NATIONAL TAX ASSOCIATION

Special NTA September Conference
September 29, 2006, Washington DC

5 Key Perspectives You Can Learn from Other
Professions and Disciplines about Tax Policy

A conference sponsored by the National Tax Association, in partnership with the Office of Tax Policy Research at the University of Michigan and funded by Tax Analysts 

TENTATIVE AGENDA

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

 

 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

 

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.   Continental Breakfast

 

8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.   Welcome and Introduction

 

8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.               Five Key Things Non-Lawyers Should Know about Tax Law and Its Policy Implications (and what non-lawyers could do differently as a result)

                                                Moderator:       Len Burman (Urban Institute)

Panelists:        Pam Olson (Skadden Arps)

Wally Hellerstein ( University of Georgia )

George Yin ( University of Virginia )

 

9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.             Five Key Things Non-Economists Should Know about Tax Economics and Its Policy Implications (and what non-economists could do differently as a result)

                                                Moderator:       Ken Gideon (Skadden Arps)

Panelists:        Tom Barthold (Joint Committee on Taxation)

Bill Fox ( University of Tennessee )

James Hines ( University of Michigan )

 

10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.           Break

 

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.           Five Key Things Non-Accountants Should Know about Tax Accounting and Its Policy Implications (and what non-accountants could do differently as a result)

                                                Moderator:       Laura Kalambokidis ( University of Minnesota )

                                                Panelists:        Lillian Mills ( University of Texas )

Chris Ohmes (Ernst & Young)

Doug Shackelford ( University of North Carolina )

 

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.             Luncheon Address

                                                The Honorable William M. Thomas (R-CA 22),

Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means

 

 

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.               Five Key Things Non-Tax-Administrators Should Know about Tax Administration and Its Policy Implications (and what non-tax-administrators could do differently as a result)

                                                Moderator:       Matthew Murray ( University of Tennessee )

                                                Panelists:        Harley Duncan (Federation of Tax Administrators)

Michael Keen (International Monetary Fund)

Don Korb (Internal Revenue Service)

 

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.              Five Key Things That U.S. Tax Policy Analysts Should Know about Business Perspectives on Tax Issues and Its Policy Implications (and what non-business tax policy analysts could do differently as a result)

                                                Moderator:       Howard Gleckman (Business Week)

Panelists:        Annabelle Canning (Verizon Wireless)

Dan Kostenbauder (Hewlett-Packard)

Timothy McCormally (Tax Executives Institute)

 

3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.   Break

 

3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.               Five Key Things Non-Journalists Should Know about Media and Its Policy Implications (and what non-journalists could do differently as a result)

                                                Moderator:       Joel Slemrod ( University of Michigan )

                                                Panelists:        Zanny Minton-Beddoes (The Economist)

                                                                        Doug Sheppard (State Tax Notes)

David Wessel (Wall Street Journal)

 

4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.               Summation and Next Steps

 

 

 

 

 

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