The National Tax Association concludes its 35th annual spring symposium on Big Ideas Amid Big Deficits today in Washington, D.C. at the Holiday Inn Capitol.  Here are today’s panels:

9:00 – 10:30 am:  Curbing Tax Shelter Use

Moderator:  Pamela H. Moomau (Joint Committee on Taxation)

• E. Ray Beeman (Joint Committee on Taxation):  Keeping the Faith: The Permanent Campaign against Tax Shelters
• Katarina Savino (Miller and Chevalier):  Tax Measures to Combat Tax Shelters:  The Line Between Tax Shelters and Tax Planning
• Michael A. Udell (Joint Committee on Taxation):  Measuring the Size of the Tax Shelter Problem
• Discussants:
  • Edward Kleinbard (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton)
  • Eric J. Toder (The Urban Institute)

10:45 am – 12:15 pm:  Social Security

Moderator: Paul A. Smith (Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System)

• Jeffrey R. Brown (University of Illinois & National Bureau of Economic Research) & Andrew Biggs (Social Security Administration)
• Julia Lynn Coronado, Watson Wyatt & Paul A. Smith (Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System)
• Amy Rehder Harris & Michael Simpson (Congressional Budget Office)
• David Richardson (J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University)