1:30pm   Opening Remarks by the Chair.

1:40pm   Update from the Executive Branch on Emerging Employment Tax Issues.  A panel of government representatives will discuss the most significant recent developments affecting employment taxes with a focus on their practical implications. The discussion also will include the appropriateness of any actions to be taken by the Committee in response to those developments.  Moderator: Thomas H. Meyerer, Ernst & Young, LLP, Washington, DC. Panelists: Catherine Livingston, Assistant Chief Counsel EO/ET/Government Entities, IRS, Washington, DC; Neil Shepherd, Senior Counsel, Office of Division Counsel, IRS, Washington, DC.
2:50pm Disasters and Employment Taxes. Practitioners and state government representatives will discuss employment-tax issues arising from occurrence of public disaster, including sufficiency of Katrina notices. Moderator: Thomas H. Meyerer, Ernst & Young LLP, Washington, DC. Panelists: Gregory R. Carver, Ernst  & Young, Dallas, TX; Edward J. Leyden, Hartel, Kane, DeSantis, McDonald & Howe, Greenbelt, MD.

3:50pm   Employment Taxes and the Mobile Domestic Workforce Post-Huckaby. With employees often working and living in different states or being sent from state to state on short- and long-term assignments, panel will discuss income-tax withholding obligations of employers.  Moderator: William Weissman, Littler Mendelson, San Francisco, CA; Panelists: Professor Edward Zelinsky, Cardoza School of Law,Yeshiva University, New York, NY; Michelle Helm, Associate General Counsel, Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany, NY; Scott Mezistrano, American Payroll Association, Washington, DC; Gregory R. Carver, Ernst & Young, Dallas, TX.

4:50pm   Employment-Tax Practitioners Workshop. Group discussion among practitioners and government representatives of employment-tax issues faced in practice and of important issues that the Committee should consider pursuing. Moderator: GJ Stillson MacDonnell, Littler Mendelson, San Francisco, CA.  (This session will not be taped.)