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08.00 – 08.30 | Registration | |
08.30 – 09.00 | Opening Remarks | Paschal Donohoe TD, Minister for Finance, Ireland & President of the Eurogroup |
09.00 – 10.30 |
Global Tax Policy – Where are we now, how did we get here and where are we going? |
Manal Corwin, Director, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA), OECD
Gerassimos Thomas, Director General, Directorate-General Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission Danny Werfel, Former IRS Commissioner |
10.30 – 11.00 | Tea/Coffee & Networking | |
11.00 – 12.45 |
Global Tax Implementation: How does the aspiration for reform become a reality? |
Benjamin Angel, Director, Directorate-General Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission
Professor Kimberly Clausing, Eric M. Zolt Professor of Tax Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law Alex Cobham, Chief Executive, Tax Justice Network, UK Will Morris, Vice-Chair BIAC, OECD & Global Head of Tax Policy, PwC Ramy Mohamed Youssef, Chair, UN International Negotiating Committee, Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation |
12.45 – 14.00 | Lunch |
14.00 – 15.15 | Unravelling the layers – Corporate tax complexity and (un)certainty | Speakers include:
Matt Damone J.D., