Only one resource provides practical guidance to help ensure compliance with all Sarbanes-Oxley rules and regulations. Introducing the new Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Planning & Compliance, the first resource providing practical, step-by-step guidance to help you navigate the Sarbanes-Oxley maze and ensure compliance.

Written by two well-respected authorities, this unique and invaluable compendium:

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Authors: Bruce M. Nelson, MA, CPA; James T. Collins, J.D.; and John C. Healy, MST, CPA

The 2015 edition of the Sales and Use Tax Answer Book continues to provide coverage of topics such as subjects of sales and use tax, taxable persons, taxable transactions, interstate and extraterritorial transactions, constitutional issues and the latest updates on the Streamlined Sales Tax. Also included are case summaries which cover such areas as statistical sampling methodology, nexus, collection of sales tax by remote sellers, sales tax and the requirements of the commerce clause, sales made through independent contractors or brokers, sales and use tax in internet/electronic commerce, collection of use tax by a remote seller and minimum contacts requirements for out-of-state retailers.

A free link to the online version (PDF) of the Multistate Corporate Tax Course 2015 for CPE will be included.

Chapter 1      Nature and Purpose of Sales and Use Taxation
Chapter 2      Constitutional Rights
Chapter 3      Taxable Persons
Chapter 4      Taxable Transactions
Chapter 5      Interstate and Extraterritorial Transactions
Chapter 6      Subjects of Sales and Use Taxes
Chapter 7      Amount of Tax
Chapter 8      Accounting Methods
Chapter 9      Rates of Tax
Chapter 10      Returns or Reports
Chapter 11      Payment
Chapter 12      Refunds and Credits
Chapter 13      Organization of State Sales and Use Tax Administrations
Chapter 14      License and Registration
Chapter 15      Audits
Chapter 16      Assessment and Appeals Process
Chapter 17      Collection of Tax by Seller
Chapter 18      Collection of Tax by State
Chapter 19      Penalties
Chapter 20      Local State Taxes
Chapter 21      Sales Tax Reform and the Streamlined Sales Tax
Chapter 22      Gross Receipts Tax

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Authors:  Bruce M. Nelson, MA, CPA; 
                 James T. Collins, J.D.; and 
                 John C. Healy, MST, CPA

Provide coverage of topics such as subjects of sales and use tax, taxable persons, taxable transactions, interstate and extraterritorial transactions, constitutional issues and the latest updates on the Streamlined Sales Tax. Also included are case summaries which cover such areas as statistical sampling methodology, nexus, collection of sales tax by remote sellers, sales tax and the requirements of the commerce clause, sales made through independent contractors or brokers, sales and use tax in internet/electronic commerce, collection of use tax by a remote seller and minimum contacts requirements for out-of-state retailers.

Chapter 1 Nature and Purpose of Sales and Use Taxation
Chapter 2 Constitutional Rights
Chapter 3 Taxable Persons
Chapter 4 Taxable Transactions
Chapter 5 Interstate and Extraterritorial Transactions
Chapter 6 Subjects of Sales and Use Taxes
Chapter 7 Amount of Tax
Chapter 8 Accounting Methods
Chapter 9 Rates of Tax
Chapter 10 Returns or Reports
Chapter 11 Payment
Chapter 12 Refunds and Credits
Chapter 13 Organization of State Sales and Use Tax Administrations
Chapter 14 License and Registration
Chapter 15 Audits
Chapter 16 Assessment and Appeals Process
Chapter 17 Collection of Tax by Seller
Chapter 18 Collection of Tax by State
Chapter 19 Penalties
Chapter 20 Local State Taxes
Chapter 21 Sales Tax Reform and the Streamlined Sales Tax
Chapter 22 Gross Receipts Tax

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Author: Robert W. Jamison, CPA, Ph.D.

The S corporation is the most popular entity for closely held businesses, but the rules that regulate S corporations and make them a popular choice are complex, confusing and in a state of flux. CCH's popular "S Corporation Taxation" offers an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of S corporation taxation and uses extensive examples to illustrate both simple and complex situations. In areas where authorities do not provide clear guidance, the author constructs plausible courses of action, with appropriate analysis.

Published annually, S Corporation Taxation focuses on the rules of Subchapter S of the Internal Revenue Code and integrates these rules with other portions of the tax law that can have substantial impact on S corporations and their shareholders. At the end of each chapter are pertinent checklists, worksheets and sample election letters to help apply the concepts discussed to the reader's actual real life situation.

