COMPUTERIZED FEDERAL INCOME TAX RESEARCH AND RETURN PREPARATION

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide graduate students with the skills needed to research federal income tax issues and commit the result of their research into a professional work product. The research skills will be developed utilizing computer resources, such as CD-ROMs or Internet on line resource services. The students will also be asked to break up into groups and will "present" complicated tax issues provided by the instructor. One group will represent the "IRS" and the other group will represent the "Taxpayer." They will present their position in a "mock court" environment with the other students acting as the "jury" and the instructor taking the role of the "judge." The course work will be completed with the computerized preparation of one or two income tax returns on situation presented by the instructor.