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Graduate Tax
The Villanova University interdisciplinary Graduate Tax Program is conducted
jointly by the School of Law and the College of Commerce and Finance. 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 other discipline.
In addition, because the full-time and adjunct faculty includes both
attorneys and accountants who specialize in taxation, the substantive course
material 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, practical application, 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 curriculum.
For additional information about the Program email Cindy
Kesselman, call 610-519-7043, or call toll-free 1-888-GRAD-TAX.
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