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Thursday, October 27, 2022

• 11:30am - 12:00pm PDT

  Lunch

• 12:00pm - 12:15pm PDT

  Welcome Remarks

  Mark Duggan, the Trione Director of SIEPR, the Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics, »ÆÉ«µçÓ°

• 12:15pm - 1:30pm PDT

  Tax on Individuals: Equity and Efficiency

  • Kimberly Clausing, the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy, UCLA; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis in the US Department of the Treasury. 
  • Tyler Goodspeed, Kleinheinz Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Former Acting Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
  • Scott Hodge, President Emeritus and Senior Policy Advisor, the Tax Foundation.

  Moderator: Mark Wolfson, Former Chaired Professor and Senior Associate Dean at the »ÆÉ«µçÓ° Graduate School of Business; Founder and Managing Partner of Jasper Ridge Partners.

• 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT

  Corporate Tax: Tax-induced Distortions, Profit Shifting, and Location and Investment Decisions

  • Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, Professor of Economics, Duke University.
  • Alan Auerbach, the Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, UC Berkeley.
  • Marcus Heyland, Managing Director, Washington National Tax, KPMG US. 

  Moderator: Rebecca Lester, Associate Professor of Accounting, »ÆÉ«µçÓ° Graduate School of Business; SIEPR Faculty Fellow.

• 3:00pm - 3:15pm PDT

  Break

• 3:15pm - 4:30pm PDT

  State and Local Tax Issues in California

  • Michael Coleman, Creator of the California Local Government Finance Almanac; Principal Fiscal Policy Advisor to the League of California Cities.
  • Gabriel Petek, California Legislative Analyst. LAO.
  • Joshua Rauh, the Ormond Family Professor of Finance, »ÆÉ«µçÓ° Graduate School of Business. Senior Fellow at SIEPR. Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

  Moderator: Gopi Shah Goda, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, SIEPR.

• 4:30pm - 4:45pm PDT

  Break

• 4:45pm - 6:00pm PDT

  Keynote: Taxation as Moral and Civic Education

  • Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University; author of Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good?, and Democracy's Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times.

  Moderator: Mark Duggan, the Trione Director of SIEPR, the Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics, »ÆÉ«µçÓ°

• 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT

  Reception