Strategic Business Tax Planning, Second Edition is the definitive handbook on business tax planning, skipping the unnecessary and minute taxation details and focusing instead on the big picture in taxes. Organized around business processes, this reader-friendly guide shows you how to optimally put tax management principles to work in your business.

Strategic Business Tax Planning, Second Edition is the definitive handbook on business tax planning, skipping the unnecessary and minute taxation details and focusing instead on the big picture in taxes. Organized around business processes, this reader-friendly guide shows you how to optimally put tax management principles to work in your business.

About The Authors.Acknowledgments.Introduction.PART 1: STRATEGIC TAX PLANNING.Chapter 1. A Framework for Understanding Taxes.Chapter 2. Using the SAVANT Framework to Guide Tax Planning.PART 2: FORMING THE ENTERPRISE.Chapter 3. Choosing a Legal Entity: Risk Management, RaisingCapital, and Tax Management.Chapter 4. Financing a New Venture.PART 3: OPERATING THE FIRM.Chapter 5. New Products: Development, Promotion, andAdvertising.Chapter 6. Attracting and Motivating Employees and Managers:Company and Employee Tax Planning.Chapter 7. Market Penetration: Operating in DifferentStates.Chapter 8. Market Penetration: Company and Employee Tax Planningfor Operating in Foreign Countries.Chapter 9. Operations Management.Chapter 10. Financing Ongoing Operations and Tax Planning.Chapter 11. Capital Budgeting.Chapter 12. Financial Statement Analysis and Proactive TaxPlanning.PART 4: CHANGING ORIGINAL FORM..Chapter 13. Restructuring.Chapter 14. Mergers and Acquisitions.Chapter 15. Other Topics in Changing Original Form.Appendix A: Basic Tax Research Skills.Appendix B: Present Value Analysis: Lump Sums.Index.