PENDIDIKAN PERPAJAKAN: PERSEPSI AKADEMISI, PRAKTISI, DAN MAHASISWA UNTUK JENJANG DIPLOMA DAN SARJANA

The aims of this study is to analyze the view of educators, practitioners, and students regarding the graduate’s attributes in taxation Diploma and Accounting undergraduates to perform as an entry level of taxation staff. It explore whether there is an ‘expectations gap’ exists between the skill, basic capability, and learning outcomes of taxation knowledge obtained at university and practitioners expectations and what attributes they expected the graduate to have. The questionnaire is sent to practitioners likely to recruit graduates who had studied taxation at Taxation diploma or Accounting Undergraduate, to educators who teach taxation within universities, and students of Taxation Diploma and Undergraduate Accounting Program. Using Test and Cl for two proportions for basic capability, two sample T-Test for learning outcomes and skills, the result indicate that the differences exist between students either with practitioners or educators. In the view of academicians and practitioners, the expectation gap does not exist, but the agreement proportion of basic capability indicate that further discussion is needed due to the basic knowledge of tax planning and international taxation that undergraduate must have.