Tax Research Consultant™ Tax research software with comprehensive federal tax information organized to fit your workflow
Tax Research Consultant™ provides you answers to tax research questions with a practical, real-world focus on tax laws and the important issues you face every day. This comprehensive tax research software is written by experienced CCH editorial staff and leading tax practitioners to streamline your workflow and quickly guide you to the answers to those tax research questions you need.
Transactional explanations, interactive research aids, practical examples, sample calculations, worksheets, checklists, planning notes and other tax research software features show you exactly how critical tax principles apply to a particular client.
New! IRC/Multistate Corporate and Personal Income Tax Comparison Smart Charts™ Save time comparing federal and state tax treatments with IRC/Multistate Corporate and Personal Income Tax Comparison Smart Charts™. This powerful tool uses exclusive Smart Chart technology to present federal-state tax comparisons in an easy-to-read chart format. It integrates your Tax Research Consultant™ and State Tax Reporters subscription content to quickly create a chart comparing federal and state tax treatments. You choose the topics. You choose the jurisdictions. Smart Charts does the rest.
Transactional Explanations New federal tax explanations are presented in our tax research software in transactional “stages” that match the life stages of your individual or business clients. Whether it’s a personal life change such as starting a family, getting a new business off the ground or setting up a company retirement plan, Tax Research Consultant is structured to fit your client’s tax situation and to answer all your tax research questions.
Go directly to the tax information you need.
Quickly find solutions to your tax research questions, including complex federal tax issues.
Get the strategies, guidance and support you need to search and understand federal tax law.
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Tax Research Software with Comprehensive Coverage Tax Research Consultant covers all of your tax research questions across all federal tax topics. Fundamental Concept Chapters for each topic are used in our tax research software get you up to speed quickly using a Q&A format with links to specific sub-topics.
Our tax research software covers these main areas:
Individual Income Taxes
Deductions and Credits
Depreciation and Cost Recovery
Sales and Exchanges
Real Estate Transactions
C Corporations
Corporate Net Operating Losses
Consolidated Groups
Corporate Reorganizations
Partnerships, LLCs, S Corporations
Compensation and Benefits
Retirement Plans
Estate and Gift Taxes
International Taxation
Audits, Collection and Tax Litigation
Tax Exempt Organizations
Tax Accounting
Excise Taxes
Journals and Updates Answer your tax research questions and keep up with the evolving tax environment with daily, weekly and monthly tax publications.
Tax Tracker News™ – Customized tax news delivered daily via email and your own personalized web page, with stories and primary source material integrated with your federal and state tax materials
CCH Federal Tax Weekly
TAXES – The Tax Magazine®
Tax Legislation Get answers to your tax research questions with our tax research software: Stay on top of the latest tax legislation and get analysis and reports on past bills.
Legislation Newswire – Latest developments in Congress and pending law changes
Bills Worth Watching – Tables showing recently proposed bills, bill names, latest bill status and the date of any reports issued
Tax Briefings – Five years of analysis of key provisions in tax bills
Law, Explanation and Analysis – CCH analysis, background and primary sources for all acts since 1989
… and much more
CCH Guides
U.S. Master Tax Guide® – The best-selling, quick-answer handbook in electronic format, with baseline answers for all income, estate and gift tax questions, plus links to our tax research software, Tax Research Consultant and primary source documents
Tax Planning Guide – Answers your tax research questions by explaining the tax provisions and non-tax considerations relating to income, estate and gift tax planning for both individuals and businesses
U.S. Master™ Estate & Gift Tax Guide
U.S. Master™ Depreciation Guide
U.S. Master™ GAAP Guide
CCH Tax Practice Guides
… and much more
Federal Codes and Regulations
Internal Revenue Code
Federal Tax Regulations – Includes final, temporary and proposed regulations
Rulings and Other Documents – Full text of Revenue Rulings, Revenue Procedures, Treasury Decisions, Notices of Proposed Rulemaking, IRS Announcements and more, as far back as 1954
Letter Rulings and IRS Positions
… and much more
Key Features of our tax research software:
Transactional Materials – New federal tax explanations are organized in stages that match the life stages of your individual or business clients.
Interactive Research Aids – An all-inclusive collection of interactive web applications helps you make decisions quickly.
Comprehensive Topic Coverage – All federal tax research question topics are covered in-depth, with quick links to primary sources to increase your productivity.
Expert Commentary – Leading tax experts provide practical tips to help you offer authoritative advice to your clients.
Transactional Materials Our tax research software, Tax Research Consultant, provides the most efficient way to find the answers to your tax questions. New federal tax explanations are organized in the way you encounter a client’s tax situation – in stages. Whether it’s starting a family, getting a new business off the ground or setting up a company retirement plan, you can get answers to your tax research questions by going directly to the information you need on a particular point of a transaction.
Transactional stages include:
Business Stages from Start-up to Termination
NEW! Planning for Stages in an Individual’s Life
NEW! Retirement Plan Stages from Start-up to Termination
New! IRC/Multistate Corporate and Personal Income Tax Comparison Smart Charts™ Save time comparing federal and state tax treatments. IRC/Multistate Corporate and Personal Income Tax Comparison Smart Charts is a powerful tool that uses exclusive Smart Chart technology to present federal-state tax comparisons in an easy-to-read chart format. It integrates your Tax Research Consultant™ and State Tax Reporters subscription content to quickly create a chart comparing federal and state tax treatments. You choose the topics. You choose the jurisdictions. Smart Charts does the rest.
Interactive Research Aids The Interactive Research Aids included with our tax research software are an innovative and comprehensive suite of interactive web applications that cover a broad range of topics and help you quickly answer your tax research questions. The suite of Interactive Research Aids continues to grow, with more to be added to help you reach the best tax decisions.
Interactive Research Aids consist of:
Decision Trees
Interactive Examples
Interactive Charts
These valuable tax research software tools:
Link to both primary and secondary sources
Enable you to create “what if ” scenarios
Simplify your searches and the decision process through a question and answer format
Include value-added comments, such as examples, cautions, and planning notes
Display pre-populated IRS forms and election statements, when applicable
Generate comprehensive conclusions that are tailored to a particular taxpayer’s situation
Timesaving Tools
Tax Rates and Tables – Critical tax rates and amounts, all in one convenient publication
Depreciation Toolkit™ – Helps you quickly create a depreciation schedule for any business asset and provides information on depreciation options
Business and Tax Preparation Calculators – Provide quick access to common business and tax computations
Tax Calendar – Creates a customized calendar of federal and state tax due dates for the tax types and jurisdictions you specify and displays these dates, along with filing instructions
perform plus III™ – Interactive federal tax forms and instructions via the Internet