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When you need to complete a U.S. tax return, put the power of CCH tax software to work for you with Prosystem fx Tax. It is the most comprehensive system available, providing full capabilities for all types of U.S. returns (Federal and State).

• Used by 65% of the top 30,000 U.S. firms
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Features include:

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• All types of U.S. forms and guides, including those used by Canadian tax preparers - 1040NR, 1120F, 1116, 2555, 5491, 5492, 1065, 1041, 706, 8833, etc.
• The best system and tax support in the industry! Even during tax season, our customer support is always there when needed!
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• A comprehensive on-screen review system includes thousands of interactive diagnostics that link to input - by far the most in the industry
• Classroom-quality interactive training over the Internet
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Automatic calculations, overrides, diagnostics, and optimizations are available for every type of U.S. return.

• Individual (1040) - Producing everything from your simplest accommodation returns to your most complex 1040s (including 1040NR)
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Private Dispute Resolution in International Business: Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration 2nd Revised Edition consists of two books and an interactive DVD.

Volume I follows the progress of a dispute between two companies, in step-by-step detail, through negotiation, mediation, and arbitration in turn. Volume II provides precise, informed solutions to the problems raised in the first volume’s case study.

The DVD contains not only all contracts and other written documentation produced during the dispute — including all procedural orders and awards rendered by the arbitral tribunal during the arbitration, the text of legal materials such as arbitration laws and rules and international conventions, and further learning and teaching aids — but also almost 100 videos dramatising the negotiation, mediation, and arbitration proceedings described in the books, conducted by highly experienced practitioners active in the field of international dispute resolution. Subtitles in the videos refer the viewer to paragraphs in the books where each relevant legal problem is analysed.

With its concrete and highly practical approach, this innovative teaching and training tool for international dispute resolution will be of immeasurable value to students and teachers of dispute resolution, corporate counsel, international lawyers, and business people.

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An essential compliance tool for every privacy officer and attorney involved in managing privacy and data security issues, Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook provides the thorough, practical, sector-specific guidance that helps you meet today's challenges and minimize the risk of data breaches that can damage a company's reputation.

It enables you to comply with data privacy laws relating to:

• Marketing efforts – including standards governing online behavioral advertising and targeted marketing
• Privacy in the workplace – such as standards governing employee monitoring and background screening of employees and applicant
• Health information – focusing on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), with insight into the HITECH Act's impact on data breaches and other recent changes
• Financial privacy – including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act's regulations for the collection and disclosure of personal information in the banking and insurance industries
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Packed with sample documents, checklists, and other compliance-enabling tools, this resource allows you to:

• Navigate the various breach notification requirements in the more than 45 states that have such laws in place
• Comply with global data protection laws (including those in the EU), facilitating compliance with cross-border data transfer restrictions
• Keep current with emerging legal trends, from changes in federal and state laws to the latest data privacy regulations abroad

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The CCH Principles of Business Taxation course approaches the study of taxation from the perspective of the student who will become a business person faced with decisions that are inevitably affected by tax considerations. This perspective leads to a very different coverage in this textbook - coverage that is useful for accounting, finance and general business majors. The new edition focuses on the central concepts that build our tax framework and avoids small exceptions.
Many items that pertain specifically to businesses (for example, inventory valuation issues) usually not discussed in a traditional undergraduate tax textbook are covered in this book. Although so many of the exclusions, deductions, and credits apply equally to individual and corporate taxpayers, this book focuses on the business perspective.
 
?    PART I: OVERVIEW OF TAXES AND THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX SYSTEM
?    PART II: FEDERAL TAXATION OF BUSINESS INCOME AND DEDUCTIONS
?    PART III: TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING BUSINESS PROPERTY
?    PART IV: CALCULATING TAX LIABILITY AND TAXES OWED
?    PART V: SPECIFIC BUSINESS ENTITY ISSUES
?    PART VI: Taxation of International Transactions

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Available: March 2012

Approaches the study of taxation from the perspective of the student who will become a business person faced with business decisions that are inevitably affected by tax considerations. This perspective leads to a very different coverage in this textbook. The new edition focuses on the central concepts that build our tax framework and avoids small exceptions and details to ensure that the student can confidently master the critical underpinnings of federal taxation. It abandons minutia that not only affects a very small number of taxpayers, but also tends to change often.

Many items that pertain specifically to businesses (for example, inventory valuation issues) usually not discussed in a traditional undergraduate tax textbook are covered in this book. Although so many of the exclusions, deductions, and credits apply equally to individual and corporate taxpayers, this book focuses on the business perspective. An advantage to this approach is that most of the students who take only one course in taxation will learn how businesses are taxed and, in turn, will have a better appreciation for how taxes affect business decisions.

