The Ernst & Young Tax Guide 2005 (Ernst and Young Tax Guide) (Paperback)

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Year after year, The Ernst & Young Tax Guide hits national bestseller lists and garners rave reviews. The most user-friendly, most current guide available to preparing your own tax return, this essential resource contains all the information readers need to save on their taxes. The accessible format walks us step-by-step through the daunting filing process, with sample tax forms and schedules demonstrating how to fill out a tax return line by line. As the only guide that provides complete coverage of the new tax law provisions, the necessary forms for the upcoming tax season, plus the IRS’s official filing instructions for these forms, it’s no wonder The New York Times praises it as "the top choice among popular tax books."   The Ernst & Young Tax Guide is really two books in one. The first book is a reproduction of the official IRS tax guide, Publication 17, Your Federal Income Tax. Published annually, this guide contains the position of the IRS on many of the questions taxpayers need answered. The second book is the Ernst & Young guide, offering comments, explanations, and tax-saving tips on what the IRS tells us—and doesn’t tell us. The two books have been combined in one volume to provide taxpayers with the most thorough guide on the market.

Product Details

• Paperback: 735 pages
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group; 20th edition (December 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593150199
• ISBN-13: 978-1593150198
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #935,753 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Handy Tax guide, January 17, 2005

By	Eric Kent (USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

I have used the Ernst & Young Tax Guides since 1997 and have found them quite valuable. There is a lot of good information that helps you find unknown deductions.

The book cost $17.00, but should easily save you hundreds if not thousands in various tax savings.

8 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What a waste! IRS gives it for free., January 17, 2005

By	scg "scg" (Colorado Springs, CO, USA) - See all my reviews

This book is nothing more than the Pub 17 available for free by downloading from the IRS web site. It does have some nice notes but the US Gov't should demand that Ernst & Young pay royalties to them...that's us taxpayers. No wonder the Big Five is now the Big Four and if this is what is out there perhaps soon to be the Big Three. E&Y has shown us a very poor example of business ethics.

0 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Dummies, JK Lasser for foreign workers/earnings, February 16, 2005

By	Mr. A. Peery - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've not purchased the book yet, but this 3 book review
[...] indicates that the E&Y book was the only book containing information about foreign income & foreigners living in the US. It was compared against:

J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2005
Taxes 2005 for Dummies