Taxation Law Books

I am in week 3 of my Securities Regulation class, and I am frustrated by the amount of error in this book.
For example, on page 508, the book refers back to a case like this:
discussed at length in the Haupt case, supra at page __.
Page__. What is that? Did the editor not know they were supposed to fill in that blank with the correct page number?
Page 502, excess words: The power to control, even if exercised, may constitute a person a controlling person.
The words "a person" are not needed.
When working through some of the problems, the questions refered back to the wrong problems.
Spelling errors, incorrect words, missing words, excess words....this book is annoying to read because of all of the errors. When writing on a complicated subject, it is imperative that the book be easy to read.
Fire the proofreaders.
If any professors read this---please, please, please use another book.
This review is based on the 10th edition.Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (University Casebook)

Authored by a real expert in the field, Securities Regulation is the best casebook on the market and would be the first choice for a law school securities class.

This casebook by Professors Coffee and Seligman is the gold standard for the teaching of federal securities law. It is the successor to the casebook originally by Richard Jennings and Harold Marsh, both now deceased, which was used to teach the subject to the majority of securities lawyers now in practice. It includes a careful selection of materials revealing the progression of ideas in the field in most of the subjects of importance to students receiving an introduction to the law in this area. The cases are well selected, and serve as a compendium of the meat of the matter in all the important cases in the field that are cited in briefs filed in all types of litigation in this area and which guide the transactional lawyers through the thickets. I used this text in my original law school coursework, and found it in use later as I pursued an LL.M. degree in the area at NYU. As the field has undergone some major upheaval due to the scandals involving Enron, Global Crossing and the like, it is appropriate that Coffee and Seligman be listed as sole authors on the cover, although one can still see some of the flavor of the original work by Jennings and Marsh. It is a classic.

This is a useless read. Provided no additional information to me. Just a waste of money - though not much

If you are looking for a reference to make sure you have not missed a deduction, this is the book for you. It was a life saver for me and brought my Adjusted Gross Income number to a level that I could not have achieved otherwise.

This is a good complimentary reference to other books. It is basicly a basic tax dictionary. I would not recommend this book as the single source to use to determine tax deductions. However, I do recommend it as a ready companion to other tax deduction books, as it defines most of the tax terms that one is likely to encounter.

Took a while for the shipping but the book was in good shape came with all cd's. Overall happy with service

This is the most boring book I have had the displeasure of trying to read I understand that tax law is not to most fun thing in the world but I think this book could have been written better. If you need to find a bed-time story for your child then I would consider buying this book it will put you to sleep in less than a minute.

The author of this book really had the student reader in mind. He includes every aspect of business and financing in the text. He is broad but simple at the same time. I would recommend this book to anyone that is beginning to get into the business world of learning!

A very useful guide to the ones who want to either take advantage of the opportunities some countries offer and to know more about it. Beautifully and exhaustively written, with lots of examples, it is an essential guide. Even to the ones who, not living in the United States or in a common-law country, want to save money and optimize their businesses.

The book is very tedious to read and is extremely poorly arranged. The CD is useless. The author demonstrates a great knowledge of what he is writing, but has not presented it in an engaging and coherent form. The most important concepts are mixed and buried throughout the book and must be reconstructed by the reader. The reader does develop a feel for how complex international tax avoidance is and an understanding how excellent advice could cost hundreds of dollars an hour. The summary of it is, there are some legitimate opportunities for legitimate companies conducting legitimate businesses. However, most schemes while skirting the letter of the law violate the spirit of the law and are therefor, illegal. The temptation arises with foreign governments in search of hard currency, willing to hide activities from the IRS. However, international agreements are slowly removing these veils.

I just finished reading a first edition hardcover of this book, which is believed to be responsible for popularizing the phrase "male bonding" which is widely in use to this day. A book with that sort of lasting influence could hardly be "obsolete," as another reader suggested.

Actually, some of Tiger's suggestions seem fresh and relevant, especially in light of recent trends that take another look at long buried, "dangerous" ideas like "Human Universals." (Notably referenced in Steven Pinker's excellent The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature)

Current thinking on chimpanzee social structure is irrelevant to the ideas presented in this book.

The key idea is here is that men seem to gain some sort of sense of well-being from male-male bonding and that male bonding seems to center around aggression (which Tiger defines broadly, not only in terms of violence but of seeking mastery of something--where violence is but one possible outcome of aggression). That aggression can be real or simulated. So this idea, in an age where cooperative online gaming (a new but highly male interest), ESPN, UFC and the movie 300 are all such popular points of reference for young , straight men, it actually seems that Tiger was actually more correct than he wished to be. Male bonding, and aggression, ARE part of human nature, and they can't necessarily be suppressed or rendered impotent despite the best intentions of "positivists."

