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In November of each year, the National Tax Association holds its annual conference; this year celebrating its 100th anniversary. One of the highlights (for OTPR attendees) is the annual dinner, where current and former OTPR-affiliated students and faculty gather to meet and reminisce.

   

OTPR Press Citations

• “IRS Targets Billionaire's”
Wall Street Journal, June 9, 2008

• “Tax Havens in U.S. Cross Hairs”
Christian Science Monitor, June 9, 2008

• “Stimulus Hopes Misplaced: Ailing Economy
Has Spending Spree Unlikely”
Atlanta-Journal Constitutional, May 15, 2008

• “Tax Rebates in $168 Billion Stimulus Plan
Begin Arriving in Bank Accounts”
New York Times, April 29, 2008

• “McCain Says Tax, Spending Cuts Needed To
Boost Economy”
The Frontrunner, April 18, 2008

• “State of Taxation 2008: Taxing Consumption”
Congressional Quarterly Weekly, April 13, 2008

• “State of Taxation 2008: The Case for a Broader
Base”
Congressional Quarterly Weekly, April 13, 2008

• “These May Be the Good Old Days for Taxpayers:
Economists Predict Increasing Tax Rates”
Associated Press, April 11, 2008

• “For Small Businesses, Just Filing Taxes Is a
Costly Burden”
Business Intelligence, April 11, 2008

• “Small Businesses and the Tax Code”
Finance Wire, April 10, 2008

• “Gwinnett Opinions: Teen Failed the Real Test”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 4, 2008

• “Democrats and Tax Policy”
Las Vegas Review - Journal, March 17, 2008

• “Fortune Favors Hard Work and Enterprise, Usually”
Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2008

• “The New Forbes Billionaire List”
CNBC, TV Interview, March 6, 2008

• “Taxes You Pay Now May Represent the ‘Good
Old Days’”
Newhouse News Service, February 28, 2008

• “U.S. Retail Holds Its Breath for Tax Boost”
Financial Times, February 19, 2008

• “Before Rebate Checks Hit the Mail, Deals Surface”
Plain Dealer, February 19, 2008

• “UM 2002 Tax Rebates Study”
San Jose Mercury News, February 15, 2008

• “Bush Ready to Sign Rescue Package with Rebate
Checks for Individuals, Tax Relief for Business”
Associated Press, February 13, 2008,

• “Rebate Is Congress’ Overreaction to Economic Slowdown”
South Bend Tribune, February 13, 2008

• “How People Use Tax Rebates”
National Public Radio, Media Broadcast Hit,
February 11, 2008

• “Ga.’s Stimulus Estimate; $3.6 Billion: Rebates Checks
Could Be an Economic Shot in the Arm – If They’re
Spent and Not Socked Away”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 9, 2008

• “Spending the Tax Rebate: Will It Help?” Chico
Enterprise-Record, February 9, 2008

• “Tax Rebates”
National Public Radio – Marketplace, February 8,
2008

• “Spending Rebates Is Not Likely”
San Francisco Chronicle, February 5, 2008

• “‘Miss America Effect’ Is Homegrown Stimulus”
Grand Rapids Press, February 4, 2008

• “Forget Rebate Checks, Send Gift Cards Instead”
Buffalo News, February 3, 2008

• “Rebate Psychology”
New York Times, January 31, 2008

 

Recent Presentations

Both Professor James Hines and Professor Joel Slemrod presented at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Residential Conference – “Reforming the Tax System for the 21st Century: The Mirrlees Review.” The conference was a key milestone in the Mirrlees Review, inspired by the approaching 30th anniversary of the 1978 Meade Report, a landmark in the study of tax design. The new review will take account of changes in the goals of the tax system, the way in which it affects behavior, and the increasingly globalized economic and institutional environment in which it has to operate.

Professors Hines and Slemrod’s presentations will be part of the final report, which will be of long-term interest and relevance to policy makers, academics, and civil society, aimed primarily at the United Kingdom but also of lasting interest and relevance to other countries facing similar policy challenges.


James R. Hines, Research Director

Co-editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives
• Research Director, International Tax Policy Forum
• Associate Editor, New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
• Associate Editor, Journal of Regional Science
• Associate Editor, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money


Joel Slemrod, Director

• Co-editor, Journal of Public Economics