. USA