This handout is not meant as a how-to guide to tax research, but instead is a guide to the tax materials held by the Law Library. There are many books and articles on how to perform tax research. Their databases are constantly expanding, so always check them before concluding that the Library lacks some material.
Legislative histories can be very time consuming to compile and read.
Compiled histories of tax legislation are available. These documents are available in the Library in both electronic, microform, and paper formats. As always the online systems should be your sources of last resort. The Law Library owns the CIS indexes covering 1970 through the present. The Robeson Library owns the pre-1970 CIS indexes which cover Congressional publications from 1789 through 1970.