Taxation Law Books

The WAY your income is stolen from you is not the main issue. It is the fact that it's stolen at all.

This country was not founded on the principle of "pay up or you're going to jail".

But that is what taxes are.

If you think they are inevitable and that it's impossible to have society without them, you have a LOT of reading to do.

You could start with "Your Money or Your Life", by Sheldon Richman. From there, amazon should direct you to other titles of interest with their helpful book suggestions.

You could also check out Amazon Top-100 reviewer John "Scott" Ryan. He has some reading lists that can point you in a very good direction.

I disagree with this book. As a former Washington DC bureaucrat, I happen to know there are two sides to every story, depending on who you ask. This book only presents one side.

One wonders why it took years of punitive taxes for policy wonks to arrive at this brilliant masterpiece. But as they say, better late than never. This little book provides an overview of the rationale behind the flat tax idea. It is the best solution I have seen to the monstrosity better know as the tax code. The flat tax is a credible and workable means for delivering the taxpayer from the current corrupt and complex tax laws. I recommend this book to every taxpayers that is tired of sacrificing more and more of their own hard-earned money to Uncle Sam and want to see sensibility and fairness restored to the system of taxation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt originally founded the Internal Revenue Service on a temporary basis, simply to collect taxes during World War II. Unfortunately, over the past 40 years, the IRS has crept into the daily lives of all Americans, and has adopted the system of "guilty until proven innocent." This book, like so many others, documents with extreme accuracy the horrors inflicted onto innocent Americans by the absolute tyranny of the IRS. More than that, however, The IRS v. the People offers a simple solution to the status quo: a flat tax and/or a national sales tax. It seems simple enough, however there are too many in Congress who refuse to let such a fair and balanced tax system take over the IRS. Many feel the abuse of the current income tax is well justified and gives it to the wealthy and successful of this country. What they fail to recognize is that the income tax hurts all Americans. A flat tax would be fair and balanced, with a fixed percentage for all income to be taxed (17%). A national sales tax would offer the same relief. A national sales tax would silence the left who claim it would greatly favor the wealthy because those who buy yachts, boats, antiques, luxury cars, and townhomes in the Riviera are the wealthy! Either way you like at it, from the left or the right, a new tax system is needed to truly reflect the principles on which this great nation was established upon: liberty and equality.

I am taking my first college business law class (I also took it in high school). I expected a college level course and text to be more advanced, but I have to agree that this text is a bit confusing. If the tests were based on the text alone, I do not think I would do well on them. Thankfully, my notes from lecture and use of the study guide are saving me. I'm used to reading once, retaining the information and focusing more on the additional information provided in the lectures. I cannot do that with this text. I read the chapters two or three times and still feel confused. I have a 3.9 GPA and I hope this class (or should I say textbook) doesn't ruin it for me.

This edition is one of the better editions to come out. My professor didn't use the book in class, in fact he gave it bad reviews. We were advised to have the book to look up topics in more detail. We were also advised to study the chapter review questions, as they were used as test questions.

As the first reviewer said, the book does take the long way around subjects and tends to leave you confused when you actually try to read it.

As for the other reviewer, Spiral, I'm sorry you paid for a college education that didn't teach you how to spell.

utalizes is spelled utilizes and virtualy should be virtually

I found the book to be confusing in most cases. It would seem as though it would make runaround in descriptions. It would try to explain things in to much detail, thereby confusing the hell out of you.

An excelent source of information on Business Law. I had this book for my first college course in Business law and without it I might have failed. The book utalizes real cases and situations to explain virtualy every topic. The text is presented in a very clear and concise manner and applies to Business Law as practiced in America today. I personally have even used the information in this book to argue a case of my own in small claims and won. Im sure the other reviewer of this book just didn't take the time to study and learn the information. Rely on experience, not ramblings, buy this book!

I am currently taking Securities Law and we are using this book. It is highly dense, and the authors are poor writers. They clearly know the material and understand the distinctions, but I am often frustrated that they simply do not make their points more clearly. My advice is simple: if you are required to use this text, get it, but also use the Examples & Explanations book by Alan R. Palmiter because the prose is much easier to understand. I cannot speak for the other study aids, but they may work too. The key is getting one to complement this book. I think the E & E is a good choice because securities law is easier to learn by tackling problems and the E & E book has problems and answers (the casebook has problems too, but no answers -- you get those from the prof). Good luck!

i find this casebook to be very disorganized, unclear, and repetitive. there has to be a better sec reg casebook out there somewhere.

Okay, so this isn't pleasure reading...And I only bought it because it was assigned.
Still, I'm working in the securities area this summer and I don't know what I'd do without it. Hornbooks are great and I highly recommend them. But sometimes they don't really delve into the fine points of the law. This book is all about the fine points. I'll admit it's dense, but securities law isn't the simplest of topics. The other textbooks I've seen don't have as many cases and they seem to gloss over important topics like materiality which isn't that terrible until you need to know whether a particular activity is material.

Does the book cover a lot of ground? Yes. Is it a challenging read? Yes. Is there a better Sec. Reg. text out there? I haven't seen one.

This is a very unclear book with horrible, dense prose. The authors seem to have an impressive grasp of securities law, and fill the notes with many meaningful substantive explications of various technical points, but they are basically just awful writers, which makes this text a serious chore to read. Of course, no one is going to buy it unless it is assigned in a law school class, so its lack of clarity unfortunately won't really induce "customers" to buy a different securities text, but it is worth noting that you will probably need to go ahead and buy a very good hornbook right from the start. In your class, I'd suggest you read this text as little as possible: it will make your head hurt, and it's far too dense to teach you securities regulation effectively.

This is a picture friendly small handbook that puts a happy face ont taxes. Its a small history book that feels like a TAXES FOR DUMMY book. Its a little too happy really for a subject that is not the most upbeat.

This book was the right price and the right pace for a young person begining his or her life on their own. The Wall Street guide is comprehensive covering a quick history of taxes and then expounding upon the present state of US tax codes and the IRS. This book won't help you fill out your taxes nor contain the most up todate codes but may help make the frustration and confusion associated with filing much lest daunting and more bearable

Tax laws have changed dramatically since 1995. A lot of the information in this book is irrelevant now. Does not include infomation on newer tax credits.

WSJ must introduce a new and updated edition.

First, this is NOT a tax manual. This small and colorful book is designed as a general introduction to the process and vocabulary of the various taxes we all pay under varying conditions of income and investment. It is not a current guide to assist you in tax planning.

It gives you a basic introduction to the kinds of taxes we pay at the federal and local levels, the IRS, "paying as you earn", the annual (federal) return (with a nice general overview of the general applicable forms), audits (shiver!), and a little overview of tax planning. But, again, this guide's purpose is to provide a general overview and to provide you with basic concepts and vocabulary. Think of this as a good introduction to the topic rather than a practical preparation guide and you will understand what this book is trying to do.

It has lots of color and every page also uses helpful illustrations of the forms and processes involved in the tax process. Great for young people trying to learn what they are facing as the goverment(s) remove large chunks of their income to keep us in whatever it is we think we have from the government(s).

Poetry is an art form that succeeds only if the reader can share with the poet a vision communicated by the poem. How this work won a pulitzer prize escapes me. The only way for an "outsider" the read this book is with an interpreter and a dictionary so the obscure, at least from my point of view, references can be appreciated. As a reader I get no sense of the images the writer wants to conjure and the poems fail to take me anywhere but to the cliff of reason where I am just left without a bridge for crossing. I do not wonder I was able to purchase this book for such a low price.

Here's a Muldoon pastiche:

Basement

Then to spy
in an unused cellar spot

Under a bulb fixture
long since jury-rigged
in deal cast-off

And between oil tank
and salt-scalloped stone wall

--Between a ruck
and a carapace--

A tiny skeleton--mouse.

My instinct:
to trip-tipsy the dark

--As even the Dean
and Cuchulain might--

fantastic.

[My opinion is that Muldoon peaked in 1990 with his tour de force, MADOC--A Mystery, the book-length poem and astounding work of the imagination. MADOC was large, confounding, mysterious, lyrical, and sui generis (really). Yet many readers/reviewers did not appreciate it. Since that work, Muldoon seemingly has tried to obtain such appreciation by offering more manageable fare--featuring topical themes, easy wit, sentiment, form, and rhyme (not to mention all those pretty names of Irish places). He has served up plates of warm apercus. If that is your thing--fine. He is terribly accomplished--his more recent poems, including those of Moy Sand and Gravel, sparkle with polish and panache. But I will take the polar edge of the creative MADOC thankyouverymuch.]

