Performing a Sectional Search

The State & Local practice area contains two sectional or specialty search templates that allow you to conduct research on specific topics across states. These are the Multistate Corporate Income and Multistate Sales & Use sectional templates. The procedure for performing a sectional search is very similar to that for performing a multiple state search.

If you subscribe to either or both of Checkpoint's sectional products, you can access them from the left pane of the State & Local practice area.

To perform a sectional search:

1. Select the appropriate sectional (either Multistate Corp Income with Cases or Multistate Sales & Use with Cases).

   The State Selection screen appears. As part of your subscription, all states are available for selection; you cannot subscribe to individual jurisdictions within a sectional.

   
2. If you select one state from the list, the specific template for that state appears.

   If you select more than one state, the Multistate Search template appears:

   

3. The Multistate Search template displays the Tax and Document types common to the states you selected. Choose the tax types and document types that you want to search by selecting the check boxes.

4. Type your search terms in the Keywords field and click Search.

5. The Source List screen appears with a list of the states you searched and the number of documents for each state that matched your search terms. Click a state to view a list of the retrieved documents on the Document List screen.

Related Topics:

• About State and Local Searches
• Retrieving Sales & Use Tax Rates

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