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About Column
These articles, selected from A.J. Cook's column, are entertaining, educational and readable. His expertise as a tax lawyer-CPA makes them a reliable tax guide.
These are true-to-life reports on affairs of taxpayers and tax dodgers from thousands of IRS cases which Cook reviews.
He reports ever-changing tax pictures for lifestyles of most readers...and for lifestyles they dream about. There are tips on year-round tax planning to build wealth for the lowest-bracket taxpayers on up.
A Discovery in Journalism. From the thousands of tax court cases, he selects those with color and human interest. After he converts the legal jargon into readable prose, the case becomes a graphic anecdote illustrating complex technical laws.
Other tax columns are so dense with details, readers cannot absorb the rules. Cook breaks up the density with people stories.
These cases show readers what they can do legally by learning what others have tried. No one else reports these cases for newspapers.
A Writer Who's Qualified. Cook, now practicing as a tax lawyer, was formerly with the big-five CPA firm Ernst & Young as a partner in charge of tax services. He started writing the column in 1983. It is published in newspapers throughout the U.S.