Includes index.

Contents: Introduction -- A Perspective on the Clinton tax act -- Changes affecting all investors: Higher tax rates takes bigger bite -- Capital gains tax benefits are back -- The Alternative minimum tax tougher and more complex than ever -- Estate and gift taxes: It's harder to give your children what you've managed to keep -- Charitable giving it's harder to be nice -- Miscellaneous changes affecting investors -- Residential real estate investments: How residential real estate investment are affected -- Disaster relief: tax help for flood, hurricane and other damage -- Low-income housing credit: tax benefit for investing in residential real estate -- Commercial real estate investments are affected -- Passive loss rules-easier for some but not all -- Depreciation planning for commercial real estate -- Closely held business investments: How Clinton tax law affects business -- Special tax benefits for qualifying businesses -- Employee and health care costs -- Business depreciation deductions and tax credits -- Other types of investors: Senior citizens and retired investors -- Stock, bond and other investors and dealers -- Divorced investors -- Tax-exempt investors -- Glossary.