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International Handbook on Clinical Tax Education: Part III Tax clinics and our students
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Part III Tax clinics and our students
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of appendices
List of abbreviations
Foreword
1. Introduction
Part I. The tax clinic
2. A brief history of tax clinics around the globe
2.1 Key findings
2.2 Introduction
2.3 From humble beginnings
2.4 From east to west
2.5 From south to north
2.6 Conclusion
3. Project administration: how to set up a tax clinic
3.1 Key findings
3.2 Introduction
3.3 The foundations of a clinic
Institutional and/or organisational support
Costs and wider resources
Supervision
Insurance
Data protection
3.4 Clinic design
Student and supervisor recruitment
Educational design
Integration into community (client recruitment)
3.5 Concluding remarks
3.6 Key reading
4. Rationale: tax support for low-income individuals
4.1 Key findings
4.2 Introduction
4.3 Historical context
4.4 The tax charities – what they really do
TaxAid
Tax Help for Older People
Tax clinics
4.5 The tax charities moving forward
4.6 Access to the tax charities
4.7 A rationale for low-income taxpayer support: common tax issues faced by those on a low income
Non-tax issues
Tax complexity
Expansion of self-employment
COVID-19
Late registration and tax returns
Other changes in how people are paid
Incorrect PAYE codes
Pension drawdown
Proliferation of umbrella companies and disguised remuneration schemes
Penalties
Bankruptcy
Digital exemption and assisted digital
Working with HMRC to resolve generic tax issues
4.8 An international call to action
4.9 Concluding remarks
5. Rationale: tax and the poverty interface
5.1 Key findings
5.2 Introduction
5.3 Canvassing the tax and wider social issues addressed by the National Tax Clinic Program
Tax and financial literacy
The unmet need for tax advice in Australia
5.4 Introducing the UNSW Tax and Business Advisory Clinic
5.5 Benefit of tax clinics: Australia and internationally
Opportunities for further research
5.6 Concluding remarks
Part II. Tax clinics and our communities
6. Engagement in the community
6.1 Key findings
6.2 Introduction
6.3 The external stakeholders in CTE
Supporting your local community
Becoming part of the local community
6.4 Concluding remarks
7. Listening to our communities: the Community Tax Law Project as an example of a low-income taxpayer community-focused service provider
7.1 Key findings
7.2 Introduction
7.3 What does a community-focused tax clinic look like?
Mission driven
Community understanding and support
7.4 What populations are you going to serve?
Demographic scope: how do your clients live, work, pray or play?
Resources and limitations
Learn from failures
7.4 What do these populations need or want?
7.5 What specifically does your clinic require to meet these needs and wants?
Community partners: you cannot reach everyone by yourself
Social capital: the who, what and when of building your clinic family
Finances: the lights do not stay on with positive thoughts and well wishes
7.6 How do I fix the problem at the source? Yelling up the chain: advocacy as part of the clinic’s mission?
Community advocacy
Administrative advocacy
Litigation as a venue for change
Governmental advocacy
7.7 Conclusion
8. Public education: the Tax Club UNILAG
8.1 Key findings
8.2 The context of the Tax Club UNILAG
8.3 The creation of Tax Club UNILAG
8.4 An overview of the club’s activities
8.5 The importance of tax clubs
8.6 Some challenges faced by the tax club
8.7 Support for the use of tax clubs in education
8.8 Looking to the future
8.9 Concluding remarks
9. Public education: engaging with secondary education in schools
9.1 Key findings
9.2 Introduction
9.3 Tax clinics as defenders of taxpayer rights
9.4 Partnering with secondary education
How the partnership was established
Benefits of the community partnership
9.5 Conclusion
10. Taxpayer resolution: improving taxpayer compliance in Indonesia
10.1 Key findings
10.2 Introduction
10.3 Taxation in Indonesia in a nutshell
Registration
Bookkeeping
Payment
Reporting
Audits and penalties
10.4 Revenue and taxpayer compliance
10.5 Improving individual taxpayer compliance
The formation of the FoT community
The development of FoT
10.6 Conclusion
11. Policy changes: impact on and through the Tax Court
11.1 Key findings
11.2 Introduction
11.3 Government approach
Regulations and other rules
11.4 Role of tax clinics in shaping the law
Litigation: impact of clinics on the community of low-income taxpayers
Commenting on proposed legislation, regulations, forms and rules
Commenting on systemic problems at the IRS
11.5 Conclusion
12. Marginalised voices: tax and the criminal justice system
12.1 Key findings
12.2 Introduction
12.3 Making Tax Digital
12.4 Digital exclusion
12.5 Tax issues – people in prison
Digital exclusion – people in prison
People in prison/with previous lived experience of prison as clinic clients
Prison and self-employment
Tax and self-employment
12.6 Student and university benefits
12.7 Conclusion
Part III. Tax clinics and our students
13. Pedagogical theory and clinical tax education
13.1 Key findings
13.2 Introduction
13.3 Fostering the next generation of tax advisers: the importance of pro bono
13.4 Relevant pedagogical theories
Employability from tax clinics: work-integrated learning (WIL)
Growing student motivation and confidence: self-determination theory (SDT)
13.5 Concluding remarks
13.6 Key reading
14. Enhancing student experience: shadowing, role-plays and reflection
14.1 Key findings
14.2 Introduction: pedagogical rationale
14.3 Initial collaboration
14.4 Implementation
Student recruitment
EOI, CV and job interview
Participation and presentation
14.5 From theory to practice
Shadowing
Team-based approach
Role-plays
Reflection and report writing
Career readiness
COVID-19 and the impact on the student experience
14.6 Conclusion
15. Introducing tax advocacy to students
15.1 Key findings
15.2 Introduction
15.3 The structure of a clinic course
The seminar component
The client representation component
15.4 Major design choices within the clinic model
The directive–nondirective continuum
Level of student responsibility for cases
Use of examples and templates
Case supervision
Tension between client service and student educational development
15.5 Developing a reflective practice
Exercising agency over one’s professional development
Building the habit of reflection
15.6 Skills and direct advocacy experience
Law firm management
Ethics
Multicultural lawyering
Legal skills
1. Interviewing
2. Fact and legal investigation
3. Client advice and communication
4. Document drafting
The advocacy mind-set
15.7 Working with community members
15.8 Conclusion
16. Developing employability skills through practice-based learning
16.1 Key findings
16.2 Introduction
16.3 Rationale for the TAC at UEL
To raise awareness and provide free guidance in response to the COVID-19 lockdown
To support employability of our accounting and finance students
16.4 Relevant literature
Voluntary services: student, faculty and practitioner participation
Pro bono: the participation of experienced practitioners
16.5 Clinic design
Student volunteers
Practice-led teaching
External impact, collaborations and partnerships
Student experience
The challenges of tax and accounting clinics
16.6 Data and methodology
16.7 Results and discussion
Tax and accountancy clinic and employability skills development
The impact of COVID-19 on student TAC experience
The measurement of students’ satisfaction: quality of the TAC training
16.8 Concluding remarks
17. Students’ professional identity and a fully online tax clinic
17.1 Key findings
17.2 Introduction
17.3 The Griffith Tax Clinic
Face-to-face
Online
17.4 Research methodology
Participants
17.5 Data results
Overall
Nationality
PWE (Professional Work Experience)
Limitations of research and future research
17.6 Concluding remarks
Part IV. Moving forwards
18. A research roadmap for tax clinics
18.1 Key findings
18.2 Introduction
18.3 Developing the tax clinic as a research project
18.4 Mapping the research field
18.5 Research methods
18.6 Theoretical perspectives
18.7 Concluding remarks
19. Moving forwards: tax clinics and business schools
19.1 Key findings
19.2 Introduction: the civic university
19.3 Widening participation
19.4 The challenge of professional accreditation
19.5 Practical experience
19.6 Some ideas for clinics going forwards
Replacing High Volume Agents (HVAs)
Child Trust Funds
Cryptocurrencies
19.7 Policy clinics
Desk research for the Office of Tax Simplification
Educating policy makers
Drawing on students’ experiences of the tax system
22.8 Concluding remarks
20. Concluding remarks
Index
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