This Blue Book prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on taxation in consultation with the staffs of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance, provides an explanation of tax legislation enacted in the 108th Congress. Officially titled, General Explanation of Tax Legislation Enacted in the 108th Congress (JCS-5-05), it is prepared so lawmakers, tax practitioners and other interested parties have explanations in one volume of the final tax legislation enacted during the 108th Congress.

The Joint Committee on Taxation's General Explanation of Tax Legislation, Enacted in the 108th Congress Blue Book 2005 contains descriptions of present law, prior law, and effective dates of the tax legislation enacted in the 108th Congress in chronological order as Signed into law. The included appendix provides the esternated badget effects of the tax legislation.