The National Tax Association concludes its two-day 36th Spring Symposium today on Big Ideas — The Morning After.  Here are today’s scheduled panels, speakers, and topics:

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.:  A Multi-Disciplinary Discussion of the Domestic Manufacturing Deduction

• Moderator: James Mackie (Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury Department)
• Papers:
  • John McClelland (Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury Department) − Five Things an Economist Thinks are Important in Analyzing the Domestic Manufacturing Deduction
  • Lillian F. Mills (Arizona) − Five Things an Accountant Thinks are Important in Analyzing the Domestic Manufacturing Deduction
  • Clarissa Potter (Office of the Chief Counsel, IRS) − Five Things an Attorney Thinks are Important in Analyzing the Domestic Manufacturing Deduction
  • George Plesko (Connecticut) − Interdisciplinary Issues in Tax

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.:  Collective Impacts of Piecemeal Tax Policies − The Devil’s in the Details

• Organizer/Moderator: Nicholas Bull (Joint Committee on Taxation)
• Papers:
  • Paul Burnham & Larry Ozanne (both of the Congressional Budget Office) − Distortions from Piecemeal Tax Reform Revealed Through Effective Tax Rates
  • Jane Gravelle (Congressional Research Service) & Jennifer Gravelle (Government Accountability Office) − Horizontal Equity and Family Tax Treatment: The Orphan Child of Tax Policy
  • Michael Cooper & Mathew Knittel (both of the Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury Department) − Partial Refundability: How are Corporate Tax Losses Used?
• Discussants:
  • Eric Toder (The Urban Institute)
  • Paul Menchik (Michigan State)
  • Drew Lyon (PricewaterhouseCoopers)

The conference is being held at the Holiday Inn Capitol, 550 C Street, S.W. (L΄Enfant Plaza Metro), Washington, D.C. 20024