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Ernst and Young Tax Guide 2010 (For Preparing Your 2009 Taxes) (Ernst & Young Tax Guide)

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The Ernst and Young tax guide is my go to reference for answering tax related questions. The book explains the tax requirements in plain, easy to read English with plentiful examples of how to apply the instructions.

The EY tax guide is my go to guide for many, many years. It provides details not found in the other tax guides that I find very helpful and essential when preparing returns. The book is easy to use and is broken up in a way that makes sense of the complicated tax code. I especially like the Tax Planner, Tax Alert and Tax Saver features. It saves me the time of searching through mountains of text to find the most important bits of information. I do own other tax guides, but this book is my favorite and most used.

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when you do your taxes most of us need help
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you can get pub 17 free from the irs
or buy it from the govt printing office or ntis
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if you are self employed or have to file sked c then get pub 334 also
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you can use the 1040 instruction book
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but most of us need more help to explain how to do our returns correctly and to get the biggest refund possible (or pay the least tax required)
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if you are a cpa there are some really heavy duty reference sources that cost big bucks. they can deduct those as a biz expense, but it has way too many things that a normal person just does not need.
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that leaves the lasser and ernst&young guidebooks
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most years i have both of those plus pub 17 and the free irs 5xx 9xx publications that elaborate on pub 17 topics
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ernst&young has been the best resource for many years now.
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IMHO lasser covers a lot but does not do it as well or as thoroughly as e&y.
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if you want to pay the least taxes required by law and file a legal return you should get this book as well as pub 17 and the 5xx 9xx resources.
(and pub 334 if you have to file sked c or are self employed)
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if you are an engineer there are some additional resources you might want to get and evaluate. normally they are very repetitive from year to year but getting them once will help make you aware of what you need to know in these other books and to look at in detail.
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all these books will pay for themselves and they are tax deductable!
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if you only buy one get the ernst and young guide
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I have used the E&Y Tax Guide for many years. It is the most comprehensive Guide that I have found for an individual who prepares their personal return.

This will be my 25th year of using the Ernst & Young Tax Guide. It is simply the best.

This one is the best. Written by the pros. More info in this guide than I'll ever need, but nice to know it's there if something unusual comes up. Easy to understand. I purchase this tax guide and H&R Block Tax Cut Deluxe every year. They have never failed me.

Having used the JK Lasser Tax Guide for the past two years, I thought I would try the very highly rated Ernst and Young 2010 Tax Guide. I was extremely disappointed. My eyes were immediately drawn to the large black boxes on each page that repeatedly state: "Tax Planner, Tax Alert or Tax Saver," sometimes multiple times on a page. I found those heavy, black boxes to be a substantial distraction (as were the repeated and untitled "Example" boxes). What I want instead is useful information, quickly. Instead of black boxes on Tax Planner, why not just state a bulleted conclusion, like: "You Cannot Deduct X, Y, Z" and immediately give me an informative result that I can instantly use, with follow-up details should I want to read more? Am sure these folks are terrific tax pros, but in my opinion their media layout and presentation skills are in need of some serious help. I quickly tired of seeing those annoying black boxes. Am going back to JK Lasser but hope that E&Y will use and benefit from what I have intended to be constructive criticism for improvement. Put the result to work for you, not a meaningless, repetitive title box!