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Tax Resources

Tax Policy Center (Urban Institute and Brookings Institution)
The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center aims to provide independent analyses of current and longer-term tax issues and to communicate its analyses to the public and to policymakers in a timely and accessible manner.
U.S. Tax Code
Title 26-Internal Revenue Code
IRS Glossary
List of terms and definitions

OpenStax at Rice University
OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University that provide free textbooks.

Listed below are the filling types available. You may want to refer to a description of SEC forms.

DEF 14A- Proxy Statement (Board of Directors appointments, changes, etc)
10-K Annual Report to the SEC
10-KA Amended Annual Report
10-Q Quarterly Report
8-K Changes report that could affect the financial health of the company
6-K Non-US companies listed on one of the US stock exchanges report similar to 8-K
20-F Non-US company annual report to SEC
13-D Insider shares traded by board
13-FE Institutional Holders' trades
14-D1 Tender offer or Acquisition of another company
14-D9 Response to tender offer
S-1 New Issue Filing, often known as the Prospectus for an Initial Public Offering (IPO)
Form SB-Small Business IPO

New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
The world's largest stock exchange, in terms of market capitalization, which trades over 3,000 common stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is the benchmark; price weighted index of the U.S. Stock Exchange is the most widely quoted U.S. index.
American Stock Exchange
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Deals with a variety of exchange traded financial instruments that derive their value from stocks, indexes, interest rates, commodities, or currencies.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
U.S. Equities (NYSE)