UC-Irvine Hosts Virtual Symposium Today On Taxation In A Time Of Crisis

UC-Irvine hosts a virtual symposium today on Taxation in a Time of Crisis (program):

Panel #1: Tax Relief During the COVID-19 Pandemic:

• Ellen April (Loyola-L.A.), Standards for Charitable Disaster Relief in the Time of Pandemic, 81 Exempt Org. Tax Rev. 395 (2020)
• Wei Cui (British Columbia; Google Scholar), How Well-Targeted Are Payroll Tax Cuts as a Response To COVID-19: Evidence From China
• Stephanie Hunter McMahon (Cincinnati), Employment Taxes in Crisis: In Practice, Enforcement, and Insolvency
• Victor Fleischer (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar) (moderator)

Panel #2: Equitable Tax Administration During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Andrew Hayashi (Virginia; Google Scholar) & Ariel Jurow Kleiman (San Diego; moving to Loyola-L.A.; Google Scholar), Property Taxes During the Pandemic, 96 Tax Notes State (June 22, 2020) (reviewed by Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Alabama) here)
• Christine Kim (Utah; Google Scholar), Taxing Telework in the Wake of COVID-19
• Rodney Mock (Cal Poly) & Kathryn Kisska-Schultz (Clemson), Saving the Non-Essential from the War on COVID-19 
• Christine Speidel (Villanova) & Leslie Book (Villanova; Google Scholar), When Tax Procedure Meets COIV-19: An Uneasy Relationship
• Joshua Blank (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar) (moderator)

Panel #3: What Can The COVID-19 Pandemic Teach Us About Tax Policy?

• Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College; Google Scholar) & Diane Ring (Boston College; Google Scholar), Regulating in Pandemic: Evaluating Economic and Financial Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis
• Ana Santos Rutschman (St. Louis) & Henry Ordower (St. Louis), Public Health and Tax Compliance Convergence
• Nancy Shurtz (Oregon), COVID, Recession, and Tax Reform: Lessons For Reshaping State and Municipal Policy
• Mark Hoose (VP Tax & Trade, Intuitive) (moderator)

Panel #4: Making Tax Relief a Better Policymaking Instrument

• James Alm (Tulane; Google Scholar) & Jay Soled (Rutgers; Google Scholar), Tax Amnesties, Recidivism, and the Need For Reform
• William Foster (Arkansas) & Andrew Lawson (Arkansas), Toward Less Partisan Emergency Relief
• Victoria Haneman (Creighton; Google Scholar), Prepaid Death
• Omri Marian (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar)