Book excerpt: This book will give you the tools to prepare some of the most common tax returns. As you read through each chapter, you will learn the tax laws, and see them in practice in examples. Throughout the book there are questions and tax problems for you to work out yourself because the best way to learn something is through practice. You can check your work by looking in the Appendix. There are two parts to this text. The first part will teach you to prepare a basic return while the second part will introduce some of the more involved aspects of taxation. Each chapter focuses on certain aspects and walks you through that aspect of the tax return step by step. By the time you finish this book you will be amazed at how easy it is to prepare a tax return!