The 38th Annual American Taxation Association (ATA) Midyear Meeting
February 19-21, 2026
Nashville, TN
The 2026 Midyear Meeting Planning Committee is planning a diverse and cutting-edge program to take place on February 20-21. On Thursday, February 19, 2026, before the ATA Midyear Meeting, we will also hold the 22nd Annual ATA Tax Doctoral Consortium and the 12th Annual Teaching and Curriculum Conference.
We would like to thank EY for being the program host for the 2026 Teaching and Curriculum Conference
Thank you to our Platinum Sponsors for their generous support of our Midyear Meeting
Celebrating 50 Years of the American Taxation Association!
Upcoming Deadlines & Calls
Nominations for
Awards
The American Taxation Association Call for Nominations: Click on awards below for nomination details.
Awards & Honors
Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator Award
(funded by the Ernst & Young Foundation)
- 2022: Anne Magro, George Mason University
ATA Outstanding Service Award
- 2023: Benjamin C. Ayers, University of Georgia
ATA Teaching Innovation Award
- 2023: Shelley Rhoades-Catanach, Villanova University, Christine Cheng The University of Mississippi, and Luke Watson, Villanova University for "Data Analytics for Undergraduate Tax Students: An Alteryx Case Study for MACRS Depreciation"
ATA / PricewaterhouseCoopers Outstanding Tax Dissertation Award
- 2023: David M.P. Samuel, completed at University of Wisconsin-Madison, for "The Effect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Foreign Investment of U.S. Multinational Corporations"
ATA Tax Manuscript Award
- 2023: Katharine D. Drake, Russ Hamilton, Stephen J. Lusch for "Are Declining Effective Tax Rates Indicative of Tax Avoidance? Insight from Effective Tax Rate Reconciliations", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2020, Volume 70(1)
JATA Outstanding Paper Award
- 2023: Andrew Finley and James Stekelberg for "Measuring Tax Authority Monitoring," Journal of the American Taxation Association 2022, Vol. 44, No. 1
JATA Conference Best Discussant Award
- 2023: Sonja O. Rego, Indiana University-Bloomington for her discussion of "A Re-Examination of Firm Size and Taxes" by FAbio Gaertner, Brent Glover, and Oliver Levine
JLTR Outstanding Paper Award
- 2022: Irwin J. Katz, University of South Florida for "Instilling Subpart F with Horizontal Equity as Applicable to Individual U.S. Sharholders"
The Vice President Award (Learn more about this award)
- 2022: Bradley P. Lindsey, Utah State University
A Letter From Our President
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ATA Memorial Fund
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