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CCH FEDERAL AND STATE TAX NEWS contains free highlights of daily tax news items, such as IRS letter rulings, court opinions and legislative updates 

CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS is operated by the House of Representatives Internet Law Library.

DENNIS SCHMIDT'S TAX SITE is one of the better tax pages on the Net. Schmidt is an accounting professor at the University of Northern Iowa. Although this site contains no original material, it is an excellent resource of hyperlinks to many primary sites, including several federal court sites, state tax sites, articles and international tax sites. Like many Web pages, the availability of hyperlinks makes the navigation process very convenient.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE is a searchable database that also provides the latest information on pending legislation, the congressional directory and the Supreme Court calendar.

INTEREST RATE INFORMATION for tax calculations (applicable federal rate) is maintained by Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro LLP 

INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE maintains a library of current forms and publications, in addition to old forms dating back to 1992. Be forewarned that form availability is hit- or- miss: sometimes a common form is hard to find and sometimes rarely used forms are surprisingly available. To read the forms, you need the latest Adobe Acrobat application (see above).

PPC TAX ACTION BULLETINS from Practitioners Publishing Corp. (PPC) are provided every two weeks and contain highlights of the latest revenue rulings, court opinions, legislation and other timely tax topics. This is an abbreviated version of the PPC print publications. 

THOMAS site includes the status of current federal legislation as well as other congressional documents. This is of value to CPAs seeking the latest information on pending bills.

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FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD
FASB establishes standards of financial accounting and reporting includes FASB's publications price list as well as summaries of its pronouncements.

GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD's home page includes general information about the activities of the GASB.

PPC ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING UPDATE is a sampling of Practitioners Publishing Corp.'s monthly print series. It is posted monthly, and while it contains only a partial list of what subscription readers receive, there are valuable updates on Financial Accounting Standards Board pronouncements, auditing guides and recent FASB emerging issues task force consensus positions.

ELDERWEB This award-winning site is the oldest and largest eldercare sourcebook on the Web. It is a research site for professionals and family members, with thousands ofÜon-site and off-site articles about eldercare and long term care, including legal, financial, medical, and housing issues, as well as policy, research, and statistics. Sign up for free ElderCare online newsletter.

PPC SAMPLE CLIENT LETTERS are posted by Practitioners Publishing Corp., and they can be downloaded free. Recently, the Web site had letters on medical savings accounts, new S corporation rules, estate planning and long-term-care tax planning.

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Web page contains corporate SEC filings, in electronic form. The database is called EDGAR - for electronic data gathering, analysis and retrieval system - and is word searchable.

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