14th Annual Critical Tax Conference Concludes Today at Santa Clara

Panel #5

• Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore), The New Supercharged PAT
• David Hasen (Santa Clara), Some Problems with the Idea of International Tax Neutrality
• Stephanie McMahon (Cincinnati), Joint and Several Tax Liability:  I Don’t Think That Statute Means What You Think It Means
• Henry Ordower (St. Louis), Charitable Contributions of Services

Panel #6

• Jeremy Bearer-Friend, How to Privatize the Welfare State: The Tax Treatment of Higher Education and the Erosion of Social Insurance in the U.S.
• Richard Beck (NYLS), Cancellation of Consumer Debts Following the Economic Crisis
• Mary Lou Fellows (Minnesota) & Lily Kahng (Seattle), Costly Mistakes: Undertaxed Business Owners and Overtaxed Workers

Roundtable Conversation: State Domestic Partnership Laws Present Federal Tax Questions

• Patricia Cain (Santa Clara)
• David Hasen (Santa Clara) (moderator)
• Eric San Juan (Office of the National Taxpayer Advocate)

Roundtable Presentations of Incubator Papers:

• Yariv Brauner (Florida), The Future of Tax Incentives
• Kim Brooks (Schulich), The Distributional Consequences of Tax Expenditures
• Adam Chodorow (Arizona), Charity with Chinese Characteristics
• Danshera Cords (Albany), Equitable Innocent Spouse: Is There Any Equity?
• Miranda Fleischer (Colorado), Consequentialism and the Charitable Tax Subsidies
• Tracy Kaye (Seton Hall), Comparative Territoriality
• Francine Lipman (Chapman), Square Pegs/Round Hole
• Roberta Mann (Oregon), Women and Children First: The Impact of Deficit-Balancing Tax Reform
• Leo Martinez (UC-Hastings), The Inscrutability of U.S. Tax Policy and Environmental Tax Reform
• Diane Ring (Boston College), Sovereign Harmony Domestic Discord: The Gap Between International Agreements and Domestic Politics
• Ted Seto (Loyola), Preference Shifting