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There are 2 ways to be notified when changes are made to this website:

• Subscribe to a feed (RSS) in a reader
• Subscribe to a feed via e-mail delivered by Google Feedburner

Feeds available from our website:

Topic	by RSS	by email
» All news items
Appraisers (property tax)
Beer and/or wine tax
Business income tax
Business/ag. (property tax)
Cigarette and/or tobacco tax
Classes, meetings, events
Decisions, other resolutions
Draft forms and forms specifications
Due dates
Forms, instructions (new, updated, or alerts)
Fuels tax and/or IFTA
GIS (property tax)
Homeowners (property tax)
Income tax withholding
Individual income tax
Legal - proposed, temporary rules
News releases
Online learning
Online payment or online filing services
Property tax
Publications (new or updated)
Reports and statistics
Sales and/or use tax
Sales-related taxes
Tech., software services (property tax)

What is RSS?

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is the technical format used to distribute and gather online content from sources across the Web, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs.

What is a feed?

A Web feed is the electronic format used to send users frequently updated content, typically from Web pages or links to Web pages. The feeds deliver automatic updates via a Web portal, a news reader, or e-mail. Content distributors syndicate their Web feeds, allowing users to sign up or subscribe to be updated on topics that interest them. Sources that provide feeds generally notify subscribers with short summaries rather than sending the full content of the updates.

Many people prefer having these updates go directly to a feed reader or “aggregator” so they don’t have to remember to check each site they subscribe to manually. This way, Internet users can streamline their online experience by subscribing to as many feeds as they like and collecting or “aggregating” the information in one place to read at their convenience. Subscribing to feeds makes it possible to review or scan a large amount of online content in a short amount of time.

How do I read feeds?

There are many choices for browsing and subscribing to feeds. Feeds can be read as text, viewed as video, or listened to as audio. Feed reading applications, also known as “news aggregators,” read mostly text. There are also readers that work exclusively on mobile devices. Aggregators or feed readers combine the contents of multiple Web feeds for display on a single screen. A typical feed reader will display your feeds and the number of new (unread) entries within each of those feeds.

Some feed readers require a small fee, but many are free. One way to find them is to do a search for “feed reader” or “feed aggregator” through your favorite search site. A few popular free feed readers include: Google reader, Liferea (for Unix and Linux), NewsFire (for Mac OS X), OmeaReader, and SharpReader.

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Last updated Feb. 8, 2011