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How To Pay Zero Taxes, 2002 Edition

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I was very disappointed to find that even though "2002" was part of the title, nothing in this book was current. I strongly recommend Taxes for Dummies. Don't waste your money on this one.

I purchased and read this book. I felt it was too full of generalizations as I was expecting more specific examples. So I next visited the IRS website to read the real stuff. Now the real pain started - I found could read most of the book(excluding the "Dick & Jane" examples) on the IRS website FOR FREE!

This book does not provide what the title indicates. Was very disappointed as I had expected this book would divulge some little known info for tax breaks. Unless you own a business or have tons and tons of money invested I would pass this by.

good price for a good book, every small business owner, especially on the Internet needs to know this info.

This is the second year in my life I file my taxes (it's the second year I've worked in the US), so until I read this book (actually I skimmed through it, to be honest...) I wasn't too familiarized with the many ways in which you can save money on taxes. And only skimming through it I could make a list of at least twenty items I didn't know I could deduct from my taxes.

The book is written for the nineteenth year in a row by the same author who runs a column about the topic on MoneyCentral.com, so you might know him from there, but that's not all, really. It walks you through all sorts of scenarios, from the typical individual to the business owner, so that you can profit from all possible deductions that apply to your case. In fact I realized that I could be saving a ton more money as a business-owner!!

Finally, he covers some stories about the IRS (some horror ones, in general) but also wisely goes into detail as to why things are the way they are inside the Internal Revenue Service. Even scarier than the possibility of an audit, seemed the level of prehistoric technology they are using to process tax filings... Anyway, the central point is: for the moneyit'll cost you it's worth every penny, and will pay for itself hundreds of times. Buy it!

I read this book at Borders Bookstore. While the book is helpful for those who fill out forms and want a general understanding of the new tax codes, it like many books of its type don't deal with the constitutional principles of taxation. Otto Skinner who wrote The Best Kept Secret is the only one I've seen who does this. So, this book is good to a certain extent, but the reader is no where closer to getting beyond the confusion about direct and indirect taxes.

This book does not provide what the title indicates. Was very disappointed as I had expected this book would divulge some little known info for tax breaks. Unless you own a business or have tons and tons of money invested I would pass this by.