Federal Taxation: Comprehensive Topics (2012)

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CCH's 2012 Federal Taxation: Comprehensive Topics is a popular teacher-created combination first- and second-level tax course that offers comprehensive one-volume coverage of all the most important tax concepts and principles for a solid grounding in federal taxation. It offers clear and concise explanation of fundamental tax concepts in the framework of today's tax practice. Covering both planning and compliance, the book strikes an effective balance between AICPA model curriculum demands and the favored approaches of the majority of today's top tax teachers. Federal Taxation: Comprehensive Topics (2012) is now available in an eBook format which you can download to your computer instantly.

CCH's Comprehensive Topics introduces students to the complex and absorbing study of federal taxation, covering a broad range of subjects beginning with basic concepts and individual taxation. Once the fundamentals are covered, tax accounting and the taxation of partnerships and corporations become the focus. The final section of the book presents estate and gift taxation coverage, along with income taxation of trusts and estates. Deferred compensation, education savings, international tax, and state and local taxation are also addressed.

Written by top tax teachers from across the country, CCH's Federal Taxation: Comprehensive Topics presents materials in straightforward language to improve student comprehension. Emphasis is given to the most important topics that have the greatest real-world impact.


Previous Editions: 2011, 2010

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Federal Taxation: Comprehensive Topics (2012)

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Comprehensive Topics provides 25 chapters and additional support materials as follows:

  • Chapter 1 Introduction to Federal Taxation and Understanding the Federal Tax Law
  • Chapter 2 Tax Research, Practice and Procedure
  • Chapter 3 Individual Taxation--An Overview
  • Chapter 4 Gross Income
  • Chapter 5 Gross Income--Exclusions
  • Chapter 6 Deductions: General Concepts and Trade or Business Deductions
  • Chapter 7 Deductions: Business/Investment Losses and Passive Activity Losses
  • Chapter 8 Deductions: Itemized Deductions
  • Chapter 9 Tax Credits, Prepayments, and Special Methods
  • Chapter 10 Property Transactions: Determination of Basis and Gains and Losses
  • Chapter 11 Property Transactions: Nonrecognition of Gains and Losses
  • Chapter 12 Property Transactions: Treatment of Capital and Section 1231 Assets
  • Chapter 13 Tax Accounting
  • Chapter 14 Taxation of Corporations--Basic Concepts
  • Chapter 15 Corporate Nonliquidating Distributions
  • Chapter 16 Corporate Distributions in Complete Liquidations
  • Chapter 17 Corporate Reorganizations
  • Chapter 18 Accumulated Earnings and Personal Holding Company Taxes
  • Chapter 19 Partnerships--Formation and Operation
  • Chapter 20 Partnerships--Distributions, Sales and Exchanges
  • Chapter 21 S Corporations
  • Chapter 22 Federal Estate Tax, Federal Gift Tax and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax
  • Chapter 23 Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates
  • Chapter 24 Deferred Compensation and Education Planning
  • Chapter 25 Multijurisdictional Taxation: International and State and Local Transactions
  • Appendix
  • Glossary of Tax Terms
  • Finding Lists
  • Table of Cases
  • Topical Index

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  • Ephraim P. Smith, Vice-President of Academic Affairs, California State University-Fullerton



  • James R. Hasselback, Ph.D., is a professor of accounting at Florida State University. He has published more than 145 papers in professional and academic journals; edits the journal, "Accounting Perspectives;" authors and edits several CCH books; teaches CPE seminars; and is known throughout the academic community for compiling the highly-regarded and highly-referenced Hasselback Directories of College and University Faculty.

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