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Upcoming Events
Summer Session Starts Monday May 12th
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Orientation for new students May 12, Room 103 at 3:30 REQUIRED
Tax Litigation Training Registration DEADLINE coming up!!
Priority Registration for students ends on March 31. Training dates are August 18 - 22.
Villanova Tax Training
Starting this August, Villanova’s Graduate Tax Program and its Federal Tax Clinic are joining together to offer a one week intensive training program designed to teach how to handle a case in the United States Tax Court. The program is made possible through a grant from the Community Tax Law Project Foundation and the financial support of the Villanova Law School. The tax litigation program will be held at Villanova Law School the week of August 18, 2008, 8:30 - 5:00. The program, which is patterned on similar training offered to new lawyers by the Office of Chief Counsel, will take the students through a complete Tax Court trial including calendar call, pretrial conference with the Court and motions practice. Instructors are expected to include Chief Counsel attorneys, two Tax Court Special Trial Judges, private practitioners and professors from Villanova Law School, all of whom have extensive trial experience in the Tax Court.
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Note: New Graduate Tax Program Location
The Graduate Tax Program office is now located in the ANNEX building directly outside of the upper side entrance to the law school.
New Graduate Tax Program Director
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Leslie M. Book
Professor of Law
Director, Graduate Tax Program
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Overview
The Villanova University interdisciplinary Graduate Tax Program is conducted (in the evenings)
jointly by the School of Law and the Villanova School of Business. Students
are drawn from both the legal and accounting professions and interact, in and
out of the classroom, in an educational dimension that broadens and sharpens
their understanding both of federal tax law and procedure, and of the interests
and aims of the opposite discipline.
In addition, because the full-time and adjunct faculty includes both
attorneys and accountants who specialize in taxation, the substantive course
content is flavored by their various backgrounds and approaches. The end result
is a rich program that provides students with a working understanding of basic
concepts, the practical application of tax principles, and current tax policy issues for use in the
planning, compliance and controversy areas of tax practice.
The Program is designed and presented with the expectation that its graduates
will emerge from it with significantly enhanced practical skills for issue
identification and problem solving in the tax area, together with a heightened
sensitivity to their professional role in the tax system and the role of that
system in individual, commercial and financial affairs. Professional
responsibility in tax practice is stressed, and students are encouraged to use
the digital research and communication facilities of the law school.
The course requirements for the attorney’s Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree
and the accountant’s Master of Taxation (M.T.) degree are very similar. While
some of the elective offerings may have more appeal to members of one profession
than the other, many courses, particularly those involving current planning and
transactional issues, have a class composition that contains the appropriate mix
of each profession necessary for a meaningful interrelationship between the two.
The present enrollment of approximately 250 degree candidates strikes a
desirable balance between a program large enough to offer a broad selection of
courses, yet not so large that the individual student is lost in the crowd.
In addition, certificate programs in Estate Planning and Employee Benefits
provide qualified professionals with an intense course of study in these two
speciality areas. They are separately described below.
Finally, qualified attorneys and accountants are permitted to enroll as
auditors in regular courses in the Graduate Tax curriculum.
For additional information about the Program email Linda Vines, call 610-519-4533, or call toll-free 1-888-GRAD-TAX.
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