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JK Lasser's From eBay to
Mary Kay
Taxes Made Easy
for Your Home Business

Author: Gary W. Carter, Ph.D., MT, CPA
Retail Price: $16.95 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047177104X
Publishing Date: November 11, 2005 

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What a great time for running a home-based business! Advances in telecommunication and Internet technology have made working from home easier than ever before. Today, millions of people are making either a full- or part-time living selling things on Internet auction sites like eBay. Still more are making a living selling products from their homes -- think Mary Kay and Avon. If you're just entering the home-based or online business arena, you might not be aware of your potential tax liabilities and opportunities.

Congress has made the home office deduction rules less restrictive than at any time since 1976. From this  Sixth Edition of Taxes Made Easy for Your Home Business, you will learn how virtually any home-based business owner can qualify for important tax benefits. This guide will show you how to qualify for home-office deductions even if your home office is not your primary place of business.

From eBay to Mary Kay, Taxes Made Easy for Your Home Business, 6th Edition, features all of the relevant new tax laws, and is expanded over previous versions to cover the rules for sales of inventory. It is the perfect nuts and bolts tax guide for self-employed professionals, side-line business owners, consultants, freelancers and employees who work from home. It is exhaustive, detailed, and easy to read. There is even a little humor thrown in.

Many taxpayers blindly trust a tax preparer, never knowing if they are truly paying the least tax possible. This book gives you the opportunity to determine that for yourself. You will learn how to plan your home-office activities for the coming years, and you will have the satisfaction of being intimately familiar with a significant aspect of your federal tax liability.

The Home Office Association of America calls JK Lasser's Taxes Made Easy for Your Home Business "the best tax guide available for home-based business people." Paul and Sarah Edwards, America's foremost experts on home-based businesses, call it "a must for anyone who works from home and wants to do their own taxes, or understand what their preparer should be doing." And John Knowlton, Editor of Business@Home Magazine, calls it "a reassuringly simple guide to understanding your taxes when you work from home."

Each chapter contains endnote references to the text. They are filled with cites to Internal Revenue Code sections, court decisions, Treasury regulations and IRS rulings. These are the primary sources of authority for the rules of federal taxation (discussed in Chapter One). It is not necessary to read the endnotes as you study this book, but they are important to fully document the advice and suggestions offered. If your deductions are ever challenged by the IRS you will be able to back them up with the appropriate legal authority.

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