Events
TAX RESEARCH SEMINARS
The Centre for Business Taxation holds tax research seminars throughout the term. This term two of the seminars have outside speakers of particular interest to members of the law faculty, possibly not just those working on tax. Members of the Faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend. If you would like to know more about these seminars more generally please contact Judith.freedman@law.ox.ac.uk
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Wednesday 4th November
12.30-2pm Andrew Cormack Seminar Room, Said Business School.
Steven McGrady, Senior Research Associate, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation (formerly a partner in KPMG and Row and Mawe (solicitors))
Tax Clearances in the UK - a Descriptive and Evaluative Study.
Steven is writing a paper for the Centre on the problem of uncertainty in tax law and the role of statutory and non-statutory clearances in attempting to deal with this issue in the current tax system.
Please do feel free to bring along sandwiches.
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Friday 13th November
12.45pm-2pm SR14 Said Business School.
Neil Buchanan, George Washington University Law School, currently visiting scholar at Cornell Law School - http://www.law.gwu.edu/Faculty/profile.aspx?id=11219
Neil is an economist and a lawyer. He will speak about his paper in The George Washington Law Review [Vol. 77:1237]
"What Do We Owe Future Generations?"
Sandwich lunch provided on this occasion but please notify jane.ohare@law.ox.ac.uk if you wish to attend so that we can make the catering arrangements. Please notify her of any special dietary requirements.
Abstract:
In the United States, it is common for legal scholars, economists,
politicians and others to claim that we are selfishly harming "our
children and grandchildren" by (among many other things) running
large government budget deficits. This article first asks two broad
questions: (1) Do we owe future generations anything at all as a
philosophical matter? and (2) If we do owe something to future
generations, how should we balance their interests against our
own? The short answers are "Probably" and "We really are not sure."
Finding only general answers to these general questions, I then look
specifically at U.S. fiscal policy and its effects on
conventionally-measured living standards, exploring (using standard
utilitarian and Rawlsian analyses) whether we are currently doing
enough to secure the prosperity of future generations. It turns out
that even pessimistic forecasts of economic growth are so promising
that we could arguably either stop worrying about future generations'
economic well-being or even enact policies to shift economic
well-being from the future to today. The flaw in that reasoning,
however, lies in the unequal distribution of our economic prosperity,
with a gap between rich and poor that is profoundly troubling. Even
if future growth turns out to be as high as current forecasts
predict, there is a very real chance that the least among us will not
see their living standards rise at all, even as the more fortunate
ascend to untold levels of affluence.
I thus argue that a better approach to analyzing intergenerational
issues is to view them as straightforward matters of distributive
justice, focusing on how policies change the distribution of incomes
across time as well as currently. Such an approach simplifies the
analysis and allows us to protect the interests of our children and
grandchildren in a more meaningful and long-lasting sense.
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Wednesday 10th February, 2010
Law Board Room; St Cross Building - 5 - 6.30pm
Issues relating to corporate residence Philip Baker QC and David Goldberg QC Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers
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Wednesday 24th February, 2010
Law Board Room; St Cross Building - 5 - 6.30pm
Economic Principles for Taxing Multinational Companies – Professor Michael Devereux, Director OUCBT
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Wednesday 3rd March, 2010
Law Board Room; St Cross Building - 5 - 6.30pm
The relationship between tax law and accounting- loan relationships as a case study, followed by drinks
Rebecca Bland and Douglas French, Clifford Chance
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London School of Economics
Financial Markets Group
TAXATION SEMINARS
Michaelmas Term 2009
Please note change in venue to the New Academic Building
This year’s programme of Taxation Seminars will, as usual, take place monthly on Monday evenings, in term times, from 6.30pm until 8.00pm. In a change from previous years, the seminars will now be held in NAB204, on the second floor of the New Academic Building (54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, corner Sardinia Street).
Wine, soft drinks, and sandwiches will be available from just before 6.30 and during the seminar.
October 26th Are targeted anti-avoidance rules the answer to anti-avoidance?
David Goldberg QC (Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers)
November 16th Taxing foreign profits: Where to next?
Will Morris (GE and European Tax Policy Forum)
December 7th tbc
January 18th Changing places - the implications of the new VAT place of supply rules for the taxation of businesses
Greg Sinfield (Lovells)
February 8th The Mirrlees Report: Key findings
Tim Besley (London School of Economics)
March 8th tbc
April 26th tbc
May 17th tbc
The LSE Financial Markets Group grateful acknowledges financial support
from STICERD and the LSE Department of Law for these seminars.
For updated information on the seminars, please check http://fmg.lse.ac.uk/events/ or http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/events/events-firstpage.htm?
We look forward to seeing you. Please feel free to bring interested colleagues.
