History of taxation and the legislative process -- Survey of the system -- Components of individual returns -- Elements of other returns -- Gross income -- Exclusions from gross income -- Deductions in general -- Depreciation -- Investment credit, amortization, and depletion -- Losses and bad debts -- Other deductions allowed whether business or personal -- sales and other dispositions of property -- Capital gains and losses, section 1231, and recapture -- Accounting perions cash method of a accounting and -- Claim of right -- Accrual method of accounting other accounting methods and -- Changes -- Deferred compensation -- Partnerships -- Corporations -- Gift and estate tax principles income taxation of trusts, -- Decedents, and estates

1. Income tax -- United States -- Law