My rating does not mean this is average poetic work, only that by comparison to his last three collections, it less frequently reaches their daunting and rarified heights. It's actually a better place to start reading the "later" Muldoon, in fact. Domesticity has tamed a bit of the bravura evident in the arcane lore dazzling the other collections perhaps too much. Poems here like "Unapproved Road," mixing Taureg with IRA in its 1950s failed "border campaign," wittily contrast in a way that Muldoon warms to more and more as his work confronts his own hyphenating midlife identity into an American as much as an Irish poet. "Guns & Butter," "Whitethorns," "A Brief Course on Decommissioning" address the post-1998 events in the North of Ireland intelligently and without pandering. His children and wife now enter his work to round it out more vividly, and at least some of the shorter poems here continue the clarity sought in "Hay"'s briefer verses.

The reason this collection loses a star is the last poem, as usual in his work a longer one: "At the Sign of the Black Horse." The Irish navvy-Jewish mogul undercurrent never convinces, but seems layered over the parental concerns. Where Muldoon often swerves to avoid obstacles, here he seems to plow ahead, but ends up floundering a bit when taking more time to expand and concentrate his direction would've made for a better poetic quest into a very deserving subject of culture clash.

Don't buy anything from Lawgame. I purchased a lawschool book from them and they claimed to have sent but, conveniently, couldn't provide me with ANY sort of tracking data. The employee at Lawgame that I was corresponding with in an attempt to rectify this problem was also very short and impolite to me when I requested this information. Find somewhere else to buy your books.

The Crunch Time series is great for the Law School Exams-- the "cheater" charts are especially helpful. I'm glad that I held on to the
Crim Pro and Evidence books. In my work as a JAG attorney, I have found that they are perfect memory joggers to help with my part-time prosecution duties.

It is a very thorough commercial outline. However, there are many details that are being left out. In brief, it is not a perfect substitute for actual textbooks.

This book was basically mildly mediocre. Maybe it's because I already know something about the antitrust laws, but I didn't feel that this book actually told me anything new. I feel that perhaps in their effort to make the antitrust laws "readable" by a layman they have made the material useless. You could probably find just as useful an introduction to antitrust laws online someplace for free.

As a non-lawyer and a non-expert in antitrust, I found this to be a very useful introduction and reference. It takes a fairly dispassionate view of antitrust, yet gives the reader some insight into some of the controversies and unresolved issues in the field. The writing is clear and often lively. The authors use examples well to illustrate their point, but don't go into excessive detail. It doesn't just cover the laws, but it covers the procedures and some of the key doctrines that have developed over the years. A student of antitrust will probably want a much more comprehensive book, but for someone just getting in to the topic this is an excellent, inexpensive and short introduction. It probably took me about three or four hours to read the whole book.

This book is so easy to read and everything is organized the same way in each chapter, making note-taking a breeze. Each chapter ends with quizzes and the answers are in the back to check. Also, the website offers an additional quiz in terminology and multiple choice. To prepare for my exams, I simply studied the quizzes at the end of each chapter as well as online and I got an A on every test. I learned a lot about the different sociological viewpoints of each subject studied in each chapter. This textbook is great for students.

I just wish there was a way to get reviews on textbooks. I previewed several books ultimately deciding on this text. Do yourself a favor if you are a teacher and don't touch this book. The information is presented in the most dull way and further everything is DATED. I have never become so frustrated with a text that discusses current race relations with data from the 1980's. If you are considering this text, just glance at some of the data and you will get my point.

While the big books is probably excellent, this $5 "book" is a suppliment that is entirely on the order of "In note 4, delete the sixth line and insert; "property, E&P is reduced by the value of the property (to the extent the distribution is treated as a dvidend)." " Perhaps useful if you have the 2006 edition and need the 2007 corrections, but totally useless without the original book. Not what I was expecting.

The organization of this book makes corporate and partnership tax law more approachable than I ever thought possible! Kwall's use of Examples throughout the book takes concepts and makes them concrete. Clarity is further gained through Problems he provides which often mimic the Examples so that you can try them on your own. The division of the book into sections on Contributions, Distributions, and Operations also allows a good side-by-side comparison of the various tax consequences of different business entities. Excellent. Highly recommend it for anyone struggling to grasp such dense material.

A fine book, but don't be fooled by its title, as I was--this book covers tax year 1997, not 1998!

Has anyone ever employed by H & R Block ever taken the time to read the internal revenue code? I highly doubt it, but even if they did, they wouldn't tell you what is contained in it as it would put the company (and indeed most so called "tax professionals") out of business. What the authors fail to tell us is that most U.S. Citizens are not liable for any income taxes. If you work within the fifty states for a non-federal government employer your earnings are not (by legal statute) subject to taxation. Incredible? You bet. Don't read this book - stop relying on this sort of "advice" and read the tax laws!