Tax Season Resources Now Available – Tax Saving Tips for 2008
Members now have access to a brochure, speech and PowerPoint presentation that can help prepare clients for the 2008 tax season. Use these resources, which are included in the CPA Marketing Tool Kit, to promote your practice and/or services, and raise your firm’s visibility in the community.

Tax Saving Tips for 2008 features the latest tax-savings strategies on the most important tax topics, including:

• Filing Basics: filing status, exemptions and common deductions;
• Children and Education: enhanced child tax credit, adoption credit, dependent care credit, education tax credits, earned income credit and 529 plans;
• Homeowners: interest and property taxes, and capital gains;
• Investors: long-term capital gains and dividends, offsetting capital gains with losses, and “kiddie tax” rules;
• Retirement: 401(k)s and IRAs;
• Business Owners: section 179 deduction, operating losses and estimated taxes; and

Other Provisions: new energy tax incentives, disaster area tax relief, extended mortgage foreclosure tax relief and the latest on the AMT exemption.

The Tax Saving Tips for 2008 brochure is available in four-color, and in both high and low resolutions. Instructions for printing the brochure on legal-sized and 11 x 17 paper and suggestions on how to use the brochure are included in the tool kit. Also, space is provided on the back panel for you to imprint their firm names, logo and contact information.

In addition to the brochure, a comprehensive speech and PowerPoint presentation address specific tax-law changes and provisions to help your clients minimize their taxes. When printing the PowerPoint, select your printing option as “color” in the print dialog box, even if you are printing to a black-ink printer.