Book Description

CCH's U.S. Master Tax Guide - Hardbound Edition provides helpful and practical guidance on today's federal tax law. This 102nd Edition reflects all pertinent federal taxation changes that affect 2018 returns and provides fast and reliable answers to tax questions affecting individuals and business income tax. The U.S. Master Tax Guide contains timely and precise explanation of federal income taxes for individuals, partnerships, corporations, estates and trusts, as well as new rules established by key court decisions and the IRS. Significant new tax developments are conveniently highlighted and concisely explained for quick reference and understanding. The guide's explanations are meticulously researched and footnoted to provide tax practitioners with the most accurate and legally sound guidance to help them understand, apply and comply with today's complex federal tax laws. This guide is built for speed with numerous time-saving features, including a tax calendar, lists of average itemized deductions, selected depreciation tables, rate tables, checklists of income, deduction and medical expense items, and more. These features help users quickly and easily determine how particular tax items and situations should be treated and answer client questions. U.S. Master Tax Guide comes complete with the popular Quick Tax Facts card that can be detached for at-a-glance reference to key tax figures and other often referenced amounts used in preparing 2019 income tax returns, and a special bonus CPE course supplement entitled Top Federal Tax Issues for 2019, which focuses in on the most significant and thorniest new tax developments affecting practitioners for the year. The Top Federal Tax Issues Course allows professionals to earn CPE credit while keeping up-to-date on the most important tax issues (grading fee additional).