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THE ROLE OF FIRMS IN TAX SYSTEMS
April 17-18, 2009
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 
CALL FOR PAPERS
 
On April 17-18, 2009, the Office of Tax Policy Research will sponsor a conference in Ann Arbor on the role of firms in tax systems.

The conference papers should focus on the role of firms in the implementation of tax systems, including their role in remitting revenue to the tax authority in the form of corporation income tax, value added taxes, and withholding on labor income tax. We invite normative models of firm-based tax systems implemented in countries with limited administrative capacity and avoidance and evasion is different for firm-based taxes, as well as positive normative theoretical models that look beyond constant-returns-to-scale and allow heterogeneous firms. Empirical applications are equally welcome, including on such topics as the effect of taxation on the size distribution of firms and the “missing middle,” the formation of VAT chains, the impact of size thresholds for tax registration, and the effect of tax thresholds on firm concentration and production patterns. Authors with a background in development economics or industrial organization, but interested in the overlap with taxation, are especially encouraged to participate.

The deadline for submission of papers or abstracts is September 12, 2008. Preference is given to papers over abstracts.

For submission, please visit click on the “Submit Paper” link below. Should you have any (technical) difficulties with the online submission procedure, please contact otpr.support@educonference.com  for assistance.

Authors of submitted papers will be notified no later than October 10, 2008 whether their paper has been accepted for the conference.

OTPR provides accommodation and will reimburse economy travel costs for authors with accepted papers. All papers presented at the conference will be invited to appear in the OTPR Working Paper Series. Papers may be submitted to appear in a special issue of the Journal of Public Economics, subject to its usual refereeing process.

Further questions regarding the conference can be addressed to Joel Slemrod at the University of Michigan (otpr@umich.edu).
 
 
 

TAX HAVENS AND TAX COMPETITION
June 18 -19, 2007

 
This event was jointly sponsored by Asset Management Forum and Econpubblica at Bocconi University and the Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR) at the Ross School of Business of the University of Michigan, and co-organized by Julian Alworth, Giampaolo Arachi, James Hines, and Joel Slemrod.
 
 

Abstracts of the papers presented at this conference are available here.

 

OTPR's Coordinator, Mary Ceccanese, surprised the conference attendees by giving the opening remarks in both Italian and English!




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