About Checkpoint Catalyst Library

Checkpoint Catalyst is a library designed for the tax professional to research new or complex topics.
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You can search the Catalyst Library sources from the Table of Contents screen or Search screen.
Catalyst Library uses embedded productivity tools that provides benefits to researchers:
  • Goes beyond the law and regulations, and provides expert analysis and practical guidance on complex tax issues.
  • Allows the researcher to read a high-level overview, find a quick answer, and drill down into detailed analysis.
  • Works with opinion-oriented treatises to give a complete picture, editorial analysis, practical tools, and multistate charts.

Categories

The Catalyst Library library is organized into categories containing topics essential for tax practice. Each topic includes a self-contained topical discussion with the following features:
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Quick Look:  topic number 000, such as 102:000
  • Background: topic number 050, such as 102:050
  • Subtopics: topic number 100, such as 102:100
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  • If a topic includes state coverage, the paragraph number begins with the topic number followed by 1000 (such as 102:1000).
  • Individual state subtopics are identified with the two-letter state abbreviation following the topic number (such as 102CA:1000).
  • You can open the full topic, which contains all related sub-topics, or open individual sub-topics on their own.