Understanding federal income taxation /

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Main Author: Burke, J. Martin
Other Authors: Friel, Michael K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, 2016
Edition:Fifth edition
Series:Understanding series
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Table of Contents:
  • Gross income concepts and limitations
  • The effect of an obligation to repay
  • Gains derived from dealings in property
  • Gifts, bequests and inheritance
  • Sale of a principal residence
  • Scholarships and prizes
  • Life insurance, annuities, and individual retirement accounts
  • Discharge of indebtedness
  • Compensation for personal injury and physical sickness
  • Fringe benefits
  • Business and profit seeking expenses
  • Capital expenditures
  • Depreciation
  • Losses and bad debts
  • Travel expenses
  • Entertainment and business meals
  • Educational expenses
  • Other deductible personal expenses
  • Hobby losses
  • Home offices, vacation homes and other dual use property
  • The interest deduction
  • The deduction for taxes
  • Casualty losses
  • Medical expenses
  • Charitable deductions
  • Limitations on deductions
  • Cash method accounting
  • Accrual method accounting
  • Annual accounting
  • Capital gains and losses
  • Quasi-capital assets : section 1231
  • Depreciation recapture
  • Assignment of income
  • Below-market loans
  • Tax consequences of divorce
  • Effect of debt on basis and amount realized
  • Like-kind exchanges
  • Involuntary conversions
  • Installment sales
  • Sale of a business and sale-leasebacks
  • An introduction to original issue discount
  • Limitations on tax shelters
  • The alternative minimum tax