While the focus is on concepts and how taxes affect business decisions, individual income taxation is not abandoned. After all, many core tax concepts apply to individuals as well as businesses, and this book is not shy in pointing out such application. It also includes a special chapter on individuals (sole proprietorships) and one on pass-through entities that tie together the underlying threads concerned with these taxpayers throughout the text.

1. OVERVIEW OF TAXES AND THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX SYSTEM
2. FEDERAL TAXATION OF BUSINESS INCOME AND DEDUCTIONS
3. TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING BUSINESS PROPERTY
4. CALCULATING TAX LIABILITY AND TAXES OWED
5. SPECIFIC BUSINESS ENTITY ISSUES

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Author: John R. Price

Providing theoretical grounding and a practice-oriented approach, Price and Donaldson show how to handle the full range of estate planning problems and techniques, including:

• Client counseling
• Durable powers of attorney
• Living wills
• Private annuities
• Charitable remainder trusts
• Life insurance
• Lifetime noncharitable gifts
• Closely held business interests
• Community and marital property
• Retirement plans and IRAs
• Post-mortem planning
• Professional responsibility

Providing theoretical grounding and a practice-oriented approach, Price and Donaldson show how to handle the full range of estate planning problems and techniques, including:

1. Client counseling
2. Durable powers of attorney
3. Living wills
4. Private annuities
5. Charitable remainder trusts
6. Life insurance
7. Lifetime noncharitable gifts
8. Closely held business interests
9. Community and marital property
10. Retirement plans and IRAs
11. Post-mortem planning
12. Professional responsibility and more!

Chapter 1        Professional Responsibility and Estate Planning
Chapter 2        Basic Transfer Tax Laws and Estate Planning Strategies
Chapter 3        Concurrent Ownership and Nontestamentary Transfers
Chapter 4        Wills and Related Documents
Chapter 5        The Gift and Estate Tax Marital Deductions
Chapter 6        Life Insurance
Chapter 7        Planning Lifetime Noncharitable Gifts
Chapter 8        Gifts to Charitable Organizations
Chapter 9        Limiting Estate Size Through Intrafamily Transactions
Chapter 10      Trusts
Chapter 11      Closely-Held Business Interests
Chapter 12      Post-Mortem Planning
Chapter 13      Estate and Income Tax Planning for Retirement Plans and IRAs

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Authors: Michael S. Schadewald and Robert J. Misey, Jr.

Provides readers with a practical command of the tax issues raised by international transactions and how those issues are resolved by U.S. tax laws. The book emphasizes those areas generally accepted to be essentialto tax practice.

PART I: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF U.S. TAXATION OF INTERNATIONAL INCOME

• Overview of U.S. Taxation of International Transactions
• Tax Jurisdiction
• Source of Income Rules

PART II: TAXATION OF FOREIGN ACTIVITIES OF U.S. TAXPAYERS

• Foreign Tax Credit
• Deemed Paid Foreign Tax Credit
• Anti-Deferral Provisions
• Foreign Currency Translation and Transactions
• Export Benefits
• Planning for Foreign Operations
• State Taxation of Foreign Operations

PART III: TAXATION OF U.S. ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN TAXPAYERS

• Foreign Persons Investing in the United States
• Foreign Persons Doing Business in the United States
• Planning for Foreign-Owned U.S. Operations

PART IV: TAXATION ISSUES IMPACTING BOTH U.S. AND FOREIGN TAXPAYERS

• Transfer Pricing
• Income Tax Treaties
• Cross-Border Transfers and Reorganizations
• International Tax Practice and Procedure

Appendices provide reproductions of applicable IRS forms and publications, as well as the latest U.S. Model Income Tax Treaty.

688 pages

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Contains extensive discussion of all recent changes in S Corporation law and practice since the publication of the 5th Edition in 2011. It includes Treasury regulations related to the Code Sec. 199 manufacturing deduction, as well as cases, rulings and pronouncements issued since the 5th Edition.

Comprised of fifteen chapters, this book starts by considering the tax advantages of electing S corporation status. The middle chapters, Chapters 2-12, detail the operations of S corporations, discussing statutory requirements, taxpayers who qualify as shareholders, and considerations when converting a C corporation to S status. Chapter 13 provides a comparison of S corporations to other business entities such as limited liability companies, partnerships, and C corporations. Chapter 14 discusses S corporation subsidiaries, and Chapter 15 covers employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) for S corporations.

