How to Pay Zero Taxes, 2018: Your Guide to Every Tax Break the IRS Allows
McGraw-Hill Education (Verlag)
978-1-260-11582-6 (ISBN)
For more than three decades, How to Pay Zero Taxes has been helping people like you make tax time less draining, on both your emotions and your finances. You can save more money than you ever imagined when you have the right information—and that’s exactly what tax expert Jeff Schnepper provides. This engagingly written guide makes even most complex information easy to understand, delivering valuable advice on everything from converting personal expenses into business deductions to avoiding (or surviving) an audit.
Fully updated for 2018, How to Pay Zero Taxes covers all the latest tax changes. You'll learn how to take advantage of IRS-sanctioned deductions, shelters, credits, exemptions, and more. Plus, you'll find hundreds of insider tips designed to lower your tax bill. Whether you're a tax professional or a home filer, this book will help you pay less to the IRS this year-and every year.
Focus on what matters most: tax saving, not tax preparation. How to Pay Zero Taxes provides everything you need to know about:
* New tax laws—including surcharges on earned and unearned income* Exemptions, credits, and exclusions * Special capital gains and dividends rules* Increased IRA and retirement plan limits* Job hunting and relocation expenses* Theft and casualty losses* Child care and elder care* Educational and Roth IRAs
Jeff A. Schnepper is the author of How to Pay Zero Taxes, a bestseller now in its seventeenth annual edition, as well as several other books on finance and taxation. He is the financial, tax, and legal advisor to the Transamerica sales force and runs a full-time accounting and legal practice in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Mr. Schnepper also writes a column for Microsofts online personal finance website, MoneyCentral, and is a tax strategist and advisor for TheTaxPeople.net, and the ORYAN Program.
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Chapter 1: Tax Insanity
Chapter 2: Is It Legal?
Chapter 3: How Our Tax System Works
Chapter 4: Exclusions--Tax-Free Money
A Alternatives to "Earned Income"
B Donative Items
C Investors
D Benefits for the Elderly
E Miscellaneous Individual Exclusions
F Schedule of Excludable Items
Chapter 5: Credits--Dollar-for-Dollar Tax Reductions
A Estimated Tax and Withholding Exemptions
B Credits
C Special Credits
Chapter 6: "Above the Line" Deductions
A Deductions for Adjusted Gross Income
Chapter 7: "Below the Line" Deductions
A The Importance of Filing Status
B Tax Planning with Itemized Deductions
C Schedules of Deductions
Chapter 8: Traditional Tax Shelters
A Deferral and Leverage
B How to Analyze a Tax Shelter
Chapter 9: Super Tax Shelters
A Family Shifts
B Running Your Own Business
Chapter 10: Investment Planning to Save Taxes
Chapter 11: Last-Minute Tax Planning
Chapter 12: The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001
A Individual Income Tax Rate Structure
B Phase-out of Restrictions on Personal Exemptions
C Phase-out of Itemized Deductions
A Increase and Expand the Child Tax Credit
B Extension and Expansion of Adoption Tax Benefits
C Child Care Credit
A Standard Deduction Marriage Penalty Relief
B Expansion of the 15 Percent Rate Bracket for Married Couples Filing Joint Returns
C Marriage Penalty Relief and Simplification Relating to the Earned Income Credit
A Modifications to Education IRAs
B Private Prepaid Tuition Programs: Exclusion from Gross Income of Education Distributions from Qualified Tuition Programs
C Exclusion for Employer-Provided Educational Assistance
D Modifications to Student Loan Interest Deduction
E Eliminate Tax on Awards Under the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program and the F. Edward Herbert Armed Forces Health Possessions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program
F Deduction for Qualified Higher Education Expenses
A Phase-out and Repeal of Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes; Increase in Gift Tax Unified Credit Effective Exemption
B Expand Estate Tax Rule for Conservation Easements
C Modify Generations-Skipping Transfer Tax Rules
D Availability of Installment Payment Relief
Chapter 13: The Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002
Chapter 14: The Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003
A Rate Reductions
B The Marriage Penalty
C The Alternative Minimum Tax
D Child Tax Credit
E Dividends/Capital Gains
F Deduct Your SUV--Election to Expense
Chapter 15: Income Averaging and Hurricane Tax Breaks
Chapter 16: 2006 Tax Reform
A The Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005
B The Pension Protection Act of 2006
C Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006
Chapter 17: Tax Reform, 2007-2008
A The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007
B The New Debt Relief Act
C The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008
D The Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Act of 2008
E The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
Chapter 18: 2009 Tax Changes
Chapter 19: More Tax Changes
A The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act of 2010
B The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
C Small Business Jobs Act of 2010
D The Tax Relief, Unemployment, Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010
E American Tax Relief Act of 2012
F Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014
G The ABLE Act
H More Changes
Chapter 20: How to Avoid/Survive and IRS Audit
Appendix A: Cost Recovery/Depreciation
Appendix B: Business Use of "Listed Property"
Appendix C: Auto Leases
Index
Chapter 6: "Above the Line" Deductions
A Deductions for Adjusted Gross Income
Erscheinungsdatum | 30.01.2018 |
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Verlagsort | OH |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 191 x 231 mm |
Gewicht | 1406 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse |
Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Steuern / Steuerrecht | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-260-11582-8 / 1260115828 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-260-11582-6 / 9781260115826 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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