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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. To learn more about our objectives, please see ATA objectives. Under the guidance of the President Shelley Rhoades-Catanach, the ATA's committees provide a wide variety of services to the ATA membership. See the Committees page for more information.
News & Announcements
The Call for Papers for the 2010 JATA Conference is now on the ATA website. (posted 7/1/2009).
The Call for Papers for the 2010 ATA Midyear Meeting Legal Research session is now on the ATA website. (posted 6/23/2009).
The slate of nominees (to be voted on at the August 2009 ATA Meeting) has been posted. (posted 6/14/09)
The 2009 ATA Syllabus Exchange is now on the ATA website. (posted 6/14/09)
Updated information about the KPMG Professor Residency Program is now available. (posted 6/16/09)
Volunteer for 2009-2010 ATA service! Please feel free to list multiple areas of potential service, and ATA President-Elect Lillian Mills will choose the area where she thinks you can do the most good. Please volunteer (click here to complete the volunteer form) by March 27, 2009. The President-Elect hopes to assign committee chairs by April 15 and populate the committees by May 15. (posted 3/2/09)
KPMG has developed two ten-minute Tax Technical Videos to support classroom instruction of a tax technical topic. For more information, click here. (posted 2/6/09)
The 2009 JATA Conference papers are now available on the ATA website. (posted 1/31/09)
The Call for Nominations ATA Officers, Trustees, and Publications Committee Members is now on the ATA website. Nominations are due by February 13, 2009. (posted 1/26/09)
The Invitation & Program for the 2009 Information Security Symposium is now available. (posted 1/26/09)
The program for the 2009 University of North Carolina Tax Symposium is now available. (posted 1/16/09)
Information about the 2009 Ernst & Young JATA Conference Travel Grants for PhD Students is now available. The application deadline is January 30, 2009. (posted 1/6/09)
Online Registration for the ATA Midyear Meeting is now available. You may register online, or mail or fax your registration. Please click here for more information about the ATA Midyear Meeting. (posted 12/1/08)
Online Exchange of Assessment Materials--Share Your Methods! The ATA Graduate and Undergraduate Assessment and Accreditation Issues Committees and Teaching Resources Committee have been given the charge to develop an online exchange of assessment materials that are being used in tax courses. Please click here for more information. (posted 11/2/08)
A Call for Nominations for Editor of the “ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research” (JLTR) has been posted on the ATA website. (posted 10/22/08)
ATA/KPMG Tax Doctoral Consortium Announcement and Student Application are now available (posted 10/13/08)
Please submit your tax syllabi for the ATA Tax Syllabus Exchange. Please click here for information. (posted 9/30/2008).
The Calls for Papers for the 2009 ATA Midyear Meeting research sessions are now on the ATA website. This includes calls for the New Faculty and Doctoral Research session, Legal Research session, and the NEW Innovative Tax Research session. (posted 9/30/2008).
Deloitte Dbriefs U. Great resource for tax profs. All webcasts now available on demand!
Toby Stock is now the Editor of Advances in Taxation. See the press release from Emerald Publishing. (posted 9/15/2008)
The Call for Papers for the 2009 JATA Conference is now on the ATA website. (posted 6/18/2008).
Assessment of Learning Survey Results (updated through November 2007) are now available (posted 3/27/08)
The VITA Best Practices Report of the ATA Pro-Bono Tax Services Task Force is now available on the ATA website. (posted October 20, 2007)
The Evolution of the ATA: From Orphans, to Outlaws, to Respectability, by D. Larry Crumbley, originally published in the Fall 1987 issue of JATA, is available on the ATA website. This is a very interesting look at the ATA's origins! (posted September 14, 2007)
Methods, Topics, and Issues in Tax Education: A Year 2001 Perspective, an ATA Teaching Monograph edited by Janet A. Meade, is now available on the ATA website. Also see the new "Other Teaching Resources" section. (posted August 23, 2007)
Tax Analysts' offer to ATA members - new annual application (posted June 26, 2007)
Updated Syllabus Exchange is available. (posted Feb. 11, 2007)
Read about the KPMG Professor Residency Program.
New Tax Case Exchange is available. Check it out.
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