Event Description

Answering clients’ tax questions accurately and on time is a key challenge for tax practitioners. Through simple, plain language explanations and examples, this course will help practitioners perform tax research more efficiently by describing the structure of the primary sources, highlighting the difference between primary and secondary sources and describing the steps in the tax research process.

Objectives

Illustrate the organization of the Internal Revenue Code, the Treasury Regulations, and Revenue RulingsIdentify the circumstances when a client may want to consider requesting a private letter ruling.Differentiate between primary and secondary pieces of authorityIllustrate the steps to the tax research process and the parts of a tax research memorandum