| Editorial Sources | Description |
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| Citator 2d | The Citator 2d notes specific relationships between cases (i.e., if a case has overruled another case). It also tracks a case issue individually allowing the practitioner to follow the key issues of the case. Citator is completely integrated to allow you to cite check all cases quickly and allows the user to see all the activity for a given case in one place. |
| Election & Compliance Statements | Explanatory material providing clear and concise information regarding the fundamental rules governing Elections and Compliance statements. Cites to controlling points of authority and selected portions of analysis Fill-in and document assembly with specific taxpayer information. Users can link directly from any "Statement to Use" within a RIA federal tax research product to the specific Election or Compliance statement, or from an Election or Compliance statement to text, cited Code, or regulation. |
| Federal Tax Coordinator | RIA’s expert editors bring you in-depth analysis of the law and back up their insights with citations to all controlling authorities. RIA's Federal Tax Coordinator 2d brings together in-depth federal tax law analysis, expert commentary and all the official sources in one state-of-the-art research tool. Covers all the laws, regulations, IRS rulings and court decisions that apply to each tax problem. |
| Federal Tax Handbook | The most authoritative, accurate and easy-to-use reference for day-to-day tax questions on 2001 and 2002 taxes. It provides comprehensive answers to questions on individual and corporate taxation, pension plans, employee benefits, deductions, passive losses, estate and gift taxes, and much more. The Handbook includes current and next year's income tax rates and the current rates for estate and gift, excise and Social Security taxes. |
| Practising Law Institute ( PLI) |
Practising Law Institute ( PLI) has been the preeminent publisher of professional continuing education material since 1933 and is dedicated to providing the legal community and allied professionals with the most up-to-date, relevant information and techniques critical to the development of a professional, competitive edge. Select titles from PLI are available on Checkpoint. |
| PPC's Federal Tax Compliance Library |
The PPC Federal Tax Compliance Library provides the most trusted tax guidance in the industry with roadmaps to tax planning and quick reference practice aids such as work programs, checklists and worksheets. |
| Planning, Sample Clauses, Practice Aids | Tax Planning and Practice Guides (Special Studies) – Special guides to assist you in your practice. Topics ranging back to 1992 include:
Checklists - checklists are intended to help you spot opportunities to provide needed services to your clients. They suggest actions you should take to see that tax-saving moves aren't overlooked in situations or under circumstances where your client wouldn't be expected automatically to engage you to perform tax services. They include planning ideas and tax rules which, when explained, may convince your client that your services are needed. Even where giving your client a tax-saving tip or helping avoid a tax trap doesn't lead immediately to significant new work, it will always make the client grateful and improve your long-term relationship. Use these checklists as a guide to how you might be expanding the services you are providing. Let them prompt you to contact your clients and others with information that may lead to follow-up work or create client goodwill. Tax Alerts Client Letters - Additional client letters to assist you in your practice. |
| Tables & Rates | Federal Tax Tables and Rates, such as:
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| Tax Advisors Planning System | A transactional planning tool that integrates the rules, planning ideas and implementation techniques to guide practitioners through complex transactions. The focus of TAPS is proactive planning - by giving customers a practical framework for recommending a specific course of action or way to structure a transaction. Written by a national network of active, expert practitioners, TAPS focuses on specific issues critical to closely-held businesses and their owners. Currently, it's a collection of over 40 titles that provide tax and non-tax planning guidance for general tax lawyers and accountants who represent closely held businesses and their owners. |
| Tax Desk | For the practitioner who services small businesses and individuals, Tax Desk® is a complete analytical service packaged with federal and state forms, primary source materials, practice aids and a comprehensive weekly newsletter that assists practitioners in getting quick answers to their clients tax compliance questions. Tax Desk® gives you a wealth of useful definitions, cautions, illustrations, recommendations and observations in clear business English, with a unique, practice-oriented focus. RIA’s expert analysis offers helpful commentary and specific compliance guidance. Coverage includes such key areas as taxation of individuals, partnerships, S corporations, cost recovery (including depreciation), net operating losses, compensation for small business owners, passive losses and credits, capital gains and losses, and much, much more. |
| Tax Guide | Designed for practitioners who need a general overview of the Federal Tax system, this practical and functional reference manual will help quickly answer questions on tax issues, provide summary analysis of federal tax law, and alert you to the tax problems in everyday business and personal transactions.
An analytical service on the federal tax implications of many personal and business transactions. It contains analysis of over 6,000 different topics covering federal income, estate & gift, excise and employment (FICA/FUTA) taxes. Covers tax law in a summary fashion, organized by topic. Editorial decisions are made to include only the most relevant material within these areas of the law, and to give greater coverage to those issues that are of the greatest interest to the professional community. The implications of transactions for the current tax year, as well as for the prior tax year and for future tax years are covered. |
| Topic Indexes | Indexes that divide the Tax Guide Analysis and the Tax Guide Tables, Rates & Calendars into functional components and lists each item alphabetically. |
| Tax Planning & Practice Guides (Special Studies) | Planning & Practice Guides on specific topics, including topics such as Social Security and new tax laws such as the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. |
| United States Tax Reporter | A comprehensive and up-to-date source of federal tax law, regulations, committee reports, cases, rulings, explanations and Federal forms. Annotations-organized by both code section and legal issues cite RIA’s American Federal Tax Reports, and other widely known case reporters. You also receive daily and archival updates of primary source materials. One simple keystroke links federal source material to RIA analysis. You can simultaneously search RIA editorial analysis and federal source materials using Checkpoint’s custom search templates. Or, you can retrieve, print, and export specific document types. Everything you need for federal tax research is at your fingertips. |
| WG&L Treatises | Written with clarity and authority by experts in their respective fields, WG&L's Treatises that are in effect between the United States and foreign countries, are an invaluable resource for any tax professional. You’ ll have unlimited access to the entire line of WG&L federal, state & local, international, estate planning and pension & benefits treatises on Checkpoint® -- vital information for anyone with tax responsibilities in your firm. Keep informed with daily updates of primary source materials. |