The 2009 IRS Research Conference concludes today at Georgetown. A list of today's panels, speakers and papers is here and below the fold:
Issues Affecting High-Wealth Individuals
- Moderator: Anne Parker (Small Business/Self-Employed, IRS)
- Kevin Moore (Board of Governors, Federal Reserve), Barry Johnson & Lisa Schreiber (both of Research, Analysis, and Statistics, IRS), The Income-Wealth Paradox: Connections Between Realized Income and Wealth Among America’s Aging Top Wealth-Holders
- Joshua D. Blank (Rutgers), Overcoming Overdisclosure: Toward Tax Shelter Detection, 56 UCLA L. Rev. ___ (2009)
- Rahul Tikekar, Kay Wolman & Larry May (all of Research, Analysis, and Statistics, IRS), GraphQuery: A Tool To Detect Patterns of Abusive Tax Transactions
- Discussant: Len Burman (The Urban Institute)
Tax Preparation Services
- Moderator: Chris Hess (Research, Analysis, and Statistics, IRS)
- Elaine Doyle (University of Limerick), Jane Frecknall Hughes (Open University Business School) & Barbara Summers (Leeds University Business School), Cognitive Ethical Reasoning of Tax Practitioners: A Preliminary Investigation Using a Tax-Specific Version of the Defining Issues Test (DIT)
- Leslie Book (Villanova), Increasing Preparer Responsibility, Visibility, and Competence
- Pete Webb (Pacific Consulting Group), Ben Shackleford (Wage & Investment, IRS), Peter Morris (VMN Group) & Chuck Feinstein (VMN Group), Taxpayer Value Model: Incorporating Taxpayer Perspective To Improve Service Interactions
- Discussant: Nina Olson (National Taxpayer Advocate, IRS)
