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Title: Electronic Tax Research


1
Electronic Tax Research Its Not That Bad
  • Southwestern Association of Law Libraries
  • Annual Meeting
  • April 2, 2005
  • Stefanie Blasdell Anna K. Teller
  • Law School Consultant
    Associate Director
  • Bureau of National Affairs Texas
    Wesleyan Law Library

2
What am I demonstrating? What will you will
learn from my demonstration?
  • Basic searching in Tax Management Library
  • Focus on Tax Management Portfolios
  • Touch on some advanced features
  • Learn new methods of searching
  • Learn new ways to instruct your patrons

3
Wesleyan welcome screen
4
Choose Tax Management Library
5
Click Go
6
Patron Query Can interest paid on student loans
be deducted more than once?
7
Click Search and choose Federal/Foreign
8
The search template for the Federal/Foreign
resources is now displayed
9
Choose resources to search, we will choose U.S.
Income Portfolios and Internal Revenue Code
10
Enter the phrase student loan interest and
execute the search
11
Search results include 46 hits in U.S. Income
Portfolios, choose View TOC
12
Expand using TOC results, choose entry with 36
hits
13
Expand again, choose entry relevant to topic and
with several hits
14
Scholarships and Educational Expenses is my
choice, now expand the Detailed Analysis
15
Again choose relevant entry, Interest on
Educational Loans, and expand
16
Again choose relevant entry, In General, and
expand
17
Choose a link to follow, we will choose 2.
Interest Payments Made
18
Interest Payments Made During Periods When Not
Required Denial of Double Deduction
19
Patron Query Can interest paid on student loans
be deducted more than once? Alternate starting
point from initial directory.
20
Choose a resource method. Pick a
portfolioU.S. Income Portfolios
21
Click Search and choose Special
22
The search template for U.S. Income Portfolios is
now displayed
23
Enter the phrase student loan interest and
execute the search
24
Search results include 46 hits
25
Table of Contents Search Method, again
usingU.S. Income Portfolios
26
Choose relevant entry, Income, Deductions,
Credits and Computation of Tax, and expand
27
Again choose relevant entry, Scholarships and
Educational Expenses, and expand
28
Again choose relevant entry, Detailed Analysis,
and expand
29
Choose relevant entry again, Interest on
Educational Loans, and expand
30
Expand by choosing a relevant entry, In General
31
Patron is interested in information on double
deductions, so choose entry 2
32
Interest Payments Made During Periods When Not
Required Denial of Double Deduction
33
Click on linked statutes or regulations to see
them, choose 221(e)(1)
34
Internal Revenue Code 221(e)(1) is displayed
35
Patron Query Can interest paid on student loans
be deducted more than once? Same query but
different search syntax.
36
Same search with different search syntax,
interest and student loan
37
Search results include 31 hits in U.S. Income
Portfolios, choose View TOC
38
Expand using TOC results, choose relevant entry
with 21 hits
39
Again choose relevant entry, Scholarship and
Educational Expenses, and expand
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