Federal Tax Clinic
The Federal Tax Clinic was established in 2000 to assist low-income individuals
throughout Western Washington resolve disputes with the Internal Revenue Service.
The federally-funded clinic offers this assistance as a public service and as a
means of training law students in tax practice. In 2009, the clinic received an IRS
funding grant, the largest given to any clinic in the country. During 2008, the clinic
handled 132 cases through the IRS administrative process and 67 cases in the
United States Tax Court.
Tax Clinic News
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Tax Professor honored by AALS
Scott Schumacher, director of the Federal Tax Clinic is one of only six legal educators in the country honored as a 2010 Bellow Scholar by the Clinical Legal Education section of the Association of American Law Schools.
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Justice [Department] Examines Deutsche Bank Closely - Financial Times, German Edition
Scott Schumacher discusses the KPMG investigation and prosecution. (This article is in German.)
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Tax Inquiry Is Moving Past KPMG - New York Times
Ever since the accounting firm KPMG reached a $456 million settlement of a federal investigation into abusive tax shelters nearly three weeks ago, the question has been who may be next. Scott Schumacher is quoted
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Fund IRS appropriately so agency can do job on its own - Seattle Times
Scott Schumacher, who teaches tax law at the University of Washington and formerly was a trial attorney with the Justice Department's Tax Division, said "Congress and the government are definitely out to send a message, and one way to send a message is to indict, if not prosecute, the lawyers, hedge funds and bankers."
Schumacher publications
Clinic Director Scott Schumacher is the co-author of the book Tax Crimes, published by LexisNexis.
Scott has also published the following articles:
- MacNiven v. Westmoreland and Tax Advice Using "Purposive Textualism" to Deal with Tax Shelters and Promote Legitimate Tax Advice in The Marquette Law Review
- The Ninth Circuit Says Aloha to Boulware — Again, in Tax Notes
- Section 6694 Preparer Penalties and Tax Advice: The Latest on the Constantly Moving Target, in The Practical Tax Lawyer
- Learning to Write in Code: The Value of Using Legal Writing Exercises to Teach Tax Law, in The Pittsburgh Tax Review