Friday, May 21, 2004

The National Tax Association concludes its 34th Spring Symposium on Tax Policy in Transition today at the Holiday Inn Capitol in Washington, D.C. with these panel programs and speakers:

9:00-10:30am
Corporate Tax Reporting and Compliance
Moderator: George Plesko (MIT)
Presenters:
• Corporate Tax Avoidance and the Properties of Corporate Earnings (George Plesko, MIT)
• Lost in Translation: Detecting Tax Shelter Activity in Financial Statements (Gary McGill , Florida; & Edmund Outslay, Michigan State)
• The Evolving Schedule M-3: A New Era of Corporate Show and Tell? (Charles Boynton, Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury Department; & Lillian Mills, Arizona)

10:45am-12:15pm
International Tax Roundtable
Moderator: Peter Orszag (The Brookings Institution)
Presenters:
• Jane Gravelle (Congressional Research Service)
• Gary Hufbauer (Institute of International Economics)
• Jonathan Talisman (Capitol Tax Partners)