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Colin Fong, ‘Free Tax Websites: A Review’, (2011) 19(2) Australian Law Librarian 130-140

A Selection of web resources referred to in the above article.

Current Awareness

• Canadian Tax Journal – Issues Index 
• University of Texas Tarlton Law Library Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Law Journals
• Washington & Lee Law School Current Law Journal Content  - ceased to be updated on 13 May 2011 but is still available for searching to this date

Experts in Taxation

     Academic

• Australasian Tax Teachers Association

• Australasian Law Teachers Association 

Practitioner

• Tax Institute – Members need to log in
• Law Society of New South Wales – separate areas for Solicitors and for the Community
• New South Wales Bar Association – use the Find a Barrister link and then select Areas of Practice
• Thomson Tax & Accounting Industry Contacts

Finding Judgments and Sentences on the web (Note: these are not tax specific websites)

• AustLII
• AustLII Advanced Search
• AustLII databases - coverage
• Australian Capital Territory Sentences  
• New South Wales Courts & Tribunals
• Northern Territory Decisions
• Northern Territory Recent Sentences   
• Queensland Judgments 
• South Australian Recent Judgments  
• Tasmanian Recent Sentences  
• Victorian Judgments and Sentences  
• Western Australian Judgments  

Finding Legislation on the web (Note: these are not tax specific websites)

• AustLII
• AustLII Point in Time legislation
• Australian Capital Territory legislation
• ComLaw 
• New South Wales Legislation
• New Zealand Legislation
• New Zealand Legislation User Guide
• Northern Territory Legislation
• Queensland Legislation
• South Australian Legislation   
• Tasmanian Legislation
• Victorian Legislation
• Western Australian Legislation   

Government reports

• Commonwealth Taxation Review Committee, Report chaired by KW Asprey, 1975

Government web sites

• Treasury (Cth)
• Australian Taxation Office – Extrinsic Materials
• Federal Treaties double taxation agreements

Help pages

• AustLII Help page 
• AustLII Help for First Time Users
• AustLII Search Operators Chart
• AustLII User Guide
• AustLII Search Help 
• AustLII Frequently Asked Questions
• AustLII Guide to Legal Research on the Web
• AustLII Legal Publishers Search Help
• AustLII Displaying Search Results Help
• LawCite Help
  Information on how to use LawCite, AustLII's free International Law Citator.
• Case Law Help
  Help on how to navigate and use case law (court judgments, tribunal decisions), such as help on printing, searching and downloading.
• Legislation Help
  Help on how to navigate and use legislation, such as help on printing, searching and downloading acts and regulations.
• Secondary Materials Help
  Help on how to navigate and use secondary materials, such as help on printing, locating organisation home pages and searching sites.
• Australian Taxation Office Rulings and Determinations Help
  Help on how to navigate and use the Australian Taxation Office Rulings and Determinations databases.
• Australian Treaties Library Help
  Help on the Australian Treaties Library.
• Downloading Help
  Help on viewing an entire act or set of regulations as well as cases, and downloading files for printing.

• AustLII Toolbar Help
  Describes how to install/uninstall and configure the AustLII Toolbar for the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser and the Netscape, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey Suite and Mozilla Firefox web browsers on supported operating systems.
  
  

Law Reform Commissions

• AustLII portal

News on the Web

• News Limited 
• Sydney Morning Herald 
• ABC 
• Dominion Post 
• National Business Review 
• New Zealand Herald

Overseas websites 

European Union

• Europa European Commission Taxation and Customs Union – aims to disseminate information on the Commission's work in the areas of taxation and the customs union

United Kingdom

• BAILII OpenLaw Project – Tax Law – Landmark UK Tax Cases
• HM Revenue and Customs  - HMRC is responsible for collecting the bulk of tax revenue, as well as paying Tax Credits and Child Benefits, and strengthening the UK's frontiers.
• HM Treasury 
• TaxAid – UK Charity providing free independent and condidential tax advice to people who cannot afford to pay a professional adviser
• Taxation Web  - leading independent dedicated tax website
• Tribunal Service – focuses on tax related tribunals

• UK Taxation Directory - independently compiled catalogue of websites and material of potential interest to tax professionals and others seeking on-line information on UK tax matters.  

United States

• Cornell University Law School – Legal Information Institute
• Cornell University – Wex Legal Dictionary & Encyclopaedia
• FindLaw US Supreme Court Opinions
• Inland Revenue Service
• Meriam Library Accounting & Taxation Websites
• Locating Lawyers (including Corporate Counsel)
• United States Department of the Treasury 
• United States Tax Court 
• United States Tax Net Site: Tax Links  
• University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Law & Tax websites – this web site no longer exists – there is a re-direct to: Government Information at Polk Library

Parliamentary material

• Federal Ministers Second Reading Speeches
• Explanatory memoranda
• Bills

Specific taxation information

• Australian Taxation Law Library 
• Australian Taxation Office

Theses

• Australasian Digital Theses Program

Working Papers

• University of Melbourne Department of Economics Working Papers
• ANU Centre for Economics Policy Research Discussion Papers
• Social Science Research Network