Clients are filing 2016 returns through April 15 on the eve of massive tax cuts, making this the most important tax-filing seasons in 30 years.

To advise on investments, retirement income, insurance, financial planners and investment advisors -- even if you do not prepare returns -- need to know how to fill in and utilize an individual's Form 1040.

At this 100-minute session, Robert Keebler, CPA/PFS, an educator of legal and accounting professionals for over three decades, shares everything a financial advisor must know about taxes for the 2017 tax-filing season, including:

• Wage, interest, & dividend taxation
• Capital gains & losses
• Business income or loss
• Retirement saving incentives
• Income and loss from real estate and partnerships
• Social security taxation
• Educator expenses, HSAs, & Moving expenses
• Student loan interest & tuition deductions
• Standard & itemized deductions
• Dependency & exemptions
• Computing tax due & understanding the AMT
• Education, retirement savings, child, and energy tax credits
• Self-employment tax
• Early distributions from retirement plans
• NIIT & Additional Medicare tax

Robert S. Keebler, CPA/PFS, MST, AEP (Distinguished), CGMA, is a partner at Keebler & Associates. Bob has been named by CPA Magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Practitioners and one of the Top 40 Tax Advisors to Know During a Recession. His three-decades as an educator of tax professionals makes him a once-in-a generation figure in the leadership of the accounting profession.