Conference on income-shifting & the OECD - Thursday morning, 5/21/20

I’ve been remiss in not flogging this earlier – focusing on my current writing project – but tomorrow morning I’ll be participating in a very interesting international tax policy conference with a number of outstanding participants. It’s on Zoom, and is free, so anyone anywhere can watch whatever parts of it they like, subject only to having a computer or smartphone.

Sponsored by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and the UNC Tax Center, it’s called Responding to Income-Shifting by Multinational Corporations, and the link for it is here. You can register for it here.

Here is the agenda (all times are EST):

9:30 a.m. Welcome and Introduction: Mark Mazur, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

9:35 a.m. Keynote Address • Pascal Saint-Amans, OECD

9:50 a.m. Audience Q&A

10:00 a.m. Panel I. How Big a Problem is Income Shifting?:

Kimberly Clausing, Reed College
Scott Dyreng, Duke University
Leslie Robinson, Dartmouth College
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley
Edward Maydew, University of North Carolina (moderator)

10:45 a.m. Audience Q&A

11:00 a.m. Panel II. The OECD’s Response to Income Shifting
Manal Corwin, KPMG
Lisa De Simone, Stanford University
Victoria Perry, International Monetary Fund
Daniel Shaviro, NYU Law School
Thornton Matheson, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (moderator)

11:45 a.m. Audience Q&A

12:00 p.m. Event Concludes

I’m actually the second speaker on Panel II (although we’re listed above alphabetically), so I will be speaking from roughly 11:08 to 11:15. I’m planning to discuss the OECD’s Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 initiatives, although what exactly I’ll say remains somewhat flexible pending  the keynote address, which may offer updates (at least to me) that are of interest.