Searching Multistate Sections

The State & Local practice area contains two sectional or specialty search templates that allow you to conduct research on specific tax topics across states. These are the Multistate Corporate Income and Multistate Sales & Use sectional templates. You can subscribe to either or both products. The procedure for performing a sectional search is very similar to that for searching multiple states. 

To perform a sectional search:

1.  Click Search on the menu bar.
2. Select the State & Local practice area.

3. On the left navigation bar, select Corporate Income Tax Reporter or Sales & Use Tax Reporter.

   The Search RIA State & Local Tax Reporter screen (for Corporate Income or Sales & Use, as you selected) appears. As part of your subscription, all states are available for selection. You cannot subscribe to individual jurisdictions within a sectional.

4. Select check boxes in front of the states you want to search.

5. Click Next.

   The search template displays the Tax and Document types common to the states you selected, as well as an optional Keyword field.

6. Select one or more tax types and document types.
7. Optionally, enter terms to describe your search in the Keywords field.

8. Click Search.

   The Search Results screen appears with a default view of either All Documents, Source List, or Table of Contents. You can toggle between these views by clicking the appropriate link. To further define search results, the Source List and Table of Contents views let you choose View Hits Only or View All Results (in the document tools).The Table of Contents format also has Display Level options (1, 2, 3) that let you expand or collapse the folders shown. You can manage default settings in the Search/Display section of the Options screen.

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