AEM 4875
Low-Income Taxpayer Law & Accounting Practicum
This is a one-semester experiential course where students learn about low-income taxpayer issues as well as prepare individual income tax returns and offer tax advice for low-income taxpayers in the Tompkins County community. In addition to providing a valuable service to the community, students develop their professional skills and client service skills as well as proficiency with a professional tax preparation software product and a deeper understanding of technical tax issues.
Topics
- Connect and extend knowledge from prior courses and/or training to provide excellent tax law and tax accounting services to low-income taxpayers in the Tompkins County community.
- Explain complex tax issues in an understandable way to clients.
- Identify and carry out distinct roles in an inter-professional standard, reflect on personal progress, and identify lessons for future work.
- Establish personal learning goals considering relevant professional standards, reflect on personal progress, and identify lessons for future work.
- Elicit community partner and client experience in working with the clinic. Analyze success in meeting their goals.
- Examine differences, seek to acquire cultural knowledge as appropriate, and practice appropriate interaction with community partners and clients.
Official roster learning outcomes
Prerequisites & course information
AEM 2210 or AEM 2225 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027
- Catalogue entry ↗
Catalogue variants
- Low-Income Taxpayer Law & Accounting Practicum · 3.0 · Undergraduate