CCH Tax Research NetWork
Accounting 307
Summer Semester, 2000

This handout provides basic instructions concerning the log on and searching procedures for the CCH Federal and State Tax Service. It is a web-based service provided by the CCH. Also there are instructions for doing basic searching, hyperlink to documents, downloading and printing of documents in the Help Topics section of this service.

Log on procedures.

    1. Log on to the Lehigh home page
    2. Click on the Libraries' button (located on the upper right of the homepage).
    3. Click on then click on Electronic Resources, then Databases.
    4. Scroll down to the CCH Internet Tax Research Network and click on it.
    5. CCH Tax Research NetWork page appears. Click on the "Enter" button. (A "Logging on" informational page appears. Just ignore it as it is a passthrough page.)
    6. CCH Tax Research NetWork home page appears
    7. At this point you may view the ‘folders’, i.e., My CCH, Federal or State, search for documents and/or read today’s tax news.
    8. When finished, you may click on the "Log off" button.
    9. A "Log Off" message appears. Click on the home page or back buttons to return to your home page.
Search procedures.
You have options for searching the folders that are available on this service. These are "Simple", "Power", Citation and Citator. The "Simple" and "Power" searches are the most frequently used options. Citation is for searching court decisions, laws, committee reports, CCH’s explanations and CCH’s annotations. The Citator is for search for items that cite a particular court decision, laws, committee reports, CCH’s explanations and CCH’s annotations.

To search for an item:

    1. Follow the Log on procedures.
    2. Select the folder to search: My CCH, Federal or State.
    3. Select the section(s) and/or item(s) within that folder to search.
    4. Note: You have with in a given folder, i.e., news, regulations, courts decisions, annotations, IRC code, etc., to select for locating information on your topic.
    5. Type your search terms.
    6. For "Simple" search: follow steps #2,3, and 5, click on "Search" button.
    7. For "Power" search: follow steps #2,3, and 5, click on the "Search Options" button, pick appropriate options, i.e., Boolean logic, and click on "Search" button.
    8. Results box appears.
    9. Scroll down the list. Either select the appropriate document to display or start new search.
    10. Either print the document and/or download it to a floppy disk. NOTE: The long documents should be DOWNLOADED due their length. Use the "Export to file" option on CCH or use the "Save As" command under your browser’s File command.
General Comments
    1. CCH Tax Network is IP authenticated. DO NOT USE the new login box that states "Go directly to CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork from your desktop: Click here to download Login Express".
    2. Web version shows the "Tax Day" headlines".
    3. Web version shows the folders available on this service for use by Lehigh faculty, staff and students.
    4. Speed of CCH Tax Service may be slower between 1PM-5PM Monday-Friday! The reason is the heavy use nationwide during those hours.
    5. Use the "Export to file" option or the "Save As" feature in place of "Printing" feature to save long documents. This can be especially true of court decisions, CCH annotations, etc.


Off Campus Connections/ISP Proxy Server
This explains the how to of setting up your computer when you have a non-Lehigh ISP provider. Included are some documents that will provide information on the proxy server. These are available on the Lehigh Computing page. The procedure is:

    1. Open your browser to the Lehigh home page.
    2. Click on the "Computing" button. (This is located in the upper right hand corner of the Lehigh home page.)
    3. Select the "Computing Services" (located at the left side of the page).
    4. Select "Proxy Server" located under the "Off-Campus" heading.
    5. Follow the instructions for setting up the appropriate proxy server for your browser and computer.