American Taxation Association

The 22nd annual American Taxation Association (ATA) midyear conference will be held in Denver, Colorado, on February 19-20, 2010. There will be four research sessions. They are the 16th Journal of the American Taxation Association (JATA) Conference and the ATA Midyear Meeting Legal Research session, held concurrently on February 19th; a session devoted to new faculty and/or doctoral student research held on February 20th; and a session devoted to research-in-process held on February 20th. Details about each session along with specific submission requirements are included below.

SPECIFIC DETAILS/REQUIREMENTS FOR EACH RESEARCH SESSION

JATA Conference – The JATA Conference will feature four papers using archival, analytical, behavioral, experimental, or field study research methods. Papers submitted to the conference will not automatically be considered for publication in JATA. You are free to submit the paper to any journal. A paper under review (or being revised for resubmission) at another journal as of the conference submission deadline may not be submitted. Papers already submitted to JATA may be submitted to the conference.  The submission deadline is October 2, 2009. See the JATA Conference call for papers for further information.

ATA Legal Research Session–The ATA Legal Research Session will feature three papers using legal tax research methods. All manuscripts will automatically be considered for publication in The ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research. The submission deadline is November 1, 2009. See the ATA Midyear Legal Research call for papers for further information.

New Faculty/Doctoral Student Research Session - This session provides new faculty and doctoral students an excellent opportunity to gain exposure by presenting their research in a conference setting and to receive constructive feedback on their work. In order for a paper to qualify for the New Faculty/ Doctoral Student Research Session, at least one author must have started their first tenure-track faculty position during the 2006-07 academic-year or later or be a doctoral student.

We invite authors to submit research papers and research-in-process papers. Research-in-process must be sufficiently developed to allow informed feedback (e.g., well developed background and theory, clearly stated hypotheses, and planned statistical analysis).  Doctoral students are invited to submit papers based on their dissertation or other working papers.  Papers already accepted for publication prior to the selection announcement date are ineligible; submission of papers close to publication acceptance is discouraged.  Papers submitted for this session may also be submitted to either the JATA Conference or the ATA Legal Research Session. The ATA will partially support doctoral students who have papers accepted for this session; the registration fee will be waived and one night’s lodging at the hotel will be provided.

The submission deadline is November 1, 2009.

Research-in-process Session – This session provides all researchers an opportunity to present research-in-process. Research-in-process must be sufficiently developed to allow informed feedback (e.g., well developed background and theory, clearly stated hypotheses, and planned statistical analysis). Papers that will be submitted to a journal prior to the submission deadline are not eligible. We encourage submission of a variety of papers including those that examine new topics, new or seldom seen methods of research, new data sets, etc. that might appeal to our audience of tax enthusiasts.  This session aims to provide authors with relevant and timely feedback and the audience exposure to cutting edge research.

The submission deadline is December 1, 2009.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR THE NEW FACULTY/DOCTORAL STUDENT AND RESEARCH-IN-PROCESS SESSIONS

Submission - Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format. Because a blind review process will be used to evaluate manuscripts, the cover page should be submitted as a separate Word or PDF file to preserve anonymity. With the exception of the cover page, the identity of the author(s) should be deleted from the files. Files should be transmitted as email attachments to Stacie LaPlante at slaplante@terry.uga.edu. Please indicate that the submission is to be considered for the conference by including “ATA Midyear Meeting submission” in the subject line of the email. In addition, please indicate in the email the following:

1:  Research session for which the paper is being submitted (i.e., New faculty or Research-in-process);
2:  In the case of papers submitted to the New Faculty/Doctoral student session, whether the paper has also been submitted to either the JATA Conference or the Legal Research session.

All accepted papers will be made available to conference participants in advance of the midyear meeting through the ATA web site.

QUESTIONS

Questions regarding the JATA conference session should be sent to Richard Sansing at JATA@tuck.dartmouth.edu.

Questions regarding the Legal Research session should be sent to Susan Anderson at andersonse@appstate.edu.

Questions regarding other research sessions should be sent to Stacie LaPlante at slaplante@terry.uga.edu.