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<\/p>\nOXFORD, Miss. – Graduate students from the University of \n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \nThe service is offered to the general public 1-4 p.m. each \nThe students are supervised by return preparers who have \nStudent participant Clark Luke of Philadelphia said the \n“In addition to gaining valuable tax experience, we are \n“The class participating is Accountancy 603, Contemporary \nFor certification, students must answer correctly at least \nIn the past, the program was sponsored locally by Beta \n“Some of the returns are more complex than others and \nStudents are to work at least three hours each over the \n“We have done several practice returns in different \n“Instead of working with facts listed in a homework \nFor more information or for assistance related to a
\nMississippi’s Patterson School of Accountancy are
\nparticipating in AARP Tax-Aide, a program of the AARP
\nFoundation that has helped people of low-to-medium income
\nwith their income tax returns for 40 years.
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\nTuesday through April 15 at Stone Recreation Center on
\nWashington Avenue in Oxford.
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\nhad several years of experience and have also passed the
\nIRS certifying exam, said Tonya Flesher, professor and
\nArthur Andersen Lecturer in accountancy.
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\nprogram is a great learning experience.
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\nalso able to help out the community by providing this free
\ntax service,” he said.
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\nIssues in Taxation, and there are 24 master’s students
\nenrolled in the class,” said Flesher, who teaches the class
\nand coordinates the service project. “Working in the tax
\npreparation program is an ungraded service project for the
\ncourse. Students had to take an intensive examination
\nprepared by the Internal Revenue Service in order to be
\ncertified to participate.”
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\n80 percent of questions on the examination. Although the
\nservice project itself does not affect a student’s final
\ngrade, the score of the exam does count in the
\ndetermination of the final grade, Flesher said.
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\nAlpha Psi, the accountancy honor society, and the
\nAssociated Graduate Student Body for one or two days during
\nthe spring semester, and electronic filing was not readily
\navailable. Electronic filing, which allows a quicker
\nreceipt of tax refunds, is a benefit that the Tax-Aide
\nprogram offers.
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\ntake more time and some are fairly simple and take a little
\nless time,” said graduate student Charles Allen of
\nGreenwood, another student participant in the program.
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\ncourse of the service program.
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\nclasses, but not any that are actually being filed as these
\nare,” Allen said. “It’s nice to get some real world
\nexperience before we enter the workforce.”
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\nassignment, students will learn how to gather information
\nfrom the clients,” Flesher said.
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\ndisability, call 662-915-7468. To learn more about the
\nPatterson School of Accountancy, go to
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