Exam 8: Tax Services Specialty and Others

The process of evaluating the validity of a case and locating additional authority often is called:

The Westlaw research service which helps determine whether a case, law, or regulation remains good law is called:

Today, BNA is owned by Bloomberg, provides 350 news services, and is the largest independent publisher of business and government analysis for professionals.

BNA Portfolios are grouped by area of common topic into COLLECTIONS (e.g., there are multiple portfolios on income tax accounting that will be displayed if one clicks on that heading).

All major law schools, as well as organizations such as the National Tax Association, and the American Taxation Association, produce publications referred to as:

Most search indexes and databases such as Google Scholar, JSTOR, Business Source Premier, Thomson Reuters Web of Science, and ABI/Inform, facilitate the locating of relevant tax articles by focusing on a guided search strategy.

Perhaps the only tax services not available on LexisNexis are its competitors Checkpoint and Westlaw.

The BNA Portfolios can be accessed directly by clicking on the headings under:

What are KeySearch and the West Key Number System?

For which type of search does BNA offer four different ways to do a search in the tax databases?

The service LexisNexis offers to academic institutions and public libraries which is a customized version of its services is called:

The legal oriented services by the West Group designed by attorneys, for attorneys is called:

The more than 500 BNA Portfolios are classified into five series: Federal, International, State, Accounting, and:

Tax Journals published for the purpose of keeping tax practitioners abreast of current changes and trends in the tax law are referred to as Professional Notes.

The publications containing a variety of articles and news briefs that are designed to keep readers up to date in specific or general areas of the tax law are called:

The citation for a printed tax journal article should take the following standard format: Sanders, Debra, Susan Gill, and Jill Zuber. 2009. Deductibility of bankruptcy costs and the origin of the claim. The Tax Advisor 40 (8): at 528.

Realizing how important tax research has become, LexisNexis developed a service exclusively for tax practitioners called the Lexis Advance Tax.

Like BNA, Westlaw is accessible via the Internet and through wireless mobile devices.

The search technique similar to browsing and then searching within the browsed documents organized according to type or content area is called a:

One of the most important tax newsletters available to practitioners is the BNA Daily Tax Report (DTR). DTR is available online; through wireless devices, including iPhones; and in hard copy.