ABA SECTION OF TAXATION
• DATE: February 2 - 4, 2006 • LOCATION: San Diego, CA
SPONSORS: Section of Taxation
Committee Programs
VAT & Other Consumption Taxes
Date:
2/04/2006
Start Time:
8:30 AM
End Time:
11:30 AM
Chair:
Victoria J. Perry, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC
Agenda:
8:30am Committee Business and Administration.
8:45am Consumption Tax Aspects of the Report of the President''s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform. The panel will discuss the report''s Growth and Investment Tax Plan (GITP), and as background analyze the relationship between the classic VAT and the consumption tax proposed here. Why not the VAT? The Advisory Panel''s rationale for adopting the GITP recommendations will be examined. The panel will also address the international implications of the GITP proposal, including the question of border adjustability. Panelists: Peter Merrill, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Washington, DC; Itai Grinbergm, Presidents Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, Washington, DC; Professor Reuven Avi-Yonah, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI.
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