He was correct that male bonding needs to be accommodated in our plans for our species, and I would add, in a productive and positive way. Because young men will seek out manly identity and bonding from those who offer it--be they Boy Scouts or gangs. Old school feminists can continue to put their hands over their ears and wish human nature away, but it ain't going anywhere. Not completely.

Highly recommended.

I have re-read my 1984 edition of 'Men in Groups' and find it strange that this book has been published again in 2004 considering its errors and antiquated tone. I cannot imagine how the new introduction to the 2004 edition can get round these problems - for the author to take into consideration the new knowledge about primates and human evolution and the actual changes in women's 'nature' in recent decades automatically renders the book obsolete.

Certainly, male bonding is a fact of human societies that needed to be recognized but we are now well past the false glorification of 'man-the-hunter' which pervades this book.

Tiger says his intention was that of abetting the feminist position by illustrating the depth and pervasiveness of the male conspiracy against women so it is somewhat amusing to find in his more recent wrtings that he is not as thrilled by the changes women have accomplished as we would expect.

The author could be forgiven in 1969 for ignorance regarding primates and human evolution. This ignorance led to his attempts to find the roots of human male bonding in hunting as he supposed that our ancestors were matrilocal, as most mammals are. Now we know our direct connection to chimpanzees we can see that they are patrilocal male kin groups with the females transfering to breed. Females are the outsiders - entering one group of male kin from another group of male kin that are their competitors and enemies. This is how it is, or has been, for human societies too. The odds were stacked in favor of male bonding and male self-interest and against that of females well before humans came along.

Tiger recognizes (at least he did in 1969) how male homosociality is detrimental to females and to humankind in general but he also feels compelled to sing its praises as if it has some magical quality beyond self-interest. He has the problem of wanting to find ways to feed and sustain the primitive and needy male homosociality while changing the outcome to something more civilized than we actually have. It is lke trying to cure an illness but refusing to accept the cause. There is a lot of male narcissism here along with a condescending attitude towards women that is hard to believe was so natural for men only 38 years ago.

If you must read this book then at least read some actual field studies of primates to see how amusingly inaccurate Tiger's beliefs about baboons and other primates turned out to be. Let yourself also find out about, for example, the baboon males who, trying to enter a group, ingratiate themselves with a female, babysitting her offspring and so becoming accepted in the group. And possibly at some time the female may take this male's genes into the future for him. Then, perhaps, think about the human males who are not 'men's men' and the alternative reproductive strategies of which human males are capable.

Yes, male-bondng for aggression and violence leading to increased reproductive success is the loudest story in human history but it is not the only one. And if we are going to use nature and biology to support a theory then it cannot be false biology. Once the 'scientific' foundation of a theory is shown to be incorrect it would obviously be better to start again - especially when the accompanying language is of the condescending kind that would be more readily dropped if it had been applied to, say, homosexuals or blacks.

Basically, so much of this book has turned out to be either blinkered or simply wrong that it is necessarily obsolete.

I bought this book in conjunctioin with a business planning course taught by the author. I'm usually not a fan of most law books, but this book presents valuable content in a manner accessible to both law and business students.

This book is targeted towards Lawyers who are doing valuation for tax purposes (have a court case where valuation is disputed). This book is full of references court cases which is not what I expect from a Valuation book. The "and Taxes" should have given it away but I figured it had to do something how valuation changes due to taxes. I would not buy this book if you actually need to do valuation. No examples whatsoever.

Buy it if you are a lawyer working on a Valuation case. Otherwise this book not for you.

Excellent COndition; I would guess brand new, and for about 75% of the cost at my school's bookstore.

Michael Greenfield makes an admirable attempt build to expose the reading public to a new type prose that utilizes many different conflicts and characters while also detailing much technical information regarding the law. However, Greenfield apparently has bit off more than he can chew since his novel simply does not tie his many expository strands together in a satisfying ending.
The reader is exposed to hundreds of characters and businesses that have all been involved in separate disputes regarding their separate consumer transactions, but these individual consumer never unite for love or conversation or play or any other type of meaningful exchange. Greenfield seems to view the world as one where people are atomized and isolated. He shows how they communicate through complex and impersonal legal and commercial systems. The reader is left waiting to see if any particular persons are able to use the human spirit in order to break out of this Foucault-esque prison of a society and interact live together in a deeper way.
However, Greenfield offers now such hope. The novel's ending leaves the characters where Greenfield found them: alone and caught in the tangle of a complex, bureaucratic world. While Greenfield may one day fully articulate the themes he draws on in "Consumer Transactions", he right now offers no more than a cynical, mechanical worldview that leaves both his readers and characters both unfulfilled.

