Best tax law books according to redditors

We found 60 Reddit comments discussing the best tax law books. We ranked the 27 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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u/Abstrct · 5 pointsr/litecoin

Relevant: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116



Excellent book to help plan beyond just your own access to your hard hodl’d funds.

u/jlars221 · 4 pointsr/BitcoinBeginners

I really like Andreas antonopoulos’ The Internet of Money Series. I support him on patreon too and have learned a ton there. https://www.patreon.com/aantonop
Jimmy Song’s programming bitcoin just came out and is good!
I also used Pamela Morgan’s cryptoasset inheritance planning to make sure my crypto is secure and my family will get it if something happens to me.

u/thesmokecameout · 3 pointsr/Bitcoin

There is a book, "Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning", by Pamela Morgan.

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116

You have to take into account both the security issues AND the legal issues. Whether you like it or not, your government's inheritance laws will affect how you pass on your assets.

If you have any substantial amount of crypto, you should discuss estate planning with an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.

u/tlztlz · 3 pointsr/Bitcoin

DON'T PUT YOUR PIN ONLINE! NEVER
https://youtu.be/W3XADagE6P8

Splitting half is really a bad idea. The chance that you loosing one is high risk. If a robbery occur hackers can brute force the rest of the words in weeks.

Keep your words in a bank account is the worst. They can get seized and stolen. Not your keys not your money. And you just give them away. Keep your seed safe in multiple places.
https://medium.com/@lopp/metal-bitcoin-seed-storage-stress-test-part-ii-d309e04aefeb

Read and execute Crypto inheritance planing. https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116

u/mrniceguy303 · 3 pointsr/taxpros

We are using this book for the main textbook in my partnership class this summer. I would also recommend reading "The Logic of Subchapter K" which is a short book meant to help explain these often confusing concepts.

u/ajisai · 3 pointsr/LawSchool

If you can, buy the barbri course for 2Ls and watch the income tax course. It's super basic and will give you the gist of the concepts.


I second Chirelstein. When something in class didn't make sense, I referenced it. It's super cheap.

https://www.amazon.com/Federal-Income-Taxation-Concepts-Insights/dp/1599419378

Keep in mind, this will be income tax. There are other tax bases, like the consumption tax, the estate tax, etc.

The hardest part is reading the internal revenue code. Just note that the rules start out with a general rule at the top, then go into exceptions to the general rule. Of course, the whole point of the code is to know what is taxed as income, and what is not. Then you go on to figure out what is deductible or not. And at the end, there are credits. These are all the questions that show up on your 1040 form.


I remember learning that there are basically four questions you ask in (income) tax:


What is taxable (what is taxable income + out of that income, what is deductible)

When it is taxable (when is the gain realized, the later the better)

How is it taxed (what rate, ordinary rate or at the better capital gains rate)

Whom is taxed (matters when a transaction looks like someone is shifting income to a lower tax bracket)

u/ayrnieu · 3 pointsr/politics

What's more, if you're in a great hurry to verify that the pages in these books have actual words on them, you can (with an unfortunate exception) download them. Also by that link, and as a more compact sample: The Government's Magic Bond.

And: he wrote the forward to Minns' How To Survive the IRS

u/adrhenum · 2 pointsr/LawSchool

Chirelstein's Federal Income Taxation Supplement is really helpful. He manages to cram a lot of great information into a very approachable book.

u/knightswatch_ · 2 pointsr/CoinBase

Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning: A Simple Guide for Owners https://smile.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116/

u/NDHoosier · 2 pointsr/WGU

There is no such thing as digesting this class quickly and painlessly. This is one of the "Big Four" suck-o-matic courses in the Accounting curriculum.

That said, if you need some outside resources, here are ones I used.

Quick note: for S-corporations, equity and debt basis are separate; in case of a loss, equity basis is depleted FIRST; when that is zero, you can deplete debt basis. For partnerships, there is no difference between equity and debt basis.

The Essentials of Corporate Taxation: https://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Taxation-Essentials-Study-Guides-ebook/dp/B00B2S5MSE/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me= (If you only get one of these, get this one.)

Tax Guide for Partnerships: https://www.amazon.com/Tax-Guide-Partnerships-2016-Bible-ebook/dp/B019R2DL3O/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1497360244&sr=1-1&keywords=Tax+Guide+for+Partnerships (This one is poorly formatted and can be difficult to read)

Federal Income Taxation of Partners and Partnerships in a Nutshell: https://www.amazon.com/Taxation-Partners-Partnerships-Nutshell-Nutshells-ebook/dp/B01MRWOT6R/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=

Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Stockholders in a Nutshell: https://www.amazon.com/Federal-Taxation-Corporations-Stockholders-Nutshell-ebook/dp/B00SNCLU8S/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1497360450&sr=1-1&keywords=federal+income+taxation+of+corporations+in+a+nutshell

u/Dimitris-T · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

Here is a book https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116 and some articles https://medium.com/@pamelawjd by Pamela Morgan on cryptoasset inheritance planning.

u/Afternoonlazyness · 1 pointr/LawSchool
u/jyjd · 1 pointr/LawSchool

Our professor gives us "assessments" and one of them was on RAP. I used this and it explained it pretty well.

I'm sure your library has it, but yeah I would say just grab all the books you can at the library and just dive right in.

u/tweettranscriberbot · 1 pointr/BitcoinAll

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u/BitterJD · 1 pointr/explainlikeimfive

I am a JD/MBA from a T14 law school with several years of practice experience. Your ad hominem attacks are far too typical of the Reddit community in general -- which prompted my username. I am a bitter JD [juris doctor] because any and all attempts of offering sound legal advice on the Internet are greeted with entrenched ignorance from people who have no idea what they are talking about.

"You don't understand how itemized deductions work, they either qualify or they don't. Accountants don't have some secret knowledge of what does or doesn't trigger an audit."

This is patently false. The thing about the Internal Revenue Code is it is intentionally vague. Businesses and the affluent who lobby Congress invest millions annually preserving said vagueness for the sole reason of saving money through loopholes and embraced utilized ambiguity in the event of an audit so as too avoid liability.

When I first studied federal income tax, I had to effectively memorize this 2.2 lbs, 777 page case book on tax loopholes and exceptions.

Consider 26 USC 213 (d) -- the medical care itemized deduction.

"(d) Definitions
For purposes of this section—
(1) The term “medical care” means amounts paid—
(A) for the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or for the purpose of affecting any structure or function of the body,
(B) for transportation primarily for and essential to medical care referred to in subparagraph (A),
(C) for qualified long-term care services (as defined in section 7702B (c)), or
(D) for insurance (including amounts paid as premiums under part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act, relating to supplementary medical insurance for the aged) covering medical care referred to in subparagraphs (A) and (B) or for any qualified long-term care insurance contract (as defined in section 7702B (b))."

Assume an individual gets weekly therapeutic massages amounting to several thousand dollars per annum. Are these a deduction under the aforementioned code section? What does it mean to "affect any structure or function of the body?" These are rhetorical questions, if it is not obvious.

Anyhow, this demonstrates that you are objectively wrong with regard to itemized deductions "either qualify[ing] or they don't." Lawyers and accountants help with the ambiguity.

If your next response isn't an apology, I am done speaking with you. I work 100 hour weeks, and quite frankly trying to help you is going to unnecessarily elevate my blood pressure.

EDIT: Just realized I'm talking to someone who unethically took government subsidized education loans and invested in a quasi-legal digital currency in which he doesn't think is taxable. My goodness.

u/pamelawjd · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

I've been working on these issues for a few years now and I've published a book: Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning: a simple guide for owners. It's available all around the world on amazon in paperback, kindle, and soon audiobook. https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116/

I've also published a bunch of free how-to guides that might interest you: http://medium.com/@pamelawjd or https://empoweredlaw.com/

Hope this helps!

u/TheGreatMuffin · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

I haven't read it, but seeing this book mentioned in a very positive light in the bitcoin space, which might be helpful: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116/

u/Vaultoro_official · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

Pamela Morgan wrote a fantastic book about crypto inheritance planning. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1947910116/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_1947910116

We interviewed her on The Tatiana show that I co host. List of good tips and an important subject that most don't think about.
https://youtu.be/yAE7zrIJVhA

u/sippinmuscato · 1 pointr/Accounting

I used this review. I passed all 3 exams the first time, so feel like it helped. I did not have any previous tax experience.

Also, this might be a better question for /r/taxpros

u/ImTheDerek · 1 pointr/Accounting

I don't know about videos but this is one the textbooks my class used. Its a plain English explanation of everything and helped me big time.

At what level is this class being taught? Partnership is considered the hardest class in my mTax program and missing more than one or two classes would have basically been a death sentence even with an accounting background.

u/amicableuser · 1 pointr/slavelabour

Looking for these two books, $5 each pp or venmo

Gerry W. Beyer
Examples & Explanations: Wills Trusts & Estates
6th Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1454850052, ISBN-10: 1454850051
https://www.amazon.com/Examples-Explanations-Wills-Trusts-Estates/dp/1454850051/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509985796&sr=1-1&keywords=wills+and+estates+e+and+e


Peter Wendel
Emanuel Law Outlines: Wills, Trusts, and Estates Keyed to Dukeminier and Sitkoff
9th Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1454830320, ISBN-10: 1454830328
https://www.amazon.com/Emanuel-Law-Outlines-Estates-Dukeminier/dp/1454830328/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509985796&sr=1-2&keywords=wills+and+estates+e+and+e

u/kmdr · 1 pointr/btc

Not if you are thinking of putting your private keys in a gmail account.

Maybe, if you are thinking of this as a part of a more comprehensive system.

But again, not if this could be a single point of failure, like in "google changes their policy because of some reason, and your plan is screwed"

If you are interested in planning this, kudos to you!

I suggest this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116/

The author has several interesting articles, for example here:

https://medium.com/@pamelawjd

u/Southpawtn · 1 pointr/LawSchool
u/JPLawTx · 1 pointr/LawSchool

What textbook are you using?
My current Income Tax class is using " Graetz & Schenk, “Federal Income Taxation — Principles and Policy,” 8th Edition, Foundation Press (2018)"

I would HIGHLY recommend : Federal Income Taxation (Concepts and Insights) 14th Edition
This supplement reflects the 2017 changes in the tax code and follows the Graetz textbook very closely. I prefer E&E's generally but given my Fed Income tax course focuses heavily on the 2017 changes, this is best supplement currently available. =) Hope the recommendation helps!

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u/Anonazon2 · 0 pointsr/politics

Hahahah. Yeah, sorry I don't have time to open "the tax book" and learn the tax code so I can take advantage loopholes. Especially when it takes entire firms to apply it correctly.

u/CuilRunnings · -2 pointsr/politics

This article details how the IRS operates in violation of the 4th Amendment. This book details how the amendment was corrupted even further from its intentions. This research details the problems that plagued the ratification process. Sociopaths will do anything in their ability to centralize power and pervert it to their will... the Constitution is no exception.