Privacy Policy and Legal Notices

Legal stuff.

Privacy Policy

We don't collect information about visitors to our site (except on a mass, statistical basis). We don't use cookies except to facilitate your use of our message board. If you send us email, or place your email address in a message on our message board, we may use your email address to contact you but we won't make your email address available to others. (Of course, we can't prevent others from "harvesting" email addresses from our message board, if you choose to place it there.)

No Professional Advice

This web site provides information, not professional advice. Here's the official version of this disclaimer:

This web site is a publication of Fairmark Press Inc. It is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. In publishing this web site, neither the author nor the publisher is engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought.

Additional Disclaimers

We had to simplify things. Tax law is complicated. It's impossible to describe every rule or exception that may apply to every person. To help move things along, we've generally assumed the following:

• You're a living, breathing person, and not a corporation, partnership, trust or other entity.
• You're a citizen of the United States, or considered a resident of the United States for tax purposes.
• You don't usually pay alternative minimum tax.
• Except when we talk about trader taxation in our Tax Guide for Traders, we assume that in connection with your financial affairs you're considered an investor, and not a trader or a dealer.

Federal tax info only. Except where indicated, we don't describe rules for taxes other than United States federal income tax. Rules of state, local and foreign (non-United States) taxation, as well as rules of United States federal taxes other than the income tax, may be of importance.

No investment advice. In addition, except where indicated, we don't describe non-tax considerations such as appropriate investment strategies. We may point out favorable tax consequences of transactions without describing important non-tax reasons for caution in pursuing such transactions.

We try to keep up. The tax law changes constantly. Neither the author nor the publisher undertakes any responsibility to amend this web site to reflect changes in the law.

Trademarks and Copyrights

All material © Copyright 1997-2007, Kaye A. Thomas. All rights reserved. This material is for personal use only. Republication and dissemination, including posting to news groups (other than brief quotations with appropriate attribution), is expressly prohibited without prior written consent.

The Fairmark Press logo, "fairmark.com" and "The Internet's Plain Language Tax Guide" are trademarks of Fairmark Press Inc.

Contacting Us

We welcome comments and questions, but can't promise to answer questions concerning tax laws or their application to particular situations. For more on our email policies, see Contact Fairmark Press.