Very useful and convenient reference guide for restructuring bankers / distressed debt investors. Probably too generic for experienced bankruptcy attorneys. The text and examples are efficiently presented and the author does a superb job of distilling the bankruptcy code into an easy-to-read format. The chapter on valuation is nothing more than the common stuff you read in any corporate finance book. A case study and a more extensive discussion on bankruptcy term sheets and negotiation tactics would have made this book more praiseworthy.

Although helpful and well written, the book appears more appropriate for executives or managers of operating companies that may be faced with bankruptcy prospects. A good overview of how the process unfolds, players, objectives, legal issues, and procedures is provided. Managers at a financially distressed operation typically carry a different toolbox of experience and skills, and therefore, this book would be well worth the introduction to the topic.

However, for investors this book is somewhat superficial and lacks the roll-up-your-sleeves education neccessary for investing. In most cases, senior management is sacked because creditors understandably have little confidence in those who may have mismanaged or were responsible for the business's failure in the first place. Thus, the audience that I presumed above may not be appropriate nor the majority of individuals who surface after a Plan.

For investors or external parties, I urge you to consider:
"Distressed Debt Analysis: Strategies for Speculative Investors" by Stephen G. Moyer. It is more expensive, but its a much better book on this topic. Moyer is a stronger writer and seems to be more experienced in the matter than G. Newton. Both books do not include the 2005 Bankruptcy Code reforms, so you may wish to brush up on that separately.

For my State & Local Taxation Class it was only helpful for the first 3 weeks as a supplement to all the constitutional law cases. And then we didn't even cover the stuff in the 2nd half of the book. So while it was a nice, general, overview and I liked the size (small/easy to handle), and it was easy to read; For my purposes, I wish it were more detailed, like an Emmanuels Outline.

This book is a must-have for any nontax student who has to take a tax class.

I have no trouble determining what kind of climate or what size town I would like to retire to - this book offers the kind of information that REALLY helps me make decisions about relocation for retirement - the tax consequences of relocation and specific, state-by-state information about the tax burdens placed on retirees (or anyone else who is thinking about relocation)! The book includes information about the tax structures of several cities within each state so you can get great info on local taxes, too. The tax info is broken down into each kind of tax; income tax, property tax, sales tax, auto taxes, & other special taxes. States & cities are ranked according to tax burdens for several different income levels. In other books I've read that rank cities, the rankings are pretty subjective - I don't need or want a city that's ranked higher because it has an opera house or a sports stadium! The rankings in this book are based on taxes - plain & simple! State & Local taxes work out to be around 40% of the total taxes paid by each of us, so savings on state and local taxes can make a big difference in comfort and quality of life. Recent studies have shown that states with lower taxes actually provide better services, in other words; schools, parks, roads and other state funded amenities are as good or better in low-tax states. Ever wonder why all the movie stars buy ranches in Wyoming? This book explains it!!!! I hope the authors will update this book every few years! It's a perfect resource!

There are numerous retirement magazines which do better job. This book provides a very basic look at information for planners of the general location for a retirement. It assumes only couples (this may dramatically change if one of marital partners dies) and does not explicitely describe anywhere in the publication the exact meaning of the headings in the aptly worked out tables of taxation accordingly to income level for typical 150 cities,of real estate property taxation, and assumed automobile ownership. It also assumes average statistical consumer goods expenditures of a typical shopping profile for sales tax computing.

It does not clearly state whether posted tabulated taxes are prorated for a year, or for a month. My check up of the state taxes calculated for the states I am familiar with, or lived in, came with much bigger amounts, sometimes of an order of magnitude. The authors possibly include very large medical expenses typical for seniors, which are deducatble in all states.
The authors totally omitted to rate cost of auto insurance which varies greatly, and is in some "inexpensive" states very high, while in some expensive places average to modest.

The retirement advisory publications are of such poor quality that when I retire I plan to write my own book for those who are neither proletarians, nor really wealthy people, non of those either needing or being able to relocate. Other "advisory" publication are concerned about golf courses and bingo clubs assuming that people past age 65 turn into morons drooling obove pictures of their great offsprings and have no other interest.