Estate-tax Books

This book is unbelievably helpful. We are about to purchase our new house and for those homeowners out there, I have come to believe that this is really not an easy process.

This book has read my mind. I'm always looking to see if any of my expenses will actually help me in the end. Yes, to see if it's tax deductible. My husband knows me by now and supports me in my crazy thinking that everything is tax deductible.

I'm sharing this book with the rest of my family and friends but need to buy the book on their own :-). This book could not have come in a much better time.

Thank you Mr. Tax!

I was looking for a digital product that I could read on the train to work and this was exactly what I was looking for. This ebook is very informative and helpful. I am in the process of my first flip and I have referred to it many times for all the tips and helpful information.

This presents a thorough but brief review of the social and economic factors involved in this deplorable period of history, with details from the records of one of the schooners involved.

This loose-leaf treatise compiled by Kluwers contains separate chapters for each country. Each country chapter follows the same format, making comparisons easy. This is a wealth of very difficult to obtain information.

This is an extremely well-written and informative book. In "Guide to Buying or Selling a Business," Hansen elevates potentially dry subject matter nearly to the level of entertainment, while presenting very useful and logical step-by-step procedures on how this complex field can be mastered. I found it to be not only invaluable in charting my way through this tough business, but it was a surprisingly enjoyable read.

Book was just what I needed to help my mom sort though everything when my dad died. Highly recommended.

As a financial writer and editor I read dozens of tax deduction books each year. This book is by far the best book avaiable for information in one place on deductions and tax breaks.Whether your an accountant or just someone that does their own taxes this book will give you pleanty of ideas to save money for your clients or yourself.

Many people of moderate wealth can learn tax planning from this book in a simple and accessible way, from anecdotes combined with excellent brief tax explanations. Younger (30 to 40) folks can benefit the most because they have more financial years to gain from good decisions made today.

As a manager of separate individual stock market accounts, I have been interested in financial planning, but skeptical. This book really reaches me because it offers simple real life examples where I see the point and recognize client situations which can benefit from the solutions.

Dunn uses high profile individuals for many of his cases, drawing from news reports and other sources. When you hear about very good and woefully bad decisions made by folks such as Sam Walton, Warren Buffet, Jackie Kennedy and many others, the magnitude of savings from good decisions really comes home. You will see good reasons to get some competent help.

"Land and Taxation" contains contributions from five different economists, each of whom put forth persuasive arguments for switching to a land-based tax system -- a system in which the rental value of land and natural resources ("rent" for short) is the sole source of public revenue. Doing so, they argue, would "restore full employment, banish poverty and sustain economic activity."

In the prologue, Fred Harrison defines economic rent as "the value of land and natural resources after deducting the rewards that must legitimately accrue to those who invest labor and capital in and on the land (buildings, fences, drainage, and so on)." He then points out that the idea of shifting taxes entirely off labor and capital and onto land values goes back hundreds of years, but did not become widely known and understood until the publication of Henry George's masterwork, "Progress and Poverty" (1879). George argued that, because land is in fixed supply, landholders are able to grow rich without working simply by levying tolls on the fruits of other people's labor -- not in exchange for services rendered -- but in exchange for mere access to the earth on which all humans must live, yet which none produced.

More specifically, since the growth and progress of society tend to drive up land values, and since an increase in land values tends to come at the expense of wages (the return to labor) and interest (the return to capital), the paradox of increasing poverty amid advancing wealth is the direct result of allowing publicly created land values to be privately pocketed by a landed few at the expense of the productive many. To eliminate this paradox, and to uphold the true right of property (property in oneself and the fruit of one's labor), George proposed making land rent the sole source of public revenue -- a policy that was later dubbed the "Single Tax."

In "Land and Taxation," the authors explain that the Single Tax is just as relevant and just as needed today as it was 120 years ago, and do an excellent job refuting the various myths propagated by neo-classical economists concerning the nature and role of economic rent -- including the myth that the concept of economic rent applies, not just to land, but to any factor of production that is in scarce supply.

I was impressed with the complete coverage of the new IRS regulations packed into this book. It could easily be used as a complete retirement preparation handbook or plan re-evaluation guide. It is filled with effective estate planning strategy that is direct and easy to follow. The 25 page workbook at the end of the book answers a lot of questions you may have about your plan. It will pin-down and solve problems in any advanced plan. If you have a desire to know what your estate plan is really achieving, get this book!