Investment Taxation: Practical Tax Strategies for Financial Instruments.

• Author: Fink, Philip R.
• Position: Brief Article - Book Review

Investment Taxation, by Arlene M. Hibschweiler and Marion Kopin (McGraw-Hill, 2004), provides financial professionals with a working knowledge of the myriad investment tax issues that affect their clients' investment portfolios. The work includes the tax treatment of stock dividends and distributions, bond interest and redemptions and options and warrants. It has a detailed discussion on passive activity losses and credits, the "at-risk" rules and the alternative minimum tax. The book explains...