Tips and Practice for Finding and Using
Tax Information on the Internet

Introduction

Basics of 
Information Analysis
Preliminaries
Basic Information Analysis - A Review
Information Analysis - Internet Considerations
From Raw Data to Useful Report

Practice Exercise
Research Topic
Research Steps
Step 1: State the question(s) for which you are seeking information.
Step 2: Conduct a broad search.
Step 3: Conduct a more focused search.
Step 4: Explore and critique the relevant sites found by the search engines.
Step 5: Complete the research.

Tax Research on the Internet
Words of Advice
Tax Links

Summary
Recap
Comments?
Test Your New Knowledge!
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Professor Nellen
College of Business
San Jose State University

Module 5 - Summary

Recap

TO DO: Worksheet Question #7 - Explain the operation of one information analysis technique applicable to Web searching that you learned from this tutorial.

Comments?

Please send any comments you have on this tutorial to Professor Nellen.

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Search Engines and Tools

• Altavista

• Dogpile

• Google

• HotBot

• ixquick

• Lycos

• Mamma

• Microsoft Search

• Search.com

• Yahoo!

• The Scout Report - librarians and educators search the web and select sites of interest to educators and students, and provide the information to interested people.

Articles on Web-Searching Tips and Techniques

• Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web (from the University of South Carolina Beaufort Library)

• Introduction to Search Engines (provided by the Kansas City Public Library, includes a brief description of the major search engines)

• Links to a variety of information about search engines

• Searching the Internet  (quick tips from MSU Bozeman Library)

• Search Engine Watch

• Information from Yahoo

• Using the Web for Research, from the Library at the University of Cincinnati.

TO DO: Worksheet Question #8 - review a few more of the sites uncovered in Module 3 and explain 1) your view on whether e-commerce vendors should collect sales tax, and 2) what additional information you would like to obtain before completing your research.