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Objectives

  • To foster the dissemination and publication of taxation materials.
  • To promote tax education in areas such as curricula, education-related materials, graduate tax programs, and accreditation.
  • To promote tax research in areas such as policy, law, planning, compliance, and economics.
  • To encourage the interaction of tax academics, practitioners, and professional organizations.

Section Member Benefits

  • The ATA Section publishes two premier journals.  The Journal of the American Taxation promotes the study of, and the acquisition of knowledge about, taxation.  The Journal of Legal Tax Research publishes creative and innovative studies that employ legal research methodologies.
  • The ATA midyear meeting includes a Doctoral Consortium and Teaching and Curriculum Conference, teaching and research sessions, and the opportunity to earn CPE, volunteer and network.
  • The ATA recognizes member contributions through awards such as Ray Sommerfield Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, ATA Teaching Innovation Award, the ATA Outstanding Service Award, ATA/PricewaterhouseCoopers Outstanding Dissertation Award, and the ATA Tax Manuscript Award.
  • The ATA offers the opportunity for professional development and the opportunity for interaction of tax academics, practitioners, and professional organizations. 

Thank you for deciding to join the American Taxation Association (ATA) Section.  To join the ATA Section, you must be a current member of the American Accounting Association.

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Letter from the President

To ATA Members and Visitors,

The American Taxation Association (ATA) is home to a broad group of members with interests in tax research, policy, practice, and education.  We welcome you to join us in our mission.

These are unusual times.  Our last in-person meeting was in February in Fort Worth.  Thank you to Jenny Brown, Kerry Inger, Dan Lynch for their efforts in organizing their portions of the conference weekend, as well as thanks to all those on their committees.  Then, all of a sudden, the world went virtual, with the Annual Meeting moved on-line.  But even in a virtual setting, the ATA had...

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ATA Memorial Fund

The ATA created this fund to provide a vehicle for ATA members to contribute in memory of deceased ATA members and friends.

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Tax Career Center

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ATA News

John Doyle Phillips, Jr.
August 7, 1958 - May 15, 2020

It is with great sadness that we share the news that John Phillips passed away on Friday, May 15, 2020. John received his BS and MPA from The University of Texas at Austin, and his PhD from The University of Iowa. He spent his entire career as a faculty member at the University of Connecticut, from 1999 until his early retirement in 2016.

John was a gifted researcher, teacher, and mentor. He was a recipient of the American Taxation Association/PricewaterhouseCoopers Outstanding Dissertation Award, the American Taxation Association (ATA)/Deloitte Innovation in Teaching Award, and served as the editor of The Journal of American Taxation Association. In 2015, he received the ATA’s Ray Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator Award and directed the funds to help establish an endowment for the accounting PhD program at UConn. 

Please hold Amy Dunbar, and the rest of John’s family, in your thoughts. 

To read the John's obituary please CLICK HERE.

Amy has asked that in lieu of flowers you consider a donation to the John D. Phillips Doctoral Award https://uconn.networkforgood.com/causes/7792-the-john-d-phillips-doctoral-student-award.