• How your Social Security retirement benefits, spousal benefits, and widow/widower benefits are calculated
• How your benefits are affected if you have a government pension or if you continue working while claiming Social Security
• How to decide when is the best age for you (and your spouse, if you're married) to claim Social Security in order to get the most out of your benefits
• Whether or not it makes sense to take Social Security early in order to invest the money
• How to check your earnings record on the Social Security Administration's website to make sure you're getting the full benefit you deserve
• How Social Security benefits are taxed and how this affects retirement tax planning

Please note that this book does not cover Social Security disability benefits or Supplemental Security Income (SSI).

• The difference between deductions and credits
• Itemized deductions vs. the standard deduction
• Several money-saving deductions and credits and how to make sure you qualify for them
• How to calculate your refund
• How to know which tax forms to fill out
• State income taxes
• Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)
• Capital Gains and Losses

Find the following, explained in plain-English with no legal jargon:
The basics of sole proprietorship, partnership, LLC, S-Corp, and C-Corp taxation.
How to protect your personal assets from lawsuits against your business.
When the protection offered by an LLC will work. (And more importantly, when it will not!)
Which business structures could reduce your federal income tax or self-employment tax.

Business Taxation 101: A brief primer on tax topics in general, especially as they apply to businesses.

Home Office Deduction: How to ensure you qualify for it and how to calculate it.

Estimated Tax payments: When and how to pay them, as well as an easy way to calculate each payment.

Self-Employment Tax: What it is, why it exists, and how to calculate it.

Business Retirement Plans: What the different types are, and which one is best for you.

Numerous Business Deductions: Several deductions explained in detail, including how to make sure you can qualify to take them and how to maximize them.

Audit Protection: Learn what records you need to keep (and how long to keep them) in order to protect yourself in case of an audit.

• How to calculate how much you'll need saved before you can retire
• How to use annuities to minimize the risk of outliving your money
• How to choose which accounts (Roth vs. traditional IRA vs. taxable) to withdraw from each year
• When it makes sense to use a Roth IRA conversion to save on taxes
• How to choose an appropriate asset allocation for your retirement portfolio
• How to minimize taxes by proper use of an asset location strategy
• How to reliably pick winning mutual funds

• Fixed costs, variable costs, and how to use them to perform cost-volume-profit analysis for a business
• Product costs, period costs, and why the distinction is important
• Direct costs, indirect costs, and how to assign each of them to cost objects for better decision-making
• How to use activity-based costing to allocate overhead costs
• Job order costing and process costing
• How to budget for a business and how to use variance analysis to identify potential problems when results vary from budgeted amounts