How to Pay Zero Taxes, 2017: Your Guide to Every Tax Break the IRS Allows, 34th Edition

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CHAPTER 1

Tax Insanity

CHAPTER 2

Is It Legal?

CHAPTER 3

How Our Tax System Works

CHAPTER 4

Exclusions—Tax-Free Money

A    Alternatives to “Earned Income”

1.  Hospitalization Premiums

2.  Group Life Insurance Premiums

3.  Group Legal Services Plans

4.  Accident and Health Plans

5.  Employee Death Benefits

6.  Merchandise Distributed to Employees on Holidays

7.  “Expenses of Your Employer”

8.  Meals and Lodgings

9.  Employee Discounts

10.  Workers’ Compensation

11.  “Cafeteria” Plans and Flexible Spending Accounts

12.  Dependent Care Assistance Program

13.  Employer Educational Assistance

14.  Employee Awards

15.  Clergy Housing Allowance

16.  Miscellaneous Fringe Benefits

B    Donative Items

17.  Gifts, Bequests, and ...