Federal Taxation: Comprehensive Topics 2017 edition

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Ephraim P. Smith, Philip J. Harmelink, and James R. Hasselback
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting

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  • Chapter 1: Introduction to Federal Taxation and Understanding the Federal Tax Law
    • 1.1: Fundamental Aspects of Federal Taxation
    • 1.2: Underlying Rationale of the Federal Income Tax
    • 1.3: Basic Tax Concepts
    • 1: True-False Questions (27)
    • 1: Multiple Choice Questions (16)

  • Chapter 2: Tax Research, Practice, and Procedure
    • 2.1: Tax Reference Materials
    • 2.2: Primary Source Materials
    • 2.3: Secondary Source Materials
    • 2.4: Research Methodology
    • 2.5: Tax Administration
    • 2.6: Tax Practice and Procedure
    • 2: True-False Questions (64)
    • 2: Multiple Choice Questions (54)

  • Chapter 3: Individual Taxation–An Overview
    • 3.1: Individual Taxation–An Overview
    • 3.2: Personal Exemptions
    • 3.3: Filing Status and Requirements
    • 3: True-False Questions (31)
    • 3: Multiple Choice Questions (19)

  • Chapter 4: Gross Income
    • 4.1: The Concept of Income
    • 4.2: Economic Benefit, Constructive Receipt, and Assignment of Income Doctrines
    • 4.3: Items Included in Gross Income
    • 4.4: Stock Option Plans
    • 4: True-False Questions (39)
    • 4: Multiple Choice Questions (40)

  • Chapter 5: Gross Income–Exclusions
    • 5.1: Common Exclusions from Gross Income
    • 5.2: Employee Benefits
    • 5: True-False Questions (21)
    • 5: Multiple Choice Questions (40)

  • Chapter 6: Deductions: General Concepts and Trade or Business Deductions
    • 6.1: Categories of Allowable Deductions
    • 6.2: Trade or Business Deductions
    • 6.3: Expenses Incurred for the Production of Income
    • 6.4: Deductions for Losses
    • 6.5: Other Allowable Deductions "For" AGI
    • 6.6: Employee Business Expenses
    • 6.7: Limitations on the Deductibility of Expenses
    • 6.8: Business Deductions Related to Capital Expenditures
    • 6: True-False Questions (50)
    • 6: Multiple Choice Questions (60)

  • Chapter 7: Deductions: Business/Investment Losses and Passive Activity Losses
    • 7.1: Tax Shelters and At-Risk Rules
    • 7.2: Passive Activity Loss Rules
    • 7.3: Business and Investment Losses
    • 7: True-False Questions (30)
    • 7: Multiple Choice Questions (30)

  • Chapter 8: Deductions: Itemized Deductions
    • 8.1: Medical Expenses
    • 8.2: Taxes
    • 8.3: Interest
    • 8.4: Charitable Contributions
    • 8.5: Personal Casualty and Theft Losses
    • 8.6: Miscellaneous Itemized Deductions
    • 8.7: Investment Expenses
    • 8: True-False Questions (41)
    • 8: Multiple Choice Questions (31)

  • Chapter 9: Tax Credits, Prepayments, and Alternate Minimum Tax
    • 9.1: Nonrefundable Tax Credits
    • 9.2: Refundable Tax Credits
    • 9.3: Alternate Minimum Tax
    • 9: True-False Questions (47)
    • 9: Multiple Choice Questions (35)

  • Chapter 10: Property Transactions: Determination of Basis and Gains and Losses
    • 10.1: Factors in Determining Gain or Loss
    • 10.2: Determination of Basis
    • 10: True-False Questions (35)
    • 10: Multiple Choice Questions (44)

  • Chapter 11: Property Transactions: Nonrecognition of Gains and Losses
    • 11.1: Sale of a Personal Residence
    • 11.2: Like-Kind Exchanges
    • 11.3: Involuntary Conversions
    • 11.4: Other Transactions Involving Nonrecognition
    • 11: True-False Questions (40)
    • 11: Multiple Choice Questions (50)

