No one is spared at income tax time, regardless of income level. So with the aim of smoothing this tedious process for destitute people, last March 16 second- and third-year students in accounting sciences at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue successfully held the long-awaited income tax clinic called Clinique d’impôt 2003. With the help of over 50 volunteers (including 32 students supported by a team of auditors from both levels of government and a specialized firm), this regional activity offered the participating future accountants an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the various fiscal aspects of a real income tax declaration while helping over 200 low-income individuals. By contributing, too, to the influence of their university and greatly improving their academic training, these students turned the activity into a major social engagement. Had it not been held, it may not have enabled the clients encountered to obtain the tax credits they were entitled to.