The two-day symposium on Tax Reform in a World of Deficits and Uncertainty, co-hosted by the National Tax Association and American Tax Policy Institute, concludes today in Washington, D.C.  Among the Tax Prof participants:

• John Buckley (Georgetown), Tax Expenditures: An Overview from a Legislative Perspective (Discussant: Kimberly Clausing (Reed College, Department of Economics))
• Joseph Cordes (George Washington), Re-Thinking the Charitable Tax Deduction: Evaluating the Effects of Deficit-Reduction Proposals (Discussant: Ellen P. Aprill (Loyola-L.A.))
• Mihir A. Desai (Harvard), C. Fritz Foley (Harvard) & James R. Hines Jr. (Michigan), Foreign Tax Deferral and Foreign Income Flows (Discussant: Martin Sullivan (Tax Analysts))
• Daniel Halperin (Harvard), Mitigating the Potential Inequity of Reducing Corporate Rates (Discussants: James R. Hines Jr. (Michigan) & Kirk Stark (UCLA))