The Internet is becoming the best place to locate current, accurate tax information. The agencies delegated responsibility for taxing actions on both the state and federal levels are using the Internet to post current developments, publications, and forms. Tax practitioners and publishers are also using the power of the Internet to disseminate current tax information and materials.
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Resources—Tax |
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Taxation Section of the State Bar |
http://www.calbar.org/
taxation/index.htm |
Home page. |
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ABA Taxation Section |
http://www.abanet.org/tax/
sites.html |
The ABA Taxation Section has assembled a collection of links to Internet resources for federal, state, and foreign taxation information. |
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Internal Revenue Service |
http://www.irs.gov |
Home page with extensive links to publications, forms, instructions, and other tax information. |
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Private Letter Rulings (IRS) |
http://www.irs.gov/foia/
lists/0,,id=97705,00.html |
Current listing of IRS Private Letter Rulings. |
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IRS forms (IRS) |
http://www.irs.gov/
formspubs/index.html |
Downloadable IRS forms. |
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IRS Bulletins |
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/
lists/0,,id=98230,00.html |
Downloadable copies of IRS Bulletins. |
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California Franchise Tax Board |
http://www.ftb.ca.gov/ |
Home page. |
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Financial Accounting Standards Board |
http://www.fasb.org |
Includes summaries of the FASB statements. FASB’s financial accounting and reporting standards are recognized as authoritative by SEC. |
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The Tax Prophet (Robert L. Sommers) |
http://www.taxprophet.com |
This site, created and maintained by tax attorney and tax columnist Robert L. Sommers, contains a lengthy list of tax and other resources on the Internet |
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Tax Analysts |
http://www.taxanalysts.com |
Home page of nonprofit tax publisher. Includes Tax Wire (current tax news) and links to subscription-based tax research databases. |
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Tax Analysts Discussion Groups |
http://www.taxanalysts.com/
www/website.nsf/Web/Free
Bulletins?OpenDocument |
This page describes the various discussion groups ("moderated bulletins") hosted and moderated by Tax Analysts. It explains how to subscribe to each list. |
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Tax Master |
http://vls.law.vill.edu/
prof/maule/taxmaster |
Tax Master is a gateway site that links to other tax sites and gateways. It is a good site for locating hard to find or obscure tax information, as well as information found on other sites. |
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Tax and Accounting Sites Directory (Dennis Schmidt) |
http://www.taxsites.com/ |
This site is a comprehensive directory of tax and accounting sites and related Internet resources. |
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Spidell’s California Taxes for Professionals (Spidell Publishing, Inc.) |
http://www.caltax.com/ |
Sponsored by Spidell Publishing Inc., the site contains links to tax news and resources. Members can subscribe and use the site for tax research. |
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Checkpoint (RIA) |
http://checkpoint.ria.
thomson.com/ |
Checkpoint is an online subscription-based tax research site. |
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Taxsites (Dennis Schmidt) |
http://www.taxsites.com/
state.html |
Site contains links to taxing authorities in every state. |
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IRS’ Digital Dispatch Mailing List |
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/
taxpros |
The IRS’s daily e-mail service providing news releases, new forms and publications, and other announcements for tax professionals. |
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AICPA Online (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) |
http://www.aicpa.org/ |
Home page with extensive links to federal and state tax resources. |
