Pepperdine/Tax Analysts Symposium: Tax Reform in a Time of Crisis

Please join us via free live webcast today (8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. PST) for the Pepperdine/Tax Analysts Symposium on Tax Reform in a Time of Crisis.  You can Tweet questions for the panelists at #PeppTaxReform.

Keynote Address: 

• Joe Bankman (Stanford), Tax Scholarship in a Time of Fiscal Crisis
• Introduction:  Paul Caron (Pepperdine)
• Commentary:  Ed Kleinbard (USC)

Panel #1:  Individual/Estate and Gift Tax Reform

• Dorothy Brown (Emory), Barack and Michelle Obama: The Early Years
• Miranda Fleischer (San Diego), Charity, Poverty, and Duty
• Jim Repetti (Boston College), Revitalizing the Estate Tax: Five Easy Pieces (with Paul Caron (Pepperdine))
• Commentary:  Nancy Staudt (USC)
• Moderator:  Tom Bost (Pepperdine)

Luncheon Address:  Bruce Bartlett (Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury)

Panel #2:  Business/International Tax Reform

• Karen Brown (George Washington), Addressing International Income Inequality in a Time of Crisis
• Ruth Mason (Virginia), Exporting FATCA: International Enforcement in a Time of Crisis (with Josh Blank (NYU))
• Richard Winchester (Thomas Jefferson), Carried Interest for the Common Man
• Commentary:  Eric Zolt (UCLA)
• Moderator:  Khrista Johnson (Pepperdine)

Panel #3:  Tax Reform in a Time of Crisis: Institutional Perspectives

• Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), Nonprofits and Political Activity: Some Lessons From Other Countries
• Donald Tobin (Ohio State), The 2013 IRS Crisis, Independent Organizations, and Proposed Regulation 1.501(c)(4)-1: Where Do We Go From Here?
• George Yin (Virginia; former Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation), Reforming the IRS (to Save It)
• Commentary:  Donald Korb (Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell; former IRS Chief Counsel)
• Moderator:  Joe Thorndike (Tax Analysts)

Closing Remarks:  What Have We Learned Today?:  Robert Popovich (Pepperdine)