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As a result of a cooperative effort between the IRS and state tax administration agencies, Federal/State e-file is available to taxpayers to file their Federal and state returns electronically at the same time. It is available to you through tax professionals or in most states by filing from your home computer.

States Participating in Federal/State e-file

Contains links directly to each participating states' websites for filing electronic returns.

Articles

Overlooked tax deductions - Feb. 7, 2005

Trade publications, pain medication, tax preparation; these deductions add up if you're itemizing.

MSN Money - Unlucky 7: The top taxpayer mistakes

Tax Enforcement and Compliance

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Abusive Tax Shelters

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IRS Announces the 2005 Dirty Dozen

The “Dirty Dozen” for 2005 includes several new scams that either manipulate laws governing charitable groups, abuse credit counseling services or rely on refuted arguments to claim tax exemptions. The agency also sees the continuing spread of identity theft schemes preying on people through e-mail, the Internet or the phone, sometimes with con artists posing as representatives of the IRS.

Keep your tax records

Taxes: What you need to keep and how long do you need to keep your tax records and receipts?

5 ways to avoid an audit

Disclose all income, back up your itemized deductions and calculate earned income credit with care. Trade publications, pain medication, tax preparation; these deductions add up if you're itemizing.

5 audit red flags

Do you really think you can outfox the IRS? It's best not to try.

Tax Law

MSN Money - 2004 Tax Law Changes: Taxes

US CODE: Title 26,TITLE 26—INTERNAL REVENUE CODE

You can search the Internal Revenue Code here, also.

FindLaw: Legal Subjects: Tax Law
The Official Web Site of the United States Tax Court

The Court has added TC and Memorandum Opinions from 09/25/95 to its Opinions Search.

U.S. Tax Court Opinions Search

Search by date, case name keyword, judge, opinion type (TC Opinion, Memorandum, Summary), sort by case name or release date, or do a text search within the opinions.

Pursuant to Internal Revenue Code Section 7463(b), Summary opinions may not be treated as precedent for any other case. TC and Memorandum Opinions starting 09/25/95; Summary Opinions starting 01/01/01*

Revenue Rulings

Revenue Rules from 1954-2003 - Lists rules by year and number, but not by title. Click on the rule to see the full ruling.

Internal Revenue Bulletins

The Internal Revenue Bulletin (IRB) is the authoritative instrument of the IRS for announcing all substantive ruling necessary to promote a uniform application of tax law. IRBs are in Adobe PDF format.

Special Sites

Tax and Accounting Sites Directory

TaxAlmanac - TaxAlmanac: About

This is a new tax wiki for tax professionals, supported by Intuit, the same company that makes the popular tax software, but it can be read or edited by anyone. It's in beta right now, but it looks promising. Below are excerpts from its About page.

TaxAlmanac is a free tax research resource brought to you by Intuit. It is a revolutionary leap forward in how tax professionals research tax laws, create and share knowledge. Our goal is to transform tax research and to improve the effectiveness of tax professionals everywhere. TaxAlmanac draws on the power of community. Simply put, none of us is as smart as all of us. Content on TaxAlmanac is written by tax professionals from across the country and takes advantage of the knowledge of academia as well as practioners - in short, the real tax experts. The site includes key information that tax professionals find useful when conducting research - including the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations, Tax Court Cases, and a variety of Articles. TaxAlmanac currently contains 8,264 articles.

TaxAlmanac includes global search functionality so you can easily search for a particular topic.
You can create watch lists of articles that are of special interest to you.
Each article includes a historical look-back so that you can see how it has evolved over time.
Got a question? You can request a topic on our Ask a Question page. The community will answer it for you, making TaxAlmanac a unique interactive experience.
Current events are updated regularly to keep you up to date with issues in the profession.
Check the recent changes page for a list of the most recently edited articles.

TaxAlmanac is a very young website and was built internally by Intuit. Our employees contributed articles on tax and non-tax topics. A group of 30 tax professionals from Intuit wrote approximately 150 articles about tax law and compliance. In addition, we had a team of 5 people from our User Education group write help and other non-tax information.

We also engaged several engineers who imported the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulations from the government website. Now, we are in the process of populating the site with other primary source information.

Now that we are a live beta site, the number of authors and reviewers will grow significantly, thereby adding tremendous value. We hope that many of you reading this right now will be active participants, editors, and reviewers.

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