The IRS’s Statistics of Income Division has issued a call for tax papers for the 2008 IRS Research Conference:

The IRS will hold the 2008 IRS Research Conference in mid-June in Washington, D.C. The exact date and location will be announced soon on this page.

We invite you to submit a proposed paper for the 2008 Conference. General topics of interest include tax compliance, taxpayer burden, tax administration, and the nature and behavior of the taxpayer population. For example, we welcome proposed papers about closing the tax gap, identifying compliance problems, promoting voluntary compliance, reducing taxpayer burden, improving taxpayer service, improving the efficiency of tax administration, allocating enforcement and other resources, the effects of the globalization on taxation, the tax-exempt sector, and research methodologies. Proposals are welcome from government and non-government researchers from the U.S. and abroad. Conference presenters and discussants who are not government employees will receive funding for travel and honoraria. A conference proceedings volume will be published. For more information about previous conference programs and papers, click on the links below.

For proposed papers, please submit a title, an abstract not to exceed two pages in length, names and affiliations for all authors, and an e-mail address and phone number for at least one contact author.

Proposals for complete sessions of three papers, a session organizer, and a discussant are also invited.

Submissions are requested by January 4, 2008.

Please e-mail your submission and please put “proposed paper” in the subject line.

If you would like to discuss co-authoring a paper with an IRS researcher, volunteering as a discussant, or other avenues for conference participation, please contact the conference co-chairs, Janice Hedemann and Janet McCubbin by email.

Links to previous conferences: 2007 / 2006 / 2005 / 2004 / 2003 / 2002