Thomson Reuters Checkpoint

What do you like best?

I've used this software in my current job and during my time in school and it has been an absolute life saver when it comes to finding tax law and other relevant materials. If you're looking for tax regs or other information to back up your findings, this is one of the most useful software out there to gather all information into an easy to use place when searching certain words. It also helps by adding boolen functions so you can summarize your searches very well and try to pinpoint what you're looking for.

What do you dislike?

As with anything that looks over tax documents, the information you receive sometimes isn't always useful and the software does not help too much at times. Sometimes the stars next to certain items are not always what you're looking for and you won't always know you've selected the wrong item until you're 15 IRC pages deep into a research project.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you're looking to help add value to your clients through tax positions you're not certain about, it's one of the best ways to do so. In the field of Tax research, it's unbeaten.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

When you're interested in looking up specific regulations for Tax research, Checkpoint is extremely useful and one of the best research services out there. It is helpful when you're looking up areas of tax law that are not that clear and it puts all the tax court cases you need into a summarized place. I really appreciated the Boolean functions that checkpoint offers, it really helped me summarize down what I'm looking for much easier.