12th Annual Junior Tax Scholars Workshop Kicks Off Today At Toronto

Panel #1:  The Family Unit

Christine Allie (Widener), Negating the Cost of “I Do”: Ending the U.S. Tax Code’s Family Penalty Through Permissive Joint Filing
Commentators:  Kathleen Delaney-Thomas (North Carolina), Sloan Speck (Colorado), 

Tessa Davis (South Carolina), Freezing the Future: Fertility, Choice, and Taxing State of the Art Reproductive Technologies
Commentators:  Pippa Browde (Montana), Erin Scharff (Arizona State)

Khrista Johnson (Pepperdine), The Offshore Whistle During Divorce: An Examination of the Whistleblower Program and Innocent Spouse Relief
Commentators:  Gabriel Schobe (BYU), Genevieve Tokić (Northern Illinois)

Panel #2:  Tax Expenditures and Well-Being

Pippa Browde (Montana), Tribal Welfare, Self-Determination, and Prohibitions on Lavishness
Commentators:  Christine Allie (Widener), Lilian Faulhaber (Georgetown)

Ari Glogower (Ohio State), Tax Expenditures and Economic Well-Being
Commentators:  Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Goldburn Maynard (Louisville)

Sloan Speck (Colorado), Consumption Smoothing and the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction
Commentators:  Kathleen Delaney-Thomas (North Carolina), Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)

Panel #3:  Sovereignty and Autonomy

Lily Faulhaber (Georgetown), The Trouble with Tax Competition: From Practice to Theory
Commentators:  Christine Allie (Widener), Khrista Johnson (Pepeprdine)

Allen Madison (South Dakota), Sovereign Restraint in the Federal Tax System
Commentators:  Pippa Browde (Montana), Tessa Davis (South Carolina)

Erin Scharff (Arizona State), Revisiting Local Income Taxes
Commentators:  Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)

Genevieve Tokic (Northern Illinois), Disrupting the Tax Treaty Network: An Argument for Tax Treaty Customization
Commentators:  Zach Liscow (Yale), Sloan Speck (Colorado)

Panel #4:  Behaviour and Administration

Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), Countercyclical Tax Bases
Commentators:  Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Orly Mazur (SMU)

Emily Satterthwaite (Toronto), Post-Audit “Crowding Out” of Honest Compliance and the Effect of Rewards: An Experimental Assessment
Commentators:  Zach Liscow (Yale), Rebecca Morrow (Wake Forest)

Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina), Consumer Behaviour and the Income Tax
Commentators:  Ari Glogower (Ohio State), Khrista Johnson (Pepperdine)

Prior Junior Tax Scholars Workshops:

• 2006 (Colorado) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2007 (Boston University) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2008 (NYU) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2009 (Brooklyn) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2010 (Notre Dame) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2011 (UC-Irvine) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2012 (Boston University) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2013 (Miami) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2014 (American) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2015 (Texas) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2016 (UC-Irvine) (Day 1, Day 2)