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Links to Government/Taxation Sites FedWorld Information Network This site allows the user to perform a key word search of all the files in approximately 100 directories. This site contains about 15,000 data files produced by U.S. Government agencies. Some items available in this site that may be of interest include IRS tax forms and publications, whitehouse press releases, federal job announcements, weather satellite images, a Davis-Bacon database (fee basis), and various directories from the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Federal Government Agencies This site produced by Louisiana State University has an extensive home page that lists several hundred links to various government agencies. The links are split into 8 categories: Executive Branch, Judicial Branch, Legislative Branch, Independent Agencies, Boards and Committees, Quasi-Official Agencies, and other sites. Federal Gateway This site provides links to various congressional, legislative, judicial and government agency sites. U.S. Government Printing Office This site provides access to government information products, links to documents in the GPO WAIS Databases, and other services available from the U.S. Government Printing Office. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) This site provides access to OSHA media releases, OSHA publications, information regarding OSHA programs and services, compliance assistance, answers to frequently asked questions, statistics and data standards. OSHA offers compliance assistance in the form of free consultation services as well as a voluntary protection program and even provides a listing of the most frequent violations and a search engine for determining industry specific violations. Statistical information is available regarding injury and illness incident rates. A safety and health statistics site provides information regarding injuries, illnesses and health care expenditures and tables that identify injuries and illnesses by stated characteristics. This site also provides hot links to related sites including developments in labor-management relations, employee benefits surveys, employment cost trends, compensation surveys and the Bureau of Labor Statistics Comp2000 survey results. Bureau of Labor Statistics This site provides national labor data and statistics including employment, hours, and earnings data, unemployment rates, and consumer and producer pricing indexes on a regional or local basis, a summary of the major economic indicators for the previous year, publications, research papers and a keyword search engine. The site features a sophisticated data extraction system that will allow you to design your own search query complete with specified date ranges and output options. Fedstats The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the statistics and information produced by more than 70 federal agencies. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the
Census Created by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, this site is an excellent source of social, demographic and economic information, current U.S. and world population counts, current economic indicators, press releases and news about census briefs, the latest economic indicators and upcoming events. The site is equipped with a search engine that allows you to search on-line documents and files by word and place and a graphical map search engine that goes to a national, state or county level and provides general as well as economic profiles. The site is also equipped with several access tools that will allow you to view census information or create your own extract files from the census data. The Censtat and Censtore sites provide access to electronic images of Census publications and reports and allow you to order Census Bureau products. Just for fun, the site uses an interactive approach to help you learn a little about statistical information and the access methods. The site is well-designed and easy to use for novice as well as experienced Internet users. Code of Federal Regulations The Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs) contains the text of public regulations issued by the agencies of the Federal Government. Proposed regulations and recently issued regulations can be found in the Federal Register. Created by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, this site supports word, concept, relate, dictionary and fuzzy searches of the CFRs. This site also provides links to other sites including the Federal Register, the United States Code (Statutes), Federal Court Decisions and Rulings, Treaties and International Law. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) This site provides access to various SEC publications related to investing, news, enforcement actions (ex. litigation, investor alerts, and insider trading), and SEC rulemaking and allows you to file complaints and ask questions. This site features access to the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System (EDGAR), which performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by most entities required to file information with the SEC. You may search the EDGAR database for entities using a keyword search of the header information in the filings or the entities' Central Index Key and you may limit your search to specific filings. This site also features a page dedicated to Small Businesses that includes answers to frequently asked questions and information regarding small business initiatives. This page also provides hot links to the U.S. Business Advisor and the Small Business Administration Web sites. U.S. Code This site provides the text current public laws enacted by Congress. Created by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, this site supports word, concept, relate, dictionary and fuzzy searches. This site also provides links to other sites including the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Court Decisions and Rulings, Treaties and International Law. U.S. State & Local Gateway This site was developed to give state and local government officials and employees easy access to federal information in ways that make sense to them. There are links to state and local governments and to federal agencies, including links by topic. Government Information Xchange This site provides listings of federal agencies, federal telephone directories, and a web locator to allow you to locate information on various programs. The site also contains information on government publications and taxes. IGNet This site contains interactive access to Government Accounting Standards ( yellow book) and links to the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and various professional organizations. The single audit library section is discussed below. Government Accountability Office (GAO) This site contains facts about the GAO, GAO reports, policies and procedures manuals and a link to download Government Accounting Standards.
U.S. Tax Code Online This page provides complete text of the United States Internal Revenue Code, Title 26 of the U.S. Code in a variety of ways. Hyperlinks have been embedded in the Code to permit following cross-references between sections with a mouse click. A full-text search engine allows for quick location of Code sections by content. Tax and Accounting Sites Directory The home page is split into 16 Tax, 12 Accounting, and 7 "Other Useful" site directories with links to many other sites. Tax Resources This site provides links listed under 20 different category types in the table of contents. Categories of interest include professional tax articles, tax software and education providers. The resources link contains tax court cases and the IRS revenue manual. Tax Analysts A nonprofit organization prepares this site. The site provides information about tax news, feature articles, statistics, and discussion groups available to subscribers and nonsubscribers. The tax notes newswire is updated daily. The subscription area "TaxBase" provides coverage of the latest tax legislation; policies for international, federal and state issues; and a tax research library. The discussion group section provides links to 22 different tax discussion groups ranging in topics form estate planning to farms. Each discussion group also has an archive section for past questions and answers. IRS Statistics Page The Transactional Records Clearinghouse at Syracuse University operates this site. You must register to access this site. This site offers data on national trends, enforcement, and taxpayer burden. Findlaw: Internet Legal Resources This site has a full text searchable database with 14 categories covering legal issues. The 14 categories are: Legal Subject Index, Law Schools, Professional Development, Legal Associations and Organizations, Law Firms and Lawyers, Consultants and Experts, Laws: Cases and Codes, U.S. Federal Government Resources, State Law Resources, Foreign and International Resources, News and Reference Material, Legal Practice, Community and Directories. The site also contains links to various features and legal news. Library of Congress This site provides full text access to current bills under consideration in the U.S. Congress. The Library Services and Research Tools links provide easy access to various databases and other Library of Congress Internet resources. Other links provide historical information which may provide valuable material for students and educators. Internet Law Library This site was developed by the Office of Law Revision Counsel. The mission of this site is to provide free public access to the basic documents of U.S. law. The site provides full text searchable copies of the United States Code and the Code of Federal Regulations as noted above in the government summary section. The site has also organized thousands of Internet law resources by subject and jurisdiction.
Federal Audit Clearinghouse (FAC) This site provides access to the FAC database containing information on OMB Circular A-133 audits and two templates for preparation of the Data Collection Form. Sometime in 1999, the site will also provide access to a Single Audit Reference Library and an online submission process for the Data Collection Form. IGNet Single Audit Library This site contains links to all OMB Circulars and guidelines, PCIE position statements, the Single Audit Clearinghouse and the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance This site gives up-to-date on line detail for all federal programs listed in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. A keyword search is available to locate specific federal grant programs. Single Audit Information Service This is the on-line version of the Single Audit Information Service published by Thompson Publishing Group. This site primarily serves as an advertisement for this publication, but does include samples of newsletter articles and a full table of contents for the Information Service. Office of Management and Budget This site consists of a list of hot links to various OMB publications including OMB Bulletins and Circulars. One interesting publication is a citizen's guide to the federal budget. |