Friday, July 2, 2004
The Tax Policy Center will host a forum on Fixing the Tax Mess: Prospects and Possibilities on Tuesday, July 13 in Washington, D.C. The speakers are:
• Tax Prof Michael Graetz (Yale): Replacing the income tax with a value-added tax, while retaining a version of the AMT limited to families with more than $100,000 of income
• Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Democratic Whip: Initial conclusions from his ongoing examination of the tax system, possible ways to reform it, and the political prospects for change
• Peter Orszag (Brookings Institution), Co-Director, Tax Policy Center: Moderator
• C. Eugene Steuerle (Urban Institute), Co-Director, Tax Policy Center: The need to reform the tax policy process itself
The forum will be held at 9:30 – 11:00 am at the Urban Institute’s Katharine Graham Conference Center, 2100 M Street, NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC. To RSVP, e-mail here or call (202) 261-5627.
