This student manual contains materials for a 20-session course in basic income tax preparation. Each session may include some or all of these components: a reading assignment, a vocabulary list, interview questions pertinent to that session's subject matter, informative/reference materials, problems to work out in class or at home, exercises, and tax returns. Topics covered are filing requirements, exemptions and deductions, gross income, itemized deductions, income tax computations, Oregon Tax Preparer Licensing Law, IRS Tax Practitioner Law, Oregon income tax, basis of assets, depreciation, supplemental income, profit and loss from business, self-employment tax, farm income and expenses, credits, capital gains and losses, sales and exchanges, supplemental gains and losses, personal residence sales, installment sales, other taxes and payments, examination of returns and appeal rights, and interview techniques. An appendix includes an extensive glossary; checklists of income and deductible and nondeductible items, investment credit, and energy credit; information for armed forces personnel, farmers, and older taxpayers; automobile expense deductions, losses, and adjusted gross income deductions; Oregon Income Tax Services Law and Code of Professional Conduct; information circulars; and the Oregon individual income tax guide (1981). (YLB)