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The Ernst & Young guide addresses everything from overlooked credits to medical and dental expenses in a clear, easy-to-understand way. Its all-new 2-color design, the first redesign in several years, ensures ease of use and ready access to essential information, while its user-friendly, line-by-line instructions and explanations and inside look at what the IRS doesn’t tell you make it the most comprehensive and well-rounded tax guide on the market. Updates on tax law changes since the book's publication are available free at http://www.ey.com/eytaxguide.
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Table of Contents
The Latest 2009 Tax Law Changes
Tips To Slash Your Taxes This Year and Next
Reminders That Keep Track of Important Tax Records
How to Avoid Some of the Most Common Filing Errors
New Tax Laws and Regulations and How They Affect You
Continuously Updated Web Site!
OVER 1,000 MONEY SAVING TIPS
50 Overlooked Deductions
How to Avoid 25 Common Errors
Chapter 1-Filing Information
Chapter 2-Filing Status
Chapter 3-Personal Exemptions & Dependents
Chapter 4-Tax Withholding and Estimated Tax
Chapter 5-Wages, Salaries and Other Earnings
Chapter 6-Tip Income
Chapter 7-Interest Income
Chapter 8-Dividends and Other Corporate Distributions
Chapter 9-Rental Income and Expenses
Chapter 10-Retirement Plans, Pensions, and Annuities
Chapter 11-Social Security and Equivalent Railroad Retirement Benefits
Chapter 12-Other Income
Chapter 13-Basis of Property
Chapter 14-Sale of Property
Chapter 15-Selling Your Home
Chapter 16-Reporting Gains and Losses
Chapter 17-Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs)
Chapter 18-Alimony
Chapter 19-Education-Related Adjustments
Chapter 20-Moving Expenses
Chapter 21-Standard Deduction
Chapter 22-Medical and Dental Expenses
Chapter 23-Taxes You May Deducts
Chapter 24-Interest Expense
Chapter 25-Contributions
Chapter 26-Casualty and Theft Losses
Chapter 27-Car Expenses and Employee Business Expenses
Chapter 28-Tax Benefits for Work-Related Education
Chapter 29-Miscellaneous Deductions
Chapter 30-Limit on Itemized Deductions
Chapter 31-How to Figure Your Tax
Chapter 32-Tax on Investment Income of Certain Children
Chapter 33-Child and Dependent Care Credit
Chapter 34-Credit for the Elderly or the Disabled
Chapter 35-Child Tax Credit
Chapter 36-Education Credits and Other Education Tax Benefits
Chapter 37-Other Credits Including the Earned Income Credit
Chapter 38-Self-Employment Income:How to File Schedule C
Chapter 39-Mutual Funds
Chapter 40-What to Do If You Employ Domestic Help
Chapter 41-U.S. Citizens Working Abroad: Tax Treatment of Foreign Earned Income
Plus 10 more chapters, and 100s of charts, tables & forms!