• Find your research areas quickly — the tab organization helps you find the information you need quickly and efficiently. Simply click on a tab to reveal its full menu of research documents.
  
• Keep up to date on new developments — CCH reports on Congress, the IRS, state governments and court releases that affect federal and state taxes every day. This material is immediately available in Tax Research Network through Tax Tracker News^TM and quickly integrated into explanations.
  
• Go directly to source material — Research documents are well-organized and include tools to help you locate related news, full-text source documents and analysis quickly and easily.
  
• Search the most useful publications — Tax Research NetWork can easily be customized to put publications that help you the most right at your fingertips. Your “Favorite Research Publications” can be set up and directly accessed from the “My CCH” tab.
  
• Save time on state tax research — Smart Charts^TM allow you to quickly and easily chart state tax issues in one jurisdiction or compare tax treatments across multiple tax jurisdictions. Convenient display options ensure easy integration with your workflow. Plus, you even have the choice to export your Chart results into either Microsoft^® Word or Microsoft^® Excel.
  
• Learn right from your desktop — CCH provides world-class training and CPE credits through the CCH Knowledge Center. Our experienced consultants and trainers bring years of industry experience to each online course to help you maximize the effectiveness of your CCH research and software products.
  

• Maximize your research efficiency — Powerful search tools ensure that you get the answers you need quickly and reliably. Tax Thesaurus is one of these tools that ensures that you locate all the relevant documents — without the need to enter all the possible tax terms separately. It even finds singular and plurals automatically, too.
  
• Enhance your results — Hundreds of Practice Aids, Lookup Tables, Quick Answer Charts and Calculators are available on the Tax Tools tab to help take your research to the next level:

Practice aids and Lookup Tables include:

• FinEst Calcs^TM
  
• Client Letter Toolkit
  
• Depreciation Toolkit
  
• Federal Sales Tax Deduction Toolkit
  
• Interactive Research Aids
  
• Topic Navigator
  
• Tax Calendar
  
• ZIPsales^® Lookup
  
• Estate Planning Election & Compliance Toolkit
  
• IRS Actuarial Factors

Quick Answer Charts include:

• Federal Tax Rates and Tables
  
• Multistate Quick Answer Charts
  
• Multistate Sales Tax Smart Charts
  
• Healy & Schadewald’s Annual Revenue Department Surveys (Sales Tax) Smart Charts
  
• Yetter’s Drop Shipments Survey Smart Charts

Calculators include:

• Federal Withholding Calculator
  
• IRA Comparison Calculator
  
• Paycheck Calculator
  
• Payroll Bonus Calculator (Aggregate Method)
  
• Tax Rates/Phase-Out Calculator

• Search without interrupting your workflow — CCH@Hand is the powerful productivity tool on Tax Research NetWork that lets you do your tax research without opening a browser or interrupting your workflow. It is included as part of every Tax Research NetWork subscription.
  
  
  
  • CCH@Hand lets you quickly perform your tax research with one-click access through the CCH@Hand console. You can search multiple sources simultaneously all from one location. You’ll even have convenient access to your CCH^® Tax Tracker News^TM and other key functionality – with no log-in required.
    
  • CCH@Hand lets you research faster by searching Google^TM, your desktop, your full CCH subscription and even key industry websites simultaneously – without leaving your current document.
    
  • The CCH@Hand Topical Index finder allows you to search all content by topic. All of your subscribed Topical Indices are merged into a single topical tree for quick access to the topics you need.
    
  • CCH@Hand provides revolutionary integration with Microsoft^® Office documents. You get one-click access from Microsoft^® Office 2003 programs – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook – to research answers in Tax Research NetWork. And you can seamlessly integrate the results of your research into your Microsoft^® document.