Research Guides: Accounting: Taxation

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Tax Topics
The Tax Foundation The Tax Foundation is a nonpartisan organization founded in 1937. Its stated mission is to "educate taxpayers about sound tax policy and the size of the tax burden borne by Americans at all levels of government." The site offers podcasts, publications, data, charts, and maps.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) The Internal Revenue Service is the nation's tax collection agency and administers the Internal Revenue Code enacted by Congress.
Tax Terms (Investopedia)

Taxation: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Smith In this Very Short Introduction Stephen Smith shows how taxes have real effects on citizens and the economy that tax policy-makers have to balance.
Call Number: Drexel HJ2250 .S58 2015

Publication Date: 2015
A Short and Happy Guide to Corporate Taxation by David Elkins
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2021

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Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Stockholders in a Nutshell 9th by Karen Burke
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2024

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26 U.S. Code Title 26—INTERNAL REVENUE CODE Legal Information Institute. Cornell University Law School

ABA Tax Times
American Bar Association
ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research
Internal Revenue Bulletins (IRB) The Internal Revenue Bulletin (IRB) is the authoritative instrument for announcing official rulings and procedures of the IRS and for publishing Treasury Decisions, Executive Orders, Tax Conventions, legislation, court decisions, and other items of general interest.
Tax Law Review
Tax Lawyer
American Bar Association
Practical tax strategies
Thomson Reuters Checkpoint
Virginia Tax Review

Westlaw
U.S. laws, statues, case law, Code of Federal Regulations, as well as secondary sources for legal research.

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Content includes:

Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections (STC)
Tax Statistics (IRS) Includes Statistics of Income (SOI), Business Tax Statistics, and Charitable & Exempt Org. Statistics
Revenue Statistics (OECD)
OECD’s annual statistical publication that presents a unique set of detailed and internationally comparable tax revenue data in a common format for all OECD countries from 1965 onwards.

Statista Includes a broad range of statistics from national and international data sources, searchable by industries, markets, topics, and countries.