Jonathan Leape, Ian Roxan
Susan Ball, Ross Fraser, Judith Freedman, Malcolm Gammie and David Oliver
21 April 2009 UPDATE:
LSE Taxation Seminar, Summer 2009
Due to the shift in the timing of this year's Budget, we have decided to reschedule the Budget and Finance Bill seminar. Due to conflicts on May 18th, the rescheduled seminar will be held on June 1st:
June 1st "The Budget and Finance Bill: A panel discussion"
The seminar will not meet on April 27th or May 18th.
Jonathan Leape
Workshop on Taxation: A new agenda for CSR and Development?
The seminar is part of an ESRC-funded seminar series on "CSR and Development" organised with Middlesex University Business School, Oxford University and Article 13
Place: Bowthorpe Room,
Sportspark,
University of East Anglia
Date: Friday 29th May 2009
Time: 14:00 – 17:30
Speakers include:
*John Christensen, Tax Justice Network
*Alex Cobham, Christian Aid
*Prof. Judith Freedman, Oxford University
*Prof. Mick Moore, IDS, Sussex University
*Prof. Ronen Palan, Birmingham University
*David Williams, KPMG
For further details please contact Sumiko Yamashita
(s.yamashita@uea.ac.uk), School of International
Development, University of East Anglia.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY LAW FACULTY TAXATION GUEST LECTURES –
HILARY AND TRINITY 2009
The following tax guest lectures will take place on Wednesdays in the Law Board Room at the Law Faculty, St. Cross at 5.00 – 6.30pm unless otherwise stated. Please click on event title to see time and location.
Events during the last year
TAX RESEARCH SEMINARS:
"What do we owe future generations?"
Organised in conjunction with Oxford Law Faculty
Friday 13 November 2009 at 12.45
Speaker: Neil Buchanan
TAX RESEARCH SEMINARS:
Organised in conjunction with The Centre for Business Taxation
Friday 6 November 2009 at 12.45
TAX RESEARCH SEMINARS:
Tax Clearances in the UK - a Descriptive and Evaluative Study
Organised in conjunction with Centre for Business Taxation
Wednesday 4 November 2009 at 12.30
Speaker: Steven McGrady
TAX RESEARCH SEMINARS:
Organised in conjunction with The Centre for Business Taxation
Friday 30 October 2009 at 12.45
TAX RESEARCH SEMINARS:
Organised in conjunction with Centre for Business Taxation
Wednesday 28 October 2009 at 12.30
TAX RESEARCH SEMINARS:
Organised in conjunction with The Centre for Business Taxation
Friday 23 October 2009 at 12.45
TAX RESEARCH SEMINARS:
Organised in conjunction with Centre for Business Taxation
Wednesday 21 October 2009 at 12.30
TAX RESEARCH SEMINARS:
Organised in conjunction with The Centre for Business Taxation
Friday 16 October 2009 at 12.45
TAX RESEARCH SEMINARS:
Organised in conjunction with Centre for Business Taxation
Wednesday 14 October 2009 at 12.30
Oxford University Law Faculty Taxation Guest Lectures - Hilary and Trinity 2009:
Recent tax avoidance developments
Wednesday 13 May 2009 at 17.00
Speaker: Michael Conlon QC, Pump Court Tax Chambers and James Bullock , Partner, McGrigors, Solicitors
Oxford University Law Faculty Taxation Guest Lectures - Hilary and Trinity 2009:
Tax and transfer pricing
Wednesday 29 April 2009 at 17.00
Speaker: John Neighbour
Oxford University Law Faculty Taxation Guest Lectures - Hilary and Trinity 2009:
The ECJ and Corporate Tax – Recent Developments
Thursday 23 April 2009 at 17.00
Speaker: Malcolm Gammie QC
Oxford University Law Faculty Taxation Guest Lectures - Hilary and Trinity 2009:
‘My favourite tax cases’
Wednesday 11 March 2009 at 17.00
Speaker: Sir Andrew Park, formerly Mr Justice Park (Chancery Division), and Andrew Park QC of the revenue law bar.
Oxford University Law Faculty Taxation Guest Lectures - Hilary and Trinity 2009:
Economic principles for taxing multi-national corporations
Wednesday 4 March 2009 at 17.00
Speaker: Professor Michael Devereux
Oxford University Law Faculty Taxation Guest Lectures - Hilary and Trinity 2009:
Corporate residence for tax purposes plus recent ECJ case law on transfer of companies, exit taxes etc
Organised in conjunction with Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers
Wednesday 11 February 2009 at 17.00
Speaker: Philip Baker QC and David Goldberg QC
Oxford University Law Faculty Taxation Guest Lectures - Hilary and Trinity 2009:
“Everything you always wanted to know about T*x (but were afraid to ask)” - A Career in Tax
Organised in conjunction with Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers
Wednesday 11 February 2009 at 12.30
Speaker: Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers team
Oxford University Law Faculty Taxation Guest Lectures - Hilary and Trinity 2009:
Inheritance tax planning and the reservation of benefit rules
Wednesday 21 January 2009 at 15.00
Speaker: Emily Campbell
