Summary

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.