See also the Checkpoint Tax Preparer package, which includes the online version of this PPC deskbook

Complete Individual Tax Return Guide for tax and accounting professionals

PPC’s 1040 Deskbook provides detailed, easy-to-understand, and affordable tax return focused guidance, complete with real-life examples and illustrations of filled-in forms, so owners and/or staff can quickly and easily resolve the key issues encountered when preparing individual tax returns. The Deskbook provides workflow guidance, tools and other practice aids that will save time, help ensure returns are accurately prepared, and enable owners and/or staff to identify potential tax planning opportunities for clients.

This Deskbook provides the practical, how-to guidance needed for preparing Form 1040 by any level of preparer. It identifies the key issues and covers the complex, unusual topics with workable solutions, examples, filled-in forms, and practice aids to resolve these issues in a timely, efficient manner. The Deskbook contains a unique Quick Reference Binder containing numerous tables, elections, worksheets, checklists, flowcharts, and other tools that place important information at the return preparer’s fingertips to save valuable time. It also includes a Roadmap to help identify individual tax planning engagements by simply reviewing a completed Form 1040 tax return.

Our editorial staff constantly monitors legislative, judicial, and administrative developments to provide the most comprehensive tax return preparation guidance. We also enlist the services of respected practitioners and other experts to assist our editors in making this Deskbook as complete and useful as possible.