Through its straight-forward explanations, generous examples and helpful pointers, Practical Guide to S Corporations provides quick-answers that time-burdened professional’s value. 

CONTENTS:
-    Tax Overview and Compliance
-    Elements of S Corporation Election and Timing
-    S Corporation Income and Expenses
-    Corporate Deductions and Expenses
-    S Corporation Income Taxes
-    Basis and Losses
-    S Corporations Distributions
-    Income and Estate Planning
-    Revocation, Termination, Redemption, Liquidations and Reorganizations
-    Comparison to Other Entities
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Author: David F. Windish

Describes the federal tax consequences of real estate ownership, operations and activities. This updated 6th Edition is the most accessible and affordable reference available for all tax, real estate and investment professionals who need to know the tax ramifications and underpinnings of real estate investment.

The book begins by analyzing the tax basis of real estate and then offers a comprehensive discussion of the forms of ownership with comparative benefits and pitfalls of the differing types. Mortgages, at-risk rules, interest and other financial issues are thoroughly covered. Activities involved once ownership is established are then discussed, including

• rental/leasing arrangements,
• tenant's rent deduction,
• landlord's income,
• lease acquisition and cancellation,
• leasehold improvements, and
• investment credit considerations.

The book thoroughly examines the actual operation of real estate,
including:

• coverage of operating expenses and taxes,
• mixed-use residences,
• startup expenses and
• real estate taxes,

plus guidance on:

• additions and improvements,
• depreciation,
• development and
• related issues.

An in-depth focus on passive activity loss rules is included, as well as a separate section analyzing homeowner issues.

Finally, the disposition of real estate is covered, along with a special discussion dealing with securitized real estate investments.

710 pages

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Author: Robert Ricketts and Larry Tunnell

Discusses the complex issues involving partnership taxation with utmost clarity. It uses hundreds of illustrative examples, practice observations, helpful charts and insightful explanations to make even the most difficult concepts understandable. The book reflects the authors' penchant for communicating the pertinent facts in very direct language and creating a context for understanding the multifaceted issues and applying them to practice.

This new edition fully reflects all the latest developments in this complex area. These include changes affecting:

• partnership basis adjustments
• transfers to partnerships of property with built-in losses
• sale of an interest in a partnership with built-in loss property
• disproportionate distributions from partnerships with built-in loss property
• expensing and amortization of partnership organizational expenses
• partnership treatment of the deduction for domestic production activities
• recognition of cancellation-of-indebtedness income, and more

In six parts, Practical Guide to Partnerships and LLCs covers the critical aspects of this complicated area, with individual parts focusing on partnership characteristics, funding, taxation of operations, partner's share of partnership debt, disposition of partnership interest, and distributions. From choice-of-entity considerations to sales and liquidations, the entire breadth of partnership and LLC taxation is covered. Special attention is given throughout to the complex inter-workings of rules that bind, tax and control these entity operations.

In the book's first part focused on preliminary considerations, the basic underpinnings are presented covering key areas such as the "check the box" rules, "anti-abuse" rules, investment joint venture rules, the application of partnership taxation to LLCs, liability issues, passive loss limitations, audit issues, self-employment taxes, IRS classification, tax year and accounting method selection, and much more.

The second part of Practical Guide to Partnerships and LLCs looks at property contributions and disguised sales, transactions between partner and partnership, and formation and start-up expenses. A special summary table for the tax treatment of pre-opening expenses is included.

Next, the central core of the book explains the taxation of operations including partnership income rules, the pass-through concept, and the partner's share of income and debt. Specific rules, reporting and compliance issues are thoroughly addressed. Form 1065 and schedules L, M-1, M-2, K and K-1 are also explained.

Part four covers partner's share of partnership debt, while disposition of a partnership interest is the subject of the fifth part of Practical Guide to Partnerships and LLCs. This section covers the amount and character of

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Authors: Ray D. Madoff, Cornelia R. Tenney, Martin A. Hall, Lisa Nalchajian Mingolla

Provides an overview of estate planning, offering the widest variety of discussion on planning principles and tools from the simple to the sophisticated. Its scope includes a general overview of the estate planning process. It then addresses the rules involved in estate planning and the various ways in which estates may be structured to achieve desired tax effects. It goes on to discuss gifts, and some of the more specialized areas of estate planning, including generation-skipping transfer tax rules and charitable planning, which encompasses the use of private foundations and split-interest trusts. This book contains a set of estate planning forms.