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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.
Department of the
Treasury
Supreme
Court
U.S. Commerce
Department
U.S. House
U.S. Senate
U.S. Tax
Court
State Bar of
Texas
Texas State Board of Public
Accountancy
Small Business
Administration
Social Security
Administration
Texas Secretary of
State
Texas Workforce
Commission
Window on Texas State
Government
American Institute of
CPAs
Texas
OnLine
Texas Government
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