Introduction to tax strategy -- Tax law fundamentals -- Returns to alternative savings vehicles -- choosing the optimal organizational form -- Implicit taxes and clientels, arbitrage, restrictions, and frictions -- Nontax costs of tax planning -- The importance of marginal tax rates and dynamic tax-planning considerations -- Compensation planning -- Pension and retirement planning -- Multinational tax planning : introduciton and investment decisions -- Multinational tax planning: foreign tax credit limitations and income shifting -- Corporations: formation, operation, capital structure, and liquidation -- Introduction to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures -- Taxable acquisitions of freestanding Corporations -- Taxable acquisitions of S Corproations -- Tax-free acquisitions of freestanding C Corporations -- Tax planning for divestitures -- Estate and gift tax planning

1. Business enterprises -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States
2. Tax planning -- United States
3. Business enterprises -- Taxation
4. Tax planning