(Posted 8-2-99)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
News Service Contact: Steve Gilliam, 336-334-5619

UNCG ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT RECEIVES GRANT
OF $100,000 FROM IRS FOR TAXPAYER HELP CLINIC

GREENSBORO--The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has awarded a grant of $100,000 to The Department of Accounting
in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro to conduct a Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic.

The grant to UNCG was part of a $1.5 million appropriation to 34 universities and non-profit groups nationally which conduct the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic program. UNCG received the maximum amount of $100,000 and was the only North Carolina campus to be selected for a grant.

The IRS program, which was approved by President Clinton and Congress last year, is designed to expand the availability of
legal assistance to taxpayers. Under the program, tax clinics may be run by law, business or accounting schools -- whose
students represent taxpayers in tax disputes with the IRS or the courts -- or by tax-exempt organizations.

The UNCG Department of Accounting has been conducting such a program since September of 1997 as part of graduate
courses in accounting. The new grant will provide funds for additional student support, creation of brochures, possible
translator services, computer and secretarial support and faculty time, said Dr. Susan Anderson, head of the Department of
Accounting.

Since 1997, accounting classes have been working in the clinics. The program provides free assistance to low- and
moderate-income taxpayers who are being audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The clinic operates out of the
Department of Accounting in the Joseph M. Bryan School at UNCG. Interested persons can call the department at
334-5647.

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