The Impacts of Accounting and Tax Agents Act from the Perceptions of Clients, CPAs, Tax Agents And Students

• Main Authors: Yu,Ming-fang, 余明芳
• Other Authors: Lin,Lang-fong
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30116642371234301678

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 會計研究所 === 93 === After years disputing, the Accounting and Tax Agents Act was finally passed on June 2, 2004. The Act provides the incumbent bookkeeper industry a legal supporting of its professional level and ability. However, until now only little research discussed about this topic. Most of researches either focus on literature reorganization or without covering opinions from all related parties, such as clients, CPAs, and tax agents, at the same time. Zhang (2001), the only exception of other research, compared the difference of tax agent system between Taiwan and China, which surveyed from all related parties simultaneously. However, Zhang’s research focuses on the comparing of the tax agents system and does not look into the impact of the system to all related parties. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to survey the impact of passing Accounting and Tax Agents Act from the perceptions of clients, CPAs, and tax agents. The unique of the research is that besides including all related parties at the same time, the survey also includes the perceptions of current students, who are the potential entrants for the industry, which provides some opinions of how the Act affects students future career planning. The research findings are as follows. 1.The perceptions of clients were impacted by their agents. Passing the Accounting and Tax Agent Act does not affect the clients to consider changing their accounting and tax agents, as well as agents selection. 2.Incumbent bookkeeper agents might benefit from the Act, especially in bookkeeping and tax agency job, and the Act might affect small size CPA firms, but for overall the threat to CPAs is limit. 3.The perceptions of graduate and undergraduate students are similar to CPA’s, and vocational high school students’ to Incumbent bookkeeper agents’. The undergraduate students display the most interests of entering the accounting and tax agent industry after they graduate.