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Continuing education for tax preparers is vitally important. Wholesale pricing is available for professional continuing education organizations that have a need for new and updated content in key areas of federal taxation.

Federal Tax Workbook

The University of Illinois Federal Tax Workbook is the “go to” tax reference used by tens of thousands of tax professionals across the country.

  • Written by tax preparers for tax preparers
  • New content written annually
  • Organized with multi-session CPE seminars in mind
  • Includes dozens of Practitioner Planning Tips
  • Digital and print formats available
  • Customizable covers available
  • The ordering deadline is August 26 each year for the printed workbook published and delivered in the fall. However, digital chapter licensing is available year-round.

Attractive wholesale pricing available!

Licensing individual chapters is also available.

2026 Federal Tax Workbook

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Workbook Chapters

Related-Party Issues
  • Limits on losses and deductions
  • Transactions between related persons and partnerships
  • Depreciation
  • Like-kind exchanges
  • Installment sales
Ethically Navigating Client Misconduct
  • Review and examples of various aspects of Circular 230
S Corporation Operations
  • Allocation of items to shareholders
  • Compensation issues
  • Retirement plans for shareholders
  • Basics of trusts as S corporation shareholders
  • Dealing with debt
  • Distributions
  • Reporting
Trust & Estate Issues
  • Revocable trusts
  • Trust & estate charitable deductions
  • Basis in gift property
  • Basis of inherited assets
  • Consistent basis reporting
  • Estate & gift tax on nonresident aliens
Individual Taxpayer Issues
  • Reverse mortgages
  • Charitable giving
  • Strategies for reducing capital gains
  • Foreign individual taxation
IRS Update
  • Penalty issues
  • IRS MATH Act
  • Dirty Dozen
  • Retirement of FIRE system
  • Business tax accounts
New Developments
  • Implementation of OBBBA (including Trump Accounts, tips, and overtime)
  • No mailbox rule
  • Genius Act
Rulings & Cases
  • Significant rulings and cases from August 2025 and beyond
Agricultural Issues & Rural Investments
  • IRCE §754 strategy
  • Holding period for raised heifers
  • Gifting farm equipment to a child
  • Retirement planning issues for farmers
Military & First Responders
  • Residency and filing classification
  • Income exclusions
  • Deductions
  • Retirement, disability, and survivor benefits
  • Employer tax credits
  • Estate and tax planning
  • Qualified state and local benefits
Small Business Issues
  • Employee tax issues
  • EBLs/NOLs
  • QBI refresher
Income Tax Implications of Equity Compensation
  • Equity compensation types, including incentive stock option, employee stock purchase plans, restricted stock awards and units, stock appreciation rights, phantom stokcs
  • Equity compensation life cycle
  • Planning considerations
Amending Returns
  • Amending individual returns
  • Amending C corporation returns
  • Amending S corporation returns
  • Amending partnership returns
  • Amending estate & trust returns
  • Amending gift tax returns

2025 Federal Tax Workbook By the Numbers

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The Illinois Tax Workbook is an excellent resource for tax practitioners with clients of all types

I have used the Workbook to teach from in numerous states for many years. It is easy to teach from, and attendees give the Workbook rave reviews for it’s to-the-point discussion of complex tax concepts and explanations of how those concepts can be utilized on behalf of clients with accompanying examples and IRS forms as helpful illustrations.

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