Books

Kelly is the author of Ask the TaxGirl: Everything Parents Should Know About Filing Taxes (Including Child Care Expenses, Medical Costs, and the Earned Income Tax Credit), published together with Forbes through Hyperink.

Inside this book, you’ll get the skinny on the basics like filing status, claiming dependents, and determining exemptions. You’ll also find helpful information about how to deduct expenses associated with raising kids, including the costs of medical care and child care. Kelly tackles a number of tricky credits and deductions including the ever popular, and much maligned, earned income tax credit.

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Kelly has authored a chapter for the law practice book, Estate Planning in Pennsylvania, 2012 Edition (Pennsylvania Bar Institute). Whether you are handling your first or your hundredth estate planning matter, Estate Planning in Pennsylvania gives you the practical, real-world information needed for planning and drafting documents. This book takes you from the initial stage of interviewing the client to terminating representation and discusses a myriad of estate planning issues that crop up in between.

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Kelly has authored a chapter for the book, Careers in Tax Law: Perspectives on the Tax Profession and What It Holds for You (ABA, 2009). Designed for those considering or beginning a career in tax law, this informative guide presents a series of offerings — autobiographies in miniature — by a broad cross section of working tax professionals. Each contribution stands as a unique story of paths taken, choices made, and lessons learned. Each adds to a composite portrait of the profession and its possibilities for the next generation of tax lawyers.