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Administrative Guidance

Agency interpretive material — revenue rulings, advisory opinions, and policy statements.

§ I

Introduction

Scope of the Division

Administrative Guidance

78 catalogued

The Division of Administrative Guidance holds the interpretive output of federal and state agencies. The materials are catalogued by issuing body and read for the position the agency has taken.

§ II

What Belongs Here

The materials catalogued in this division.

A division collects materials of a single kind. The following are the working classes of record.

  1. 01

    Revenue rulings and revenue procedures of the Internal Revenue Service

  2. 02

    Advisory opinions of the Securities and Exchange Commission

  3. 03

    Policy statements and bulletins of the federal banking agencies

§ III

Research Notes

How the division is read.

Notes for the reader on how the materials are catalogued and consulted.

  1. 01

    Administrative guidance is read against the statute and regulation it interprets.

  2. 02

    An agency position is recorded as the agency states it; weight is a question for the reader.

§ IV

Featured Authorities

A working selection from the division.

The following are representative entries. They have been catalogued and reviewed; the longer record opens by catalogue search.

  1. Catalogue in preparation

    Securities and Exchange Commission — No-Action Letters

    Securities and Exchange Commission · No-Action Letter (collection)

    Source · SEC Division of Corporation Finance

    VI. Administrative GuidancePlaceholder — record in preparation

§ V

Related Collections

Subjects that draw upon this division.

The following Research Collections gather authority from this division alongside materials from elsewhere in the catalogue.

Collection

Consumer Credit

The federal consumer credit statutes and the regulations that implement them.

Draws from · Statutes · Regulations · Administrative Guidance

Collection

Taxation

The Internal Revenue Code, the Treasury regulations, and the interpretive guidance of the Service.

Draws from · Statutes · Regulations · Administrative Guidance

§ VII

Related Schools

Departments that read this division.

The Schools below draw their reading from this division. Each enters the Library by way of its own bibliography.

§ VIII

Bibliographic Note

How this division is cited.

Guidance is cited by issuing body and document number, with date.

Rev. Rul. 2019-19, 2019-36 I.R.B. 674
Specimen form · Division of Administrative Guidance

§ IX

Within the Library

Divisions that read alongside this one.

Authority does not respect divisional boundaries. The following divisions are consulted together with this one.

§ X

Authority Discovery

Browse this division by metadata.

These indexes are alternative metadata views of the same canonical authority records. They are not separate collections or archives.

Membership

Read the Administrative Guidance division as a member of the Society.

Every member of the Society may read every School of the Academy and every division of the Library. Founding Cohort applications are optional and free, open for 90 days once the Society opens the window, and reviewed by the Office of Administration; admission is a designation only. Society Membership dues are now open, and two certificate programs — the Certificate in Legal Research and the Certificate in Estate Administration — are open for enrollment to active Society Members from the Member Academy desk.

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