Surgent's Tax Research - Intermediate Concepts

May 1st, 2026 - April 30th, 2027 @ -

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Credits

2

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

  • Understand the organization of the Internal Revenue Code, the Treasury Regulations, and Revenue Rulings
  • Identify the circumstances when a client may want to consider requesting a private letter ruling
  • Differentiate between primary and secondary pieces of authority
  • Understand the steps to the tax research process and the parts of a tax research memorandum

Leader Bios

Major Subjects

  • Tax code hierarchy
  • Organization of an Internal Revenue Code section
  • Special rules for IRC citation
  • Citing other primary authorities
  • Private letter rulings
  • Primary vs. secondary authority
  • Secondary sources of authority
  • Steps in the tax research process
  • Research memoranda

Prerequisites

A basic familiarity with tax research