Discussion:Where do you access Research Reference Materials?
From TaxAlmanac
Discussion Forum Index --> Tax Questions --> Where do you access Research Reference Materials?
| 26 April 2006 | |
| I have a question for the TaxAlmanac Community...
| |
| 26 April 2006 | |
| Codes and regs are available several places on line for free and IRS.GOV is a good free website for IRS publications, forms, instuctions etc. Many of the state tax agencies have decent webites also. Online research that I pay for includes Practitioners Publishing Company which has good federal analysis and Codes & Regs. I also use Spidell for California tax research. | |
| 26 April 2006 | |
| My company pays for online Kleinrock, online and paper BNA portfolios, online BNA Daily Tax Report, RIA's Checkpoint online service - federal, all states, various treatises (e.g., passive, AMT, tax accounting, etc.), Federal Tax Coordinator, Federal Tax Handbook, virtually all court cases, etc.
| |
| 27 April 2006 | |
| Tdoyle, I subscribe to CCH, BNA, RIA, PPC, Mertens, and Westlaw, and I still find myself at a loss from time to time. Yes, I find myself driving to the County Law Library quite frequently.
I applaud Intuit for publishing what appears to be the only free online versions of the code and regs, which, incidentally appear to be completely up to date. | |
| 27 April 2006 | |
| Jake - you're on it - http://www.taxalmanac.org. To view the Internal Revenue Code, simply click on the TaxAlmanac logo in the upper left-hand corner to get to the main page, then select Code from the white tabbed bar near the upper part of that page. Select Regs to get to the Treasury Regulations.
| |
| 27 April 2006 | |
| I used/tried several items this year. CCH MTG and CCH California Guidebook. CCH 1040 Express answers, as well as TheTaxBook, created by some of the former authors of Quickfinder. I also tried two online programs, CCH Essentials and RIA Checkpoint. All resources were benefical at times. I think I found the RIA program to be the most useful. | |
Mtmckeecpa (talk|edits) said: | 27 April 2006 |
| I use PPC (practioners publishing company). Desktop for 1040, 1120, 1120s, 1065, 1041 and their retirement/employer/employee benefits modules, plus their weekly tax action bullentins.
I use Quickfinders for my desk, I have not used MTG (master tax guide) for a long time. | |
| 27 April 2006 | |
| I occasionally to the local county or federal law library to use sources beyond the CCH Fed Tax Service, BNA and PPC's works. I also have various handbooks and specialized books and texts sitting around. | |
| 27 April 2006 | |
| I use CFS (www.taxtools.com) which I find quite affordable, and it has a pretty powerful search feature. One year they joined up with Gear-Up and it was really something I would buy every year, plenty of English explanantion and analysis, worksheets, etc. Can't wait until they come back to that. Of course if I had the money, I'd go for the BNA. And my Paychex guy not only brings me chocolate at tax time, but a new federal Master Tax Guide each year. | |
Judson Adair (talk|edits) said: | 29 March 2007 |
| Does anyone know how to reseach tax codes that have been repealed? I am a income tax student and for an assignment we are suppose to find code section 56(f)(2)(F)(ii)(II) and cannot find it. Everyplace I look just says that 56(f) has been repealed. I need to look at the law to see what it orginally said. My prof. like to give assignment that he know we can't do and then he gives us bad grades on them. I could use any help I can get. | |
| 29 March 2007 | |
| Go to your university tax library, or city or county library. Tax code volumes
by CCH, RIA, and others I suppose, include the repealed code sections. Services such as CCH Standard Federal Reporter have the old code sections and annotations and notes on the Acts that enacted the code, changed it and repealed it. | |
| 29 March 2007 | |
| A good deal can be found at www.taxanalysts.com Look under products, "One Disk" and I think they have a premium product too. Very affordable. | |
