Easy Ways to Lower Your Taxes: Simple Strategies Every Taxpayer Should Know (USA Today/Nolo Series)

Reduce your taxes with great tips in plain English.

While many tax books claim they can sharply reduce or eliminate your tax burden altogether, too often their dubious methods apply to nearly no one -- or their accounting schemes run the risk of drawing unwelcome IRS scrutiny. Easy Ways to Lower Your Taxes provides legitimate tactics and useful insights that can really lower your tax bill without running afoul of the IRS.

Learn more about tax planning:

Get a lower tax rate

Boost your tax-free income

Defer paying your taxes

Make the most of deductions

Take advantage of exemptions

Identify and use credits

Shift income to other taxpayers -- legally

Each rule is accompanied by excerpts, strategies, ideas, and real-world examples, plus information on retirement plans, home mortgages, student loans, charitable contributions, medical expenses, dependents -- even businesses that never get started! You'll save big with the simple strategies found in Easy Ways to Lower Your Taxes.