Tax Clinic

This is a single semester internship for second- and third-year students, which may be extended to a second semester with the permission of the Director. This clinic gives students the opportunity to work with underserved communities and, under supervision, represent low-income clients involved in tax controversies before the IRS, District Counsel, and the U.S. Tax Court. Students perform outreach services by providing education on the rights and responsibilities of U.S. taxpayers to the community particularly for those whom English is a second language. Students are required to attend Tax Court sessions and the weekly clinic class component.

This clinic requires prior acceptance by the Tax Clinic Director and enrollment is limited.

Students are required to attend the weekly class component.

  • Prerequisites: Federal Income Taxation and Tax Practice and Procedure
  • Co-requisites: Tax Practice and Procedure (Students desiring to take Tax Clinic with Tax Practice and Procedure as a co-requisite must obtain consent of the Director of the Tax Certificate Program and/or the Professor teaching the Tax Clinic).
  • Course Credit: 4 (one or two semesters)
  • Grading: Graded
  • Minimum Hourly Requirement: 16 hours per week
  • Eligible Students: 2L’s and 3L’s
  • Florida Bar Notice of Registrant Clearance: No
  • Clinic Location: STU Campus
  • Faculty: Professor Daniel Munce

Michael Fouladi

“As a kid, I was taught that no government attention was good attention, and that attention from the IRS was the worst attention you could receive. Ironically, now that I’m a law student, most of my time is spent helping clients fight against the IRS. Though it is something I’d never dreamed of doing prior to law school, it is now the only thing I can consider a future career, and I owe this entirely to the Tax Clinic here at STU’s College of Law. It has been one of the most rewarding experiences as I have learned how the IRS operates and assisted taxpayers in resolving their tax disputes at the tax clinic. I have been able to apply tax theory learned to the real world. I’ve learned how these controversies form and, more importantly, how to deal with them. Seeing the face of relief on a client’s face after you successfully resolved their matter is priceless.”