American Taxation Association

The American Taxation Association (ATA) was founded in 1974 and joined the American Accounting Association (AAA) in 1978 as the Tax Section of the AAA. Memberships and student memberships are open to persons with an interest in tax education and research. Please see the ATA objectives to learn more about our goals. Under the guidance of President Hughlene Burton, the ATA's committees provide a wide variety of services to the ATA membership. For more information please read Dr. Burton's remarks at the annual meeting and see the Committees page for ways to get involved.

News & Announcements

You may now receive regular updates from this website using an RSS reader. Examples of RSS readers are popular email clients, like Outlook, or webased readers available through Google, My Yahoo, or NetVibes. Follow your RSS reader's instructions and copy this URL into your RSS feed: http://www.aaahq.org/ata. (posted August 20, 2010)

Information about the 2011 Doctoral Tax Consortium is now available, please pass this information on to students you think will be interested in attending. (posted August 18, 2010)

Powerpoint slides used by presenters and discussants during the ATA Tax Program at the AAA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA are now available. (posted August 14, 2010).

A combined call for papers for the 2011 ATA Midyear Meeting is now available. (posted July 5, 2010)

Some photos from The 2010 Midyear Meeting and JATA Conference are now available; many thanks to Ken Porter for all his assistance with taking photos, editing captions, and formating all the photos into an upload-ready webpage. (posted May 6, 2010)

The Trustees of The Southern Federal Tax Institute invite all full-time law school and business school tax professors to attend their 2010 Institute tuition free. In addition, for full-time professors unable to attend, a complimentary CD-ROM of all SFTI outlines 1998-2010 will be available after the Institute. To register for the Institute, to obtain the CD-ROM, or for further information, please email info@sfti.org. (posted May 5, 2010)

The ATA Trustees have approved the creation of the ATA Memorial Fund fbo Doctoral Education. We grieve the loss of Marty Escoffier, and this general memorial fund will permit ATA members to donate in his memory now and in memory of other losses in the future. (posted March 19, 2010)

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