Form 1040 - Answers U.S. Individual Income Tax Return
Schedule 1 - Answers Additional Income and Adjustments to Income
Schedule 2 - Answers Tax
Schedule 3 - Answers Nonrefundable Credits
Schedule 4 - Answers Other Taxes
Schedule 5 - Answers Other Payments and Refundable Credits
Schedule A - Answers Itemized Deductions
Schedule B - Answers Interest and Ordinary Dividends
Schedule C - Answers Profit or Loss From Business
Schedule D - Answers Capital Gains and Losses
Form 8949 - Answers Sales and Other Dispositions of Capital Assets
Schedule E - Answers Supplemental Income and Loss
Schedule SE - Answers Self-Employment Tax
Form 1065 - Answers U.S. Return of Partnership Income
Schedule K-1 - Answers Partner's Share of Income, Deductions, Credits, etc.
Form 1120 - Answers U.S. Corporation Income Tax Return
Form 1120S - Answers U.S. Income Tax Return for an S Corporation
Schedule K-1 - Answers Shareholder's Share of Income, Deductions, Credits, etc.
Schedule M-3 - Answers Net Income (Loss) Reconciliation for Corporations
Form 706 - Answers United States Estate (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) Tax Return
Form 709 - Answers United States Gift (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) Tax Return
83(b) election - Answers a special tax election that employees who receive restricted stock or other
property with ownership restrictions can make to accelerate income recognition from the normal date
when restrictions lapse to the date when the restricted stock or other property is granted. The election
also accelerates the employer's compensation deduction related to the restricted stock or other
property.
, §162(m) limitation - Answers the $1 million deduction limit on nonperformance-based salary paid to
certain key executives.
§179 expense - Answers an incentive for small businesses that allows them to immediately expense a
certain amount of tangible personal property placed in service during the year.
§197 intangibles - Answers intangible assets that are purchased that must be amortized over 180
months regardless of their actual useful lives.
§291 depreciation recapture - Answers the portion of a corporate taxpayer's gain on real property that is
converted from §1231 gain to ordinary income.
§338 election - Answers an election by a corporate buyer of 80-percent-or-more of a corporation's stock
to treat the acquisition as an asset acquisition and not a stock acquisition.
§338(h)(10) election - Answers a joint election by the corporate buyer and corporate seller of the stock
of a subsidiary of the seller to treat the acquisition as a sale of the subsidiary's assets by the seller to the
buyer.
§481 adjustment - Answers a change to taxable income associated with a change in accounting
methods.
§1231 assets - Answers depreciable or real property used in a taxpayer's trade or business owned for
more than one year.
§1231 look-back rule - Answers a tax rule requiring taxpayers to treat current year net §1231 gains as
ordinary income when the taxpayer has deducted a §1231 loss as an ordinary loss in the five years
preceding the current tax year.
§1245 property - Answers tangible personal property and intangible property subject to cost recovery
deductions.
§1250 property - Answers real property subject to cost recovery deductions.
12-month rule - Answers regulation that allows prepaid business expenses to be currently deducted
when the contract does not extend beyond 12 months and the contract period does not extend beyond
the end of the tax year following the year of the payment.
30-day letter - Answers the IRS letter received after an audit that instructs the taxpayer that he or she
has 30 days to either (1) request a conference with an appeals officer or (2) agree to the proposed
adjustment.
90-day letter - Answers the IRS letter received after an audit and receipt of the 30-day letter that
explains that the taxpayer has 90 days to either (1) pay the proposed deficiency or (2) file a petition in
the U.S. Tax Court to hear the case. The 90-day letter is also known as the statutory notice of deficiency.