2015 Tax Conference Program

2015 Symposium

1:00pm - 5:00pm

Panel: "Interest and Other Financing Payments: The OECD's BEPS Action 4"

Moderator: Ken Klassen, University of Waterloo

Panelists:

Albert Baker, Global Tax Policy Leader, Deloitte, Toronto

Jennifer Blouin (accounting), University of Pennsylvania

David Duff (law), University of British Columbia

Michael Kobetsky (law), University of Melbourne

Kevin Markle (accounting), University of Iowa

6:00pm

Dinner

At participants expense, local restaurant TBD

Tuesday, June 2

7:30am

Event Description

8:30am

55 minutes per paper, divided as follows:

• 20 minutes author
• 10 minutes discussant #1 (academic)
• 10 minutes discussant #2 (Deloitte)
• 15 minute audience discussion

Art Cockfield (Queen's University) and Carl MacArthur (Western University), Country-by-Country Reporting and Commercial Confidentiality

Discussants: Alex Edwards (University of Toronto); Shiraj Keshvani, Deloitte discussant

9:55am

Andrew Bird (Carnegie-Mellon University), Governance and Taxes: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity

Discussants: Suzanne Paquette (Laval University); Craig Cowan, Deloitte discussant

11:20am

Tim Edgar (York University), Risk-Based Overrides of Share Ownership as Specific Anti-Avoidance Rules

Discussants: Lindsay Tedds (University of Victoria); Hugh Chasmar, Deloitte discussant

1:15pm

Alex Edwards (University of Toronto), Taxes and Peer Effects

Discussants: Joanna Garcia (University of Waterloo); Andrew Oldham, Deloitte discussant

Colin Campbell (Western University), New CTF Book: "Timing and Income Taxation"

Ben Alarie (University of Toronto), Experimenting with IBM's Watson re Employed vs. Self Employed

3:00pm

Scott Legree (University of Waterloo) and Micahel Wolfson (University of Ottawa), Private Companies, Professionals, and Income Splitting

Discussants: Frances Woolley (Carleton University); Paul Walker, Deloitte discussant