WEBrowsing.* National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP NATP National Association of Tax Professionals NATP National Agricultural Technology Project (India) NATP National Association of Tax Practitioners NATP National Apprenticeship Training Program NATP National Athletic Testing Program ) (www.natp tax.com) is a nonprofit association that serves professionals in all areas of tax practice. Its members include CPAs, attorneys, enrolled agents, accountants and financial planners. Several of the NATP Website's resources, including tax tips, tax news, links to tax-related websites and tax facts, are freely available to nonmembers. NATP sponsors a variety of CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment and other educational opportunities and publishes a monthly newsletter and quarterly journal. * SmartMoney Tax Guide (www.smart money.com/tax) has numerous articles, worksheets and calculators primarily for tax and personal financial planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against . SmartMoney is a joint publishing venture of Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance & Company, Inc. and Hearst SM Partnership. The site's index directs tax practitioners to specific articles and worksheets by topic area. Topics include tax basics, capital gains/ investments, retirement accounts, work and business taxes, and home and family taxes. * Streamlined Sales Tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. (SST SST: see airplane. ) (www.streamlinedsalestax.org) is an organization of U.S. state tax administrators working on reforms in state sales and use taxes to make them simpler and more uniform. Through sales tax simplification, SST proponents hope Congress or the Federal courts will allow the states to collect sales taxes from out-of-state vendors that sell via the Internet or catalogues with no physical presence in their state. The SST Website posts drafts of white papers, agreements and meeting announcements. Sales and use tax practitioners and business taxpayers will find this site useful as they monitor the evolution of state sales tax policy. * Tax Planning Tax planning Devising strategies throughout the year in order to minimize tax liability, for example, by choosing a tax filing status that is most beneficial to the taxpayer. : U.S. (taxes.about. com) is a frequently updated Website maintained by About.com. Its articles and other resources relate to a variety of tax planning and compliance topics. Articles about specific topics can be located from the left-side navigation bar or by keyword searches using the site's search engine. Tax advisers should also consider subscribing to the site's free weekly e-mail newsletter. Although all the resources on this site are freely available, they are typically accompanied by numerous advertisements and sponsored links. * TaxProf Blog (taxprof.typepad. com) is edited by Paul L. Caron, a tax law professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law The University of Cincinnati College of Law is the fourth oldest continually running law school in the United States and a founding member of the Association of American Law Schools. It was started in 1833 as the Cincinnati Law School. . The site covers a wide range of witty commentary about Federal tax law. The commentary includes editorials, academic tax research, oddball tax developments, songs about taxes and any other miscellaneous topics of interest to Prof. Caron. The site provides amusement and mental stimulation to tax professors and practitioners who might have an otherwise dull day buried in the Code. * WorldWideWeb Tax (www.wwweb tax.com) is a comprehensive U.S. Federal income tax directory organized by tax attorney Julian Block of Larchmont, NY. Block has been writing and making presentations on individual income taxes for more than 20 years. Nearly all the articles and links are for individuals and small businesses. The site's "Master Index of Tax Topics" lists nearly 300 tax subjects in alphabetical order. Although much of this material is also available on www.irs.gov, this site provides additional commentary and suggestions written in easily understandable language. Editors: Dennis Schmidt, Ph.D., CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. Professor of Accounting College of Business Montana State University Montana State University, at Bozeman; land-grant; coeducational; chartered 1893. It is primarily a technical institution specializing in agriculture, engineering, and applied sciences. The Museum of the Rockies is there. Bozeman, MT Will Yancey, Ph.D., CPA Independent Consultant Dallas, TX |
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