Pearson's Federal Taxation 2020 Individuals, 33rd edition

Published by Pearson (August 9, 2019) © 2020

  • Timothy J. Rupert Northeastern University
  • Kenneth E. Anderson University of Tennessee

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  • Financial Statement Implications discuss the ramifications of Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 740.
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  • Ethical Points, Tax Strategy Tips, and Additional Comments highlight supplemental information to the text.
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    • Keep your course current with the latest rulings and regulations

    • Updated - Significant court cases and IRS rulings and procedures during 2018 and early 2019.
    • Updated - Chapter material for the provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2018 affecting individual taxpayers, including new rules and related implications.
    • New and Updated - End-of-chapter tax return problems have been updated for 2018. Also, supplemental explanations for each tax return problem of how the solution will change for the 2019 tax year given the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, have been included.
    • Updated - All tax rate schedules have been updated to reflect the rates and inflation adjustments for 2019.
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    Help students master the material through supportive learning aids

    • TaxACT 2018 Software, available via online purchase, is a user-friendly tax preparation program that includes more than 80 tax forms, schedules, and worksheets. TaxACT calculates returns and alerts users to possible errors or entries.

    Keep your course current with the latest rulings and regulations

    • Significant court cases and IRS rulings and procedures during 2018 and early 2019.
    • Chapter material for the provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2018 affecting individual taxpayers, including new rules and related implications.
    • End-of-chapter tax return problems have been updated for 2018. Also, supplemental explanations for each tax return problem of how the solution will change for the 2019 tax year given the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, have been included.
    • All tax rate schedules have been updated to reflect the rates and inflation adjustments for 2019.
    • The latest content. Whenever new updates become available, they will be accessible via MyLab Accounting.

    1. An Introduction to Taxation

    2. Determination of Tax

    3. Gross Income: Inclusions

    4. Gross Income: Exclusions

    5. Property Transactions: Capital Gains and Losses

    6. Deductions and Losses

    7. Itemized Deductions

    8. Losses and Bad Debts

    9. Business and Employee Expenses and Deferred Compensation

    10. Depreciation, Cost Recovery, Amortization, and Depletion

    11. Accounting Periods and Methods

    12. Property Transactions: Nontaxable Exchanges

    13. Property Transactions: Section 1231 and Recapture

    14. Special Tax Computation Methods, Tax Credits, and Payment of Tax

    15. Tax Research

    16. Corporations

    17. Partnerships and S Corporations

    18. Taxes and Investment Planning

    Tables: 2018 Tax Tables and Rate Schedules and 2019 Withholding Tables (Partial)


    Appendix A: Tax Research Working Paper File

    Appendix B: Tax Forms

    Appendix C: MACRS Tables

    Appendix D: Glossary

    Appendix E: AICPA Statements on Standards for Tax Services Nos. 1-7

    Appendix F: Index of Code Sections

    Appendix G: Index of Treasury Regulations

    Appendix H: Index of Government Promulgations

    Appendix I: Index of Court Cases

    Appendix J: Subject Index

    Timothy J. Rupert is a Professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. He received his BS in accounting and his master of taxation from the University of Akron. He also earned his PhD from Penn State University. Professor Rupert’s research has been published in such journals as The Accounting Review, The Journal of the American Taxation Association, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Advances in Taxation, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Advances in Accounting Education, and the Journal of Accounting Education.

    In 2010, he received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Massachusetts Society of CPAs. He also has received the University’s Excellence in Teaching Award and the D’Amore-McKim School’s Best Teacher of the Year award multiple times. He is active in the American Accounting Association and the American Taxation Association (ATA) and has served as president, vice president, and secretary of the ATA.

    Kenneth E. Anderson is the Pugh CPAs Professor of Accounting at the University of Tennessee. He earned a BBA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and subsequently attained the level of tax manager with Arthur Young (now part of Ernst & Young). He then earned a PhD from Indiana University. He teaches corporate taxation, partnership taxation, and tax strategy. Professor Anderson also is the Director of the Master of Accountancy Program. He has published articles in The Accounting Review, The Journal of the American Taxation Association, Advances in Taxation, the Journal of Accountancy, the Journal of Financial Service Professionals, and a number of other journals.

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