Friday, November 9, 2007
Columbia Hosts Conference Today on Taxing Philanthropy
Columbia hosts a conference this afternoon on Taxing Philanthropy:
- Subsidizing Charitable Contributions: Incentives, Information and the Private Pursuit of Public Goals, by David Schizer (Columbia). Commentators:
- Alexander Friedman (Gates Foundation)
- Edward McCaffery (USC)
- Is Income Tax Exemption for Charities Special? The Issue is Investment Income, by Daniel Halperin (Harvard). Commentators:
- Henry Hansmann (Yale)
- Catherine Livingston (IRS Assistant Chief Counsel for Tax Exempt & Government Entities)
- Taxing Philanthropy
- David Schizer (Columbia) (moderator)
- Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. (Fletcher Asset Management)
- Ellen Futter (American Museum of Natural History)
- Peter Harvey (Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler)
- H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest (The Lenfest Group)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/11/columbia-hosts-.html