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Conference in Honour of Richard Musgrave

2 - 4 June 2008

Draft Program

MONDAY, 2 JUNE

Opening

9:30
Peggy Musgrave

Tax Overview

10:00
The Political Economy of Tax Reform: A Neo-Musgravian Perspective
John Head
11:00
Coffee

Choosing the Tax Base

11:30 Income Base versus Consumption Base
Alan Auerbach
12:30 Taxing Capital Income: Effects and Structural Issues
Jane Gravelle
1:30 Lunch
2:30 The Mirrlees Review: A Perspective
Malcolm Gammie

Prospects for Public Expenditure

3:30 Leviathan Revisited: Is He Still Coming?
Geoffrey Brennan
4:30 Coffee
7:30 Dinner

TUESDAY, 3 JUNE

9:30 Tax Reform Templates: Four Lessons from New Zealand
David White

The Tax Rate Scale – Equity and Efficiency Aspects

10:30 The distributional effect of consumption taxes in tax systems
Neil Warren
11:30 Coffee
12:00 Labour Supply, Saving and Tax Policy
Patricia Apps
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Flat versus Progressive Rate Scales
Michael Keen
3:00 Tax Progressivity: A Lawyer’s Perspective
Neil Brooks
4:00 Coffee
7:00 Dinner

WEDNESDAY, 4 JUNE

Perspectives on Business Taxation

9:30 Carbon Taxes and Emissions Targets
John Freebairn

Interjurisdictional Aspects

10:30 Taxing Foreign Income
Michael Devereux
11:30 Coffee
12:00 Inter-Nation Equity
Kim Brooks
1:00 Lunch

Containing Tax Avoidance

2:00 Anti-Avoidance Strategies
Chris Evans
3:00 Interest Quarantining
Michael McIntyre
4:00 Coffee
   

Institute Director

Professor Rick Krever


 
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