  • Chapter 12: Property Transactions: Treatment of Capital and Section 1231 Assets
    • 12.1: Special Rules and Limitations on Transactions
    • 12.2: Special Situations in Capital v. Ordinary Treatment
    • 12.3: Holding Period
    • 12.4: Individual Taxpayers
    • 12.5: Special Provisions for Certain Investments
    • 12.6: Section 1231 Assets and Procedure
    • 12.7: Depreciation Recapture–Section 1245
    • 12.8: Depreciation Recapture–Section 1250
    • 12.9: Recapture Rules in Other Events
    • 12: True-False Questions (56)
    • 12: Multiple Choice Questions (52)

  • Chapter 13: Tax Accounting
    • 13.1: Taxable Income and Tax Liability for Various Entities
    • 13.2: Accounting Periods
    • 13.3: Change of Accounting Periods
    • 13.4: Accounting Methods
    • 13.5: Change of Accounting Methods
    • 13.6: Inventories
    • 13.7: Long-term Contracts
    • 13.8: Installment Sales
    • 13: True-False Questions (18)
    • 13: Multiple Choice Questions (61)

  • Chapter 14: Taxation of Corporations–Basic Concepts
    • 14.1: Entity Choice
    • 14.2: Organization Of and Transfers to a Corporation
    • 14.3: Corporate Capital Structure
    • 14.4: Determination of Corporate Taxable Income
    • 14.5: Determination of Corporate Income Tax Liability
    • 14: True-False Questions (22)
    • 14: Multiple Choice Questions (62)

  • Chapter 15: Corporate Nonliquidating Distributions
    • 15.1: Distributions With Respect to Stock
    • 15.2: Stock Redemptions
    • 15: True-False Questions (20)
    • 15: Multiple Choice Questions (43)

  • Chapter 16: Corporate Distributions in Complete Liquidations
    • 16.1: Complete Liquidations
    • 16.2: Effect of Complete Liquidation on Corporations
    • 16.3: Effect of Complete Liquidation on Shareholders
    • 16.4: Liquidation of Subsidiaries
    • 16.5: Stock Purchases Treated as Asset Acquisitions
    • 16: True-False Questions (20)
    • 16: Multiple Choice Questions (25)

  • Chapter 17: Corporate Reorganizations
    • 17.1: Types of Corporate Reorganizations
    • 17.2: Considerations for Nonrecognition Treatment
    • 17.3: Carryover of Tax Attributes
    • 17.4: Judicial Requirements
    • 17: True-False Questions (20)
    • 17: Multiple Choice Questions (25)

  • Chapter 18: Accumulated Earnings and Personal Holding Company Taxes
    • 18.1: Accumulated Earnings Tax
    • 18.2: Personal Holding Company Tax
    • 18: True-False Questions (10)
    • 18: Multiple Choice Questions (26)

  • Chapter 19: Partnerships–Formation and Operation
    • 19.1: Definition of a Partnership
    • 19.2: Partnership Reporting
    • 19.3: Partnership Accounting Concepts
    • 19.4: Formation of a Partnership–Contributions Requiring Special Consideration
    • 19.5: Formation of a Partnership–Recognition of Gain or Loss
    • 19.6: Taxable Year of Partner and Partnership
    • 19.7: Operation of the Partnership
    • 19.8: Partner-Partnership Transactions
    • 19.9: Deductibility of Losses
    • 19.10: Termination of Partnership
    • 19.11: Family Partnerships
    • 19: True-False Questions (27)
    • 19: Multiple Choice Questions (49)

  • Chapter 20: Partnerships–Distribution, Sales, and Exchanges
    • 20.1: Partnership Distributions
    • 20.2: Partnership Current Distributions
    • 20.3: Partnership Liquidating Distributions
    • 20.4: Effect of Liabilities
    • 20.5: Disproportionate Distributions–Distribution of "Hot" Assets
    • 20.6: Sale of a Partner's Interest in the Partnership
    • 20.7: Partnership Basis Adjustments
    • 20.8: Retirement or Death of a Partner
    • 20: True-False Questions (20)
    • 20: Multiple Choice Questions (40)

  • Chapter 21: S Corporations
    • 21.1: Selecting the Subchapter S Form
    • 21.2: S Corporation Taxation
    • 21.3: Treatment of Income, Deductions, and Credits
    • 21.4: Treatment of Corporate Distributions
    • 21.5: Termination of Election
    • 21.6: Operational Rules
    • 21: True-False Questions (40)
    • 21: Multiple Choice Questions (49)

  • Chapter 22: Federal Estate Tax, Federal Gift Tax, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax
    • 22.1: Impact of Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, Tax Relief Act of 2010, and American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012
    • 22.2: Assessment of the 2010 Tax Relief Act
    • 22.3: Legal Terms Common to Estates and Trusts
    • 22.4: Computation and Payment of Estate Tax
    • 22.5: Gross Estate
    • 22.6: Conservation Easement
    • 22.7: Valuation of Gross Estate
    • 22.8: Deductions from the Gross Estate
    • 22.9: Federal Gift Tax
    • 22.10: Exclusions
    • 22.11: Generation-Skipping Transfer (GST) Tax
    • 22: True-False Questions (25)
    • 22: Multiple Choice Questions (35)

  • Chapter 23: Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates
    • 23.1: Taxation of Estates
    • 23.2: Taxation of Trusts
    • 23.3: Federal Income Taxation Scheme–Estates and Trusts
    • 23.4: Taxation of Trusts–Special Rules
    • 23: True-False Questions (25)
    • 23: Multiple Choice Questions (25)

  • Chapter 24: Deferred Compensation and Education Savings Plan
    • 24.1: Employer-Sponsored Deferred Compensation Plans: "Qualified" and "Nonqualified"
    • 24.2: Basic Types of Employer-Sponsored Qualified Retirement Plans
    • 24.3: Qualified Plan Requirements
    • 24.4: Tax Consequences to Employer and Employee
    • 24.5: Common Retirement Plans for Large Businesses
    • 24.6: Common Retirement Plans for Small Businesses
    • 24.7: Personal Retirement Plans for Working Individuals
    • 24.8: Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans
    • 24.9: Education Savings Vehicles
    • 24: True-False Questions (23)
    • 24: Multiple Choice Questions (39)

  • Chapter 25: Multijurisdictional Taxation: International and State and Local Transactions
    • 25.1: State and Local Taxation (SALT)
    • 25.2: Limitations on the Power of States and Local Authorities to Impose Taxes
    • 25.3: Determining Whether a Nonresident is Subject to a State's Taxes
    • 25.4: Types of Taxes Imposed by States
    • 25.5: International Taxation
    • 25.6: Sourcing Income
    • 25.7: Sourcing Deductions
    • 25.8: U.S. Taxation of Foreign Persons
    • 25.9: Taxation of U.S. Shareholders Who Own Foreign Corporation Stock
    • 25.10: U.S. Taxation of Foreign Income
    • 25.11: Corporate Inversions
    • 25: True-False Questions (20)
    • 25: Multiple Choice Questions (45)


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Chapter 1: Introduction to Federal Taxation and Understanding the Federal Tax Law
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Chapter 2: Tax Research, Practice, and Procedure
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Chapter 3: Individual Taxation–An Overview
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Chapter 4: Gross Income
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Chapter 5: Gross Income–Exclusions
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Chapter 6: Deductions: General Concepts and Trade or Business Deductions
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Chapter 7: Deductions: Business/Investment Losses and Passive Activity Losses
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Chapter 8: Deductions: Itemized Deductions
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Chapter 9: Tax Credits, Prepayments, and Alternate Minimum Tax
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Chapter 10: Property Transactions: Determination of Basis and Gains and Losses
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Chapter 11: Property Transactions: Nonrecognition of Gains and Losses
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Chapter 12: Property Transactions: Treatment of Capital and Section 1231 Assets
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Chapter 13: Tax Accounting
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Chapter 14: Taxation of Corporations–Basic Concepts
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Chapter 15: Corporate Nonliquidating Distributions
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Chapter 16: Corporate Distributions in Complete Liquidations
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Chapter 17: Corporate Reorganizations
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Chapter 18: Accumulated Earnings and Personal Holding Company Taxes
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Chapter 19: Partnerships–Formation and Operation
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Chapter 20: Partnerships–Distribution, Sales, and Exchanges
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Chapter 21: S Corporations
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Chapter 22: Federal Estate Tax, Federal Gift Tax, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax
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Chapter 23: Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates
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Chapter 24: Deferred Compensation and Education Savings Plan
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Chapter 25: Multijurisdictional Taxation: International and State and Local Transactions
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