Chapter 1: The Government Raises Money: Introduction to Some Basic Concepts of Taxes and Taxing Income -- Chapter 2: What Is Gross Income: Section 61 and the Sixteenth Amendment -- Chapter 3: Exclusions from Gross Income -- Chapter 4: Loans and Cancellation of Indebtedness -- Chapter 5: Progressivity and Assignment of Income -- Chapter 6: Deductions: Business Expenses -- Chapter 7: Personal Deductions and the Standard Deduction -- Chapter 8: Tax Consequences of Divorce and Intra-Family Transactions -- Chapter 9: Timing of Income and Deductions: Annual Accounting and Accounting Principles -- Chapter 10: Character of Income and Computation of Tax
Summary
This book is the 8th edition of a basic income tax text. This edition incorporates the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. It is intended to be a readable text, suitable for a three-hour course for a class comprised of law students with widely different backgrounds. The text integrates several of the CALI drills that Professor James Edward Maule (Villanova University) prepared
