J.K. Lasser’s Your Income Tax 2012: for Preparing Your 2011 Tax Return
HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--John Wiley & Sons, Inc. – The most trusted tax guide ever written, this year’s edition, J.K. LASSER’S YOUR INCOME TAX 2012: FOR PREPARING YOUR 2011 TAX RETURN, is celebrating its 75th Year Anniversary! This year’s guide covers one of the most significant tax laws in nearly a decade in America – the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, an $858 billion dollar deal over two years, which includes tax cuts for millionaires and a Social Security payroll tax cut for all workers. In addition, J.K. LASSER’S YOUR INCOME TAX 2012 will guide individual taxpayers with the following:
What’s New on 2011 Returns
- Increased personal exemption, standard deduction amounts, and tax brackets
- Greater deduction for long-term care insurance premiums
- Revised tax credit for certain home energy improvements
- Increased IRS standard mileage rate for business, medical, and moving purposes
- Ability to partially annuitize commercial annuities without jeopardizing tax deferral
- Increased alternative minimum tax (AMT) exemption amount
- Increased earned income credit and adoption credit
- Higher phaseout of the retirement savers credit and the exclusion for interest on U.S. savings bonds redeemed for higher education purposes
- Larger exclusion for foreign earned income
- Broker reporting for the basis of securities simplifies gain or loss calculations
A current and authoritative handbook J.K. LASSER’S YOUR INCOME TAX 2012 is an indispensable asset for individual taxpayers, and tax professionals.
Please stay tuned for these exciting launches this Winter:
- a revamped, non-subscription based www.jklasser.com
- J.K. Lasser Facebook page
- J.K. Lasser YouTube Channel
J.K. LASSER’S YOUR INCOME TAX 2012:
For Preparing Your 2011 Tax Return
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Publication date: November 14, 2011
$22.95; Paperback; 848 pages; ISBN: 978-1-118-072547*also available in e-book format*
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J.K. LASSER’S 1001 DEDUCTIONS & TAX BREAKS 2012:
Your Complete Guide to Everything Deductible
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Publication date: November 14, 2011
$19.95; Paperback; 464 pages; ISBN: 978-1-118-07257-8
*also available in e-book format*
Answers the most common question in tax, "what can I deduct?" in easy to understand language. A must have book for every taxpayer.
J.K. LASSER’S SMALL BUSINESS TAXES 2012:
Your Complete Guide to a Better Bottom Line
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Publication date: November 14, 2011
$19.95; Paperback; 608 pages; ISBN: 978-1-118-07258-5
*also available in e-book format*
This book provides the tax facts, strategies, and latest up-to-date information that a small business owner needs to maximize deductions and reduce payments to the minimum.
ABOUT J.K. LASSER INSTITUTE:
J.K. Lasser Institute has been the premier publisher of consumer tax guides since 1939, when Jacob Kay Lasser first published Your Income Tax. Since then, the guide has been published continuously for over seventy years and read by over 39,000,000 people. The J.K. Lasser Institute also publishes several personal finance books, including Small Business Taxes, Home Owner's Tax Breaks, 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks, Year-Round Tax Planning, and more. J.K. Lasser Institute spokespeople are regularly sought after as media tax experts. They regularly appear on such broadcast programs as CNBC, CNN, and Bloomberg TV. They are also often featured in numerous periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Self Magazine, The New York Times, Newsweek and Reader's Digest.
ABOUT THE SPOKESPERSON:
Barbara Weltman, J.K. Lasser’s spokesperson, is an experienced media professional, ready to lend her expertise to print, online, and broadcast segments. Barbara was recently named among the List of 100 Small Business Influencers for 2011, among many other major honors. She also hosts the radio show “Build Your Business” on www.wsradio.com. She is a key member of the J.K. Lasser Institute team of editors & writers, and has contributed to dozens of best-selling business books.
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