The Truth About Paying Fewer Taxes

The Truth About Series offers in each book the collected and distilled knowledge on a topic and shows you how you can use this knowledge in your daily life. With an aha on every page, information is presented in a clear and accessible style that the reader can easily reference. Written in short chapters, each book covers an entire field of knowledge, cuts to the gist of each subject in an entertaining way, and when necessary, pops the bubble of commonly held myths. Each Truth is a tool to make you more successful.The Truth About Paying Fewer Taxesoffers real solutions for one of today's toughest personal finance problems: high taxes! In 70 bite-sized truths, you'll learn how to create a long-term tax plan that could save you hundreds of thousands of dollars over your lifetime. You'll learn how to leverage the tax opportunities associated with the key milestones in your life, from new children to estate planning...make the tax laws work for you, not against you...leverage effective tax planning strategies without hiring professional help...maximize the tax benefits of home ownership, childcare, investing, retirement planning, and unemployment...avoid or mitigate the cost of the AMT and self-employment taxes...make timely financial decisions that reduce your taxes for years to come! This is not a how to fill out the forms book: it's a strategic guidebook for integrating tax realities into your financial planning - and saving yourself a fortune!

S. Kay Bell has been writing about taxes for a decade, but following the subject–as a taxpayer, journalist, Congressional staff member, and government relations specialist–for most of her journalism career. After two decades in Washington, DC, including stints on Capitol Hill and with two major multinational corporations, she helped launch the tax channel at the popular personal finance website, Bankrate.com. She still writes for Bankrate, including the site’s tax blog, Eye on the IRS.

 

In addition, Bell posts daily at her own personal finance blog, Don’t Mess with Taxes, where The Wall Street Journal praised her ability to effectively put her personal finance advice in a social or historical context. Her writing also appears in numerous mass-circulation publications and websites, including USAToday.com, TheStreet.com, MarketWatch.com, and AOL.com, and she is regularly interviewed by media outlets ranging from National Public Radio’s “Marketplace” to Yahoo’s “Generation Debt.”