Well, with the disappointment of the LA Times Wiki shutting down after just 3 days, it was encouraging to see today (via the TaxProf Blog: http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2005/06/new_tax_wiki.html ) the good news of another large organization with (IMHO) an interesting and potentially successful Wiki. Intuit, the providers of Quicken, Quickbooks, and TurboTax has a Tax Wiki (TaxAlmanac) with nearly 8,000 pages and articles.
In a press release from SmartPros ( http://accounting.smartpros.com/x48497.xml ), dated June 6, 2005, the Wiki was begun as an internally generated Wiki and was just recently released to the public. It already has 2200 registered users (hmmm - now there's a good idea). The tax codes that exist within the Wiki cannot be edited (well, at least not by the users or Intuit).
Note to self: check it out, given the taxpayer reports of the sometimes dubious advice that the IRS rolls out about taxes, why not....?
Intuit's announcement can be found at: http://accountant.intuit.com/practice_resources/taxalmanac.aspx
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