DATE: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sept. 29, 2006

EVENT: Five Key Perspectives You Can Learn from Other Professions and Disciplines about Tax Policy.

PLACE: Holiday Inn Capitol, 550 C Street SW, Washington, D.C.

BACKGROUND: Two dozen tax experts from academia, government, business and media will participate in six panel discussions on tax policy. Each panel will address what non-experts in the following areas should know about tax policy and its implications: tax law, tax economics, tax accounting, tax administration, media coverage of tax issues and business perspectives on tax issues.

U.S. Rep. William M. Thomas, R-Calif., chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, will deliver the keynote luncheon address.

Panelists include: James Hines and Joel Slemrod of the University of Michigan; Len Burman of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center; Pam Olson and Ken Gideon of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; George Yin of the University of Virginia; Tom Barthold of the U.S. Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation; Michael Keen of the International Monetary Fund; Donald Korb of the Internal Revenue Service; Timothy McCormally of the Tax Executives Institute; David Wessel of the Wall Street Journal.

Also: Douglas Shackelford of the University of North Carolina; Wally Herstein of the University of Georgia; Zanny Minton-Beddoes of the Economist; William Fox and Matthew Murray of the University of Tennessee; Laura Kalambokidis of the University of Minnesota; Howard Gleckman of BusinessWeek; Lillian Mills of the University of Texas; Chris Ohmes of Ernst & Young; Doug Sheppard of State Tax Notes; Mary Jane Egr Edson of the Nebraska Department of Revenue; Annabelle Canning of Verizon Wireless; and Dan Kostenbauder of Hewlett-Packard.

SPONSORS: The National Tax Association, in partnership with the Office of Tax Policy Research at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business, and funded by Tax Analysts.

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