LibraryAware Tax & Legal Help 10/2023

Tax Resources

Real Estate Investing All-in-One
by Ray Brown

Real Estate Investing All-in-One For Dummies will show new and seasoned real estate investors how to make smart decisions. With seven books in one, this complete resource will teach you how to purchase real estate, flip houses, invest in commercial real-estate and foreclosures, sell your house, buy real estate internationally, and more. We even explain the ins and outs of short-term rentals like Airbnb, so all your passive income options are covered. With this book, you can start investing in real estate quickly and easily, thanks to user-friendly information and expert tips that will help you avoid costly mistakes. It's your one-stop resource for all things real estate.

From Savvy Saver to Smart Spender : How to Pick a Tax-wise Retirement Withdrawal Strategy
by Daniel W. Mcdonald

You may have spent years saving for retirement. But have you thought of the best way to use the money you saved? How you withdraw from your IRA, 401(k), and other accounts can have a major impact on how much you will pay in federal income taxes during retirement. This book shows how to develop your own tax-wise withdrawal strategy.

Investing in Stocks
by Paul Mladjenovic

Investing in Stocks For Dummies gives you a straightforward introduction to stock investing. You'll learn the basics of buying and selling stocks, including how to research stocks and the factors that influence their performance. Even in an uncertain and challenging marketplace, you can profit by making smart financial decisions and investing wisely. This book explains how to calculate net worth, deal with tax laws, and do all the things that will make you a successful investor. This Dummies guide is packed with clear instructions and solid advice so you can start investing with confidence. Learn how to choose the best stocks for your goals and create a diverse portfolio. Understand the risks involved in stock investing and choose a strategy that works. Navigate the market's ups and downs with time-tested techniques. Plan for your financial future and invest according to your timeline. The expert info in this book will start you off on the right foot as you begin your journey down Wall Street

Wealth Without Cash : Supercharge Your Real Estate Investing With Subject-to, Seller Financing, and Other Creative Deals
by Pace Morby

"Whether you're just getting started as an investor or already have a real estate business, this book will fully prepare you to find off-market leads, uncover sellers' motivations, negotiate with confidence, close more deals, build a team, and much more.Wealth without Cash has everything you need to become a millionaire investor without utilizing your own capital. In this book, you will: Learn how to build a portfolio of off-market deals without using your cash. Discover proven scripts that will convince both motivated and uncertain sellers. Understand the most common seller objections and how to overcome them with win-win scenarios. Identify your strengths and build a team to support your needs. Shift your mindset to fuel your creative finance journey. Gain the confidence to tackle entity structuring, taxes, paperwork, and legal concerns like the due-on-sale clause"

The New Bankruptcy : Will It Work for You?
by Cara O'neill

You know bankruptcy will help you get back on your financial feet. But which chapter type is best? The New Bankruptcy explains the benefits of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy

Estate Planning
by Jordan S. Simon

Estate Planning For Dummies teaches you the ins and outs of estate planning. This everyone-friendly guide walks you through building a solid estate plan, whatever your current financial situation. In easy-to-understand language, you'll learn the ins and outs of estate planning, including what happens to your stuff--cash, real estate, businesses, retirement funds, everything--when you pass away. This new edition is updated for the many recent changes in estate taxes and inheritance law.

Smart Money Strategy : Your Ultimate Guide to Financial Planning
by Luke Smith

Do you want to learn and apply the strategies that experts use to grow and protect wealth? In Smart Money Strategy, popular financial planner Luke Smith comprehensively reveals the principles, methods and tactics that real financial planners use with their clients. Smart Money Strategy will help you to define your priorities and create a personalized, actionable plan to achieve your goals.

Taxes for Dummies 2024
by Eric Tyson

Taxes For Dummies is the antidote to the annual headache that is the U.S. tax system. This book paves the way for you to file a return that maximizes all the deductions and credits available to you. It also provides insight on making smart financial decisions that help minimize your tax burden. Need to correct or revise a return? You’ll find all the information you need to do it right this time. And, of course the A-word is covered―learn what to do if the IRS shows up on your doorstep to audit your return. This new edition provides updates on the latest changes to the U.S. tax system, so you can sail through this year’s tax season, headache free.

J.k. Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2024 : Your Complete Guide to Everything Deductible
by Barbara Weltman

Save money--legally--on your 2023-24 taxes with simple, expert advice from a trusted source In the newest edition of J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2024: Your Complete Guide to Everything Deductible, expert small business tax lawyer Barbara Weltman walks you through every relevant tax deduction and credit you're entitled to claim on your 2023 tax return as well as new breaks for 2024. You'll find countless money-saving opportunities and ensure you don't overpay on your taxes, giving Uncle Sam exactly what you're legally required to give him--and not a penny more.

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Entrepreneurship
by Kathleen R. Allen

This guide helps new business owners and entrepreneurs understand the process of starting a business, how to meet legal requirements and build the foundation to keep businesses thriving and growing.

No Choice : The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and The Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right
by Becca Andrews

Taking us to the states and communities hardest-hit by Roe v. Wade reversal, this important book tells the stories of those most at risk, but also profiles the people who are doing groundbreaking, inspiring work to ensure safe, legal access to the fundamental part of health care.

More Than Marriage : Forming Families After Marriage Equality
by John G. Culhane

John Culhane offers a comprehensive approach to satisfying the needs of this vast population of unmarried adults. Using a narrative approach that resulted from in-depth interviews, he gives voice to the many couples inadequately served by existing law. Their stories provide living evidence of the need for the law to extend its reach to those who are inadequately protected-or not protected at all.

Working For Yourself : Law & Taxes For Independent Contractors, Freelancers & Gig Workers of All Types
by Stephen Fishman

This excellent resource provides all of the essential information and strategies for successfully starting and running your own business.

The Trial of the Century
by Gregg Jarrett

Meticulously researched, this riveting and comprehensive history of the famed liberal attorney Clarence Darrow who defended John Scopes in a blockbuster legal proceeding that caught the attention of the nation calls upon our past to unite Americans in the defense of the free exchange of ideas, especially in this divided time.

Clean Up Your Credit : A Black Ops Guide to Credit Repair and Restoration
by Robert J. Mansfield

This book introduces a step-by-step credit repair system, actual documents the author used to settle suits, and legal cases filed in federal courts against major credit bureaus. These are the credit repair secrets they really don't want to you to know, from someone who successfully challenged the credit reporting industry.

Gay Fathers, Twin Sons : The Citizenship Case That Captured the World
by Nancy L. Segal

Gay Fathers, Twin Sons follows the story of Andrew from the United States and Elad from Israel, who married in Canada where same-sex marriage was permitted, and details their struggle to then immigrate back to the United States with their biological twin sons.

Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business : 65 Essential Agreements, Contracts, Leases & Letters
by Fred S. Steingold

All the essential forms and step-by-step instructions a small business owner needs to start and run a business!

Getting Permission : Using & Licensing Copyright-Protected Materials Online & Off
by Richard Stim

Completely updated with all the latest rules and laws, this all-in-one guide explains how copyright protection works, when copyright rules might not apply, and how to get permission to use someone elses material in your own work.

Essential Supreme Court Decisions : Summaries of Leading Cases in U.S. Constitutional Law
by John R. Vile

The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers understand how cases fit into a historical context. Updated through the end of the 2021 Supreme Court session, this book remains and indispensable resource for undergraduate and law school students, lawyers, and everyone interested in our nation's laws and Constitution.

The Supermajority : How the Supreme Court Divided America
by Michael Waldman

The president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law presents an incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court's new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and its implications for American society as the country is being lead in a dangerous political direction.