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PPC’s 706/709 Deskbook breaks down the complexities of federal estate, gift, and GST tax issues and provides clear guidance for preparing or reviewing Forms 706, 709, and related GST tax forms. This Deskbook leads you through the compliance process using a forms-based format, explaining the impact of recent important legislation, cases, and rulings. Streamline your client service by relying on our comprehensive, user-friendly guidance.  

PPC’s 990 Deskbook provides detailed, easy-to-understand, and affordable tax return guidance, complete with real life examples and illustrations of completed forms, so you or your staff can quickly and easily resolve and implement the key issues encountered when preparing tax returns for nonprofit organizations. It also provides workflow guidance, tools, and other practice aids to save time and help ensure returns are consistently and accurately prepared. It covers Forms 990, 990-T, 990-PF, and 1023.

PPC's Specialized Industry Tax Guide provides an economical way to obtain the detailed information you need on the unique and varied tax planning and compliance issues facing many of the industries and professions found in your client base, including the oil and gas industry.

PPC's Tax Planning for S Corporations explains the tax consequences of electing and maintaining S status, operating the S corporation, and terminating the S election. It covers other tax issues, too, such as reorganizing the corporation, maintaining a QSub subsidiary, redeeming S stock, or liquidating the S corporation.

PPC's Payroll Tax Deskbook provides the guidance needed to efficiently manage and administer year-end and quarterly payroll reporting. It provides protection against costly payroll compliance penalties by furnishing the latest judicial, legislative, and administrative developments needed to comply with all federal withholding, deposit, and reporting requirements in an effective and efficient manner for a particular filing year. It also provides easy-to-understand coverage of other important payroll topics such as worker classification and Section 530 relief and paying U.S. citizens and resident aliens working abroad.

Given the IRS’s renewed interest in examining pass-through returns and emphasis on practitioner due diligence, proper preparation of your clients' returns is more important than ever. With the key issues, examples, filled-in Schedule K-1s and other forms, checklists, worksheets, and other quality control tools in PPC’s 1120S Deskbook, you and your staff can solve the difficult or unclear issues encountered when preparing Form 1120. The Deskbook points out elections and other tax-saving opportunities while preparing the return; plus, the tax planning roadmap highlights post-busy season planning opportunities that you and your staff.

PPC’s 1041 Deskbook cuts through the complexity of preparing fiduciary income tax returns and provides practical step-by-step guidance on the basics of Form 1041 preparation as well as more complex issues such as determining fiduciary accounting income and distributable net income (DNI), computing the distribution deduction, allocating capital gains and depreciation, reporting income in respect of a decedent, filing Form 1041 in the estate or trust's final year, understanding the reporting requirements for foreign trusts and charitable trusts, and more.

Given the IRS's emphasis on practitioner due diligence, proper preparation of your clients' returns is more important than ever. With the key issues, examples tied to filled-in forms, checklists, worksheets, and other quality control tools you'll find in PPC's 1120 Deskbook, you and your staff can solve the difficult, unclear, or misunderstood issues encountered when preparing Form 1120. The Deskbook points out elections and other tax-saving opportunities to take advantage of while preparing the return; plus, the tax planning roadmap highlights planning opportunities that you and your staff can pursue after busy season.

Partnerships are a “top priority” for the Small Business/Self-Employed (SB/SE) Division, according to the SB/SE Commissioner. With the key issues, examples, filled-in Schedule K-1s and other forms, checklists, worksheets, and other quality control tools you’ll find in PPC’s 1065 Deskbook, you and your staff can solve the difficult or unclear issues encountered when preparing Form 1065. The Deskbook points out elections and other tax-saving opportunities while preparing the return; plus, the tax planning roadmap highlights planning opportunities that you and your staff can pursue after busy season.

PPC’s 1040 Deskbook provides detailed, easy-to-understand, and affordable tax return focused guidance, complete with real-life examples and illustrations of filled-in forms, so owners and/or staff can quickly and easily resolve the key issues encountered when preparing individual tax returns. The Deskbook provides workflow guidance, tools and other practice aids that will save time, help ensure returns are accurately prepared, and enable owners and/or staff to identify potential tax planning opportunities for clients.

PPC's Guide to Tax Planning for High Income Individuals contains the strategies necessary to help your clients minimize the impact of higher tax rates and lower deductions and maximize the after-tax return on their investments. This Guide contains the detailed strategies you need to help clients minimize the impact of the 37% ordinary income and 20% capital gains rates. In addition, the Guide explains the 3.8% net investment income tax, additional 0.9% Medicare tax, and strategies necessary to limit your client's exposure to these taxes.

Because they are so flexible, partnerships are ideally suited for meeting a multitude of tax and business objectives. This flexibility comes with the price of complex rules that may apply to common transactions, such as contributing and distributing property and allocating income among the partners. PPC's Guide to Tax Planning: Partnerships walks you through these rules in plain English, with plenty of real-life examples to illustrate important concepts and practice aids to help you save time.

Everything you need to file Texas franchise (margin) tax returns and devise tax planning strategies throughout the year!

Based on the lifecycle of forming, operating, and disposing of a closely held corporation, PPC's Tax Planning Guide - Closely Held Corporations  addresses the issues that are encountered when responding to client questions or planning transactions, from forming and operating the corporation to planning a tax-favored reorganization or liquidation. It also addresses the related shareholder issues, such as removing income from the corporation in the most tax efficient manner; implementing a fringe benefit, deferred compensation, or qualified pension plan; or passing ownership on to family members, to name just a few.

PPC's Guide to Construction Contractor Taxation provides comprehensive “how to” guidance on the issues surrounding construction contractors. The guidance is designed to provide practical, thorough, and up-to-date guidance on the unique tax issues faced by contractors. Although IRS regulations and rulings are a complex maze in the area of construction contractors, this Guide's unique approach organizes and summarizes tax data in a manner that allows practitioners and industry accountants to easily understand basic concepts and retrieve relevant information without investing endless time in research.

Health care reform legislation has significantly altered the landscape for obtaining and providing health care benefits. PPC’s Guide to Health Care Reform provides practical easy-to-understand guidance on the key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Additionally, since Congress left much of the implementation to government agencies, it provides ongoing coverage of IRS, DOL, and HHS pronouncements to help you stay abreast of developments as they occur.