Law and Tax Information on the Web

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TAX INFORMATION

Internal Revenue Service: http://www.irs.gov

Kentucky Revenue Cabinet: http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/revenue/revhome.htm

Please note that the forms are available in Portable Document Format (PDF). To use these forms, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader software installed on your computer. This software is free and is available from www.adobe.com/

FEDFORMS: http://www.fedforms.gov

FIRSTGOV: http://www.firstgov.com

• Federal Benefits and Grants (Social Security, Medicare, Grants)
• Links to government Websites
• Links to tax forms and E-File site
  

IRS e-file for Individual Taxpayers: http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/elec_svs/efile-ind.html

• IRS e-file through a tax professional
• TeleFile using a touch-tone telephone (Form 1040EZ Only)
  • Make electronic payments with a debit card or a credit card
• IRS e-file using a personal computer
• Costs vary between $7.95 and $24.95
• Make electronic payments with a debit card or a credit card
• Some companies allow you to also file state taxes at the same time

State Tax Information from all 50 States: http://www.sm-b.com/nn/statinfo.htm

About Taxes: http://taxes.about.com/money/taxes/mbody.htm

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CONSUMER INFORMATION

Social Security Administration: http://www.ssa.gov/

Insurance Companies and Corporation Information: http://www.ambest.com/index.html

• Insurance ratings and financial stability information -- search by name of company (Requires free registration)

Edgar--Securities and Exchange Commission: http://www.sec.gov/
Contains submissions by companies who are required by law to file forms with the SEC. This includes the annual report on Form 10-K or 10-KSB, which contains much of the same information found in annual reports to shareholders. The site maintains publicly available filings submitted from January 1994 to the present. EDGAR filings are posted to this site 24 hours after the date of filing.

Government Agencies: http://www.wku.edu/Library/dlps/gov_law.htm

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LAW AND LEGAL INFORMATION

Legal comprehensive sites are sites where legally trained professionals have gathered an extensive number of legal sources generally organized in a way that is useful to legal professionals. Depending upon what you are searching for, they are often the best place to get started.

WKU Law Collection Website: http://www.wku.edu/Library/dlps/lawlib.htm

• Contains Web links to Legal Resource

Washburn University Law Library: http://www.washlaw.edu

• Wide variety of business and law resources
• Directories
• Federal and State law cases, statutes, etc.

Cornell Legal Information Institute http://www.law.cornell.edu/

Findlaw http://www.findlaw.com/

• Findlaw Guide
• Cases, statutes, and administrative regulations on Findlaw (both Federal and State)
• Forms (including tax forms)
• Findlaw is searchable

American Association of Law Librarians http://www.aallnet.org/research

• Legal directories
• Law journals
• Law library online catalogs
• Law schools
• Legal organizations
• Law-related discussion lists

'Lectric Law Library http://www.lectlaw.com/
This site has all kinds of serious legal information, presented in a humorous fashion.

Kentucky Legal Research: http://www.louisville.edu/library/law/kyguide2.html
Produced by the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law Library

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LOCAL LAW INFORMATION

Kentucky Revised Statutes http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/statrev/frontpg.htm

• Find by Title and Chapter
• Search

Kentucky Administrative Regulations: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/frntpage.htm

Bowling Green Code of Ordinances: http://www.bgky.org/

Seattle Public Library's Municipal Codes Online http://www.spl.org/govpubs/municode.html

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SEARCH ENGINES

FASTSEARCH http://www.alltheweb.com

• Contains "Advanced" and "Help" options
• Use plus sign + for required words and phrases
• Quotation marks " " needed for phrases
• If no plus signs or quotation marks are used, the search engine will look for ANY of your terms
  

Lawcrawler: Click on link from Findlaw or open http://www.lawcrawler.com

• Boolean AND, OR searching

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ACCURACY

While some look to the Internet as an innovative vehicle for communication, the Court continues to warily and wearily view it largely as one large catalyst for rumor, innuendo, and misinformation. So as to not mince words, the Court reiterates that this so-called Web provides no way of verifying the authenticity of the alleged contentions that Plaintiff wishes to rely upon in his Response to Defendant's Motion. There is no way Plaintiff can overcome the presumption that the information he discovered on the Internet is inherently untrustworthy. Anyone can put anything on the Internet. No web-site is monitored for accuracy and nothing contained therein is under oath or even subject to independent verification absent underlying documentation. Moreover, the Court holds no illusions that hackers can adulterate the content on any web-site from any location at any time.
--St. Clair vs. Johnny's Oyster and Shrimp, Inc., 76 F.Supp.2d 773

Last updated 3/7/01