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Federal Tax Research Guide: News

A guide to Brooklyn Law School's federal tax resources. Call numbers are specific to Brooklyn Law School Library.

News

IRS provides:

Internal Revenue Bulletin

The IRS describes this source as "the authoritative instrument of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for announcing official rulings and procedures of the Internal Revenue Service and for publishing Treasury Decisions, Executive Orders, Tax Conventions, legislation, court decisions and other items of general interest."

e-News Subscriptions

The IRS offers free topic-specific e-newsletters, including e-News for Tax Professionals.

Bloomberg Law: practice center: Tax groups news, reports and journal articles under heading: News & Journals.

Daily Tax Report (covers U.S. federal/state tax developments and international tax developments)

Tax Management Weekly Report (covers "federal legislative, regulatory, judicial and policy developments relating to taxation") 

Federal Tax Developments Tracker (offers ability to filter by date, type of development, type of tax, topic or Internal Revenue Code section)

Checkpoint Edge: Click top-level tab: More > News.  Top-level tabs: Federal and State also link to: News.

Provides the daily news sources Federal Tax Update, State Tax Update and Payroll Update. 

Offers State Legislative Highlights and State Proposed Legislation

Includes link (on left): Search News Library.

Checkpoint Edge requires registration.

Site for BLS students to register: https://cpreg.thomsonreuters.com  Vendor requires students to re-register each semester.

BLS faculty and administrators: please contact Librarian Jeff Gabel (jeff.gabel@brooklaw.edu) to begin the registration process.

Site for all researchers to log in after registration: https://checkpoint.riag.com

Law.com: Tax

To access Law.com: Tax from off-campus locations: implement the BLS proxy server instructions for 1 web browser.

Law360: Tax news & Law360: Tax Authority "deep news and analysis" (scope: U.S. federal, state/local and international)

Tip: Law360 news stories often link to primary legal news sources (look for an "Attached Documents" box on right).

Interesting: Todd Buell, What Books Tax Pros Recommend For This Summer (Aug. 9, 2024)

To access Law360 sources from off-campus locations: implement the BLS proxy server instructions for 1 web browser.

Additional source of Law360 content: Lexis > Legal News Hub, click tab: All Sections to view Law360: Tax news & "deep news and analysis."  Subcategories include: Tax Authority Federal, Tax Authority International and Tax Authority State & Local.   

Lexis provides Tax Key Legal Developments Tracker (Federal).

Tax Notes

BLS Library obtains weekly editions of Tax Notes Federal and Tax Notes State in print.  Call Number: P T171 (Law Rev.)  BLS faculty who wish to be added to a routing list for the print issues should contact Acquisitions Librarian/E-Resources Manager Jeff Gabel (jeff.gabel@brooklaw.edu).

BLS students, faculty and administrators need to create individual accounts to access digital versions of Tax Notes Today Federal/State/International/Global news and analysis.  The digital Tax Notes subscription also includes Exempt Organizations Expert, Tax Practice Expert, BEPS Expert, FATCA Expert, and Procedurally Taxing ("[c]overing developments in tax procedure and administration, with a focus on articles of interest to practitioners and academics").   

1) Access https://www.taxnotes.com > click SIGN IN (top left)
2) In username field, enter your Brooklyn Law School e-mail address > click: Next

3) Beneath "New Brooklyn Law School User?" click: Register Here

4) On the profile page, enter your name and Brooklyn Law School e-mail address.  C
hoose a password and enter it.
5) After completing the profile, click: SAVE CHANGES
.
6) Go to the Tax Notes website, where you now can sign in with your your Brooklyn Law School e-mail address and the password you chose.  Under Subscriptions > News, there are links to federal, state and international news and analysis from Tax Notes.

TaxProf Blog of Dean Paul Caron, Pepperdine University School of Law. 

Also, Legal Education > Weekly Roundup provides: Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review and Roundup.

VitalLaw provides Federal Tax Day, CCH Federal Tax Weekly and Federal and State Tax Current Developments Smart Chart.

Tip: Tax - Federal home page highlights news headlines from Federal Tax Day (on bottom right of screen).

To access VitalLaw from off-campus locations: implement the BLS proxy server instructions for 1 web browser.  

Westlaw provides Federal Taxation IRS News ReleasesTaxation News, EY Tax Alerts (EY = Ernst & Young)