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TECHNOLOGY, PRIVACY, AND THE FUTURE OF TAXATION
October 4 and 5, 2007
Hotel Monaco, Washington, DC

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Office of Tax Policy Research at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan

Cosponsored by the American Tax Policy Institute with funding also provided by The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the National Science Foundation
 

AGENDA

 

Thursday, October 4  
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Session I: Compliance, Enforcement, and Administration

“The IRS and Technology: Vision and Strategy”
Andrew Buckler (Internal Revenue Service)

Discussant: Eric Toder (Urban Institute)
“Using Technology for Simple Returns: Pre-populated Returns and IRS-provided Software”
Joseph Bankman (Stanford Law School)

Discussant: Janet Holtzblatt (U.S. Treasury, Office of Tax Analysis)
“Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries”
Richard Bird (University of Toronto)
Eric Zolt (UCLA Law School)

Discussant: James Alm (Georgia State University)
   
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session II: Interjurisdictional Issues

“International Information Sharing”
Grace Perez-Navarro (OECD)

Discussant: Frank Ng (Internal Revenue Service)
“The SSTP and Technology: Implications for the Future of the Sales Tax.”

William Fox (University of Tennessee)
LeAnn Luna (University of Tennessee)
Matthew Murray (University of Tennessee)

Discussant: John Mikesell (Indiana University)

 

 

 

Friday, October 5  
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m Session III: Progressivity, Personalization, and Privacy

“Genes as Tags: Tax Implications of Widely Available Genetic Information”
Kyle Logue (University of Michigan Law School)
Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan)

Discussant: Daniel Shaviro (New York University Law School)
“Problems and Promise of Smart Cards”
Frank Cowell (London School of Economics)

Discussant: Richard Ainsworth (Boston University Law School)
“Privacy Issues in the Future of Taxation”
Paul Schwartz (Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California,
Berkeley)

Discussant: Orin Kerr (George Washington University Law
School)
   
   
  Note: All sessions will be held at the Hotel Monaco, 700 F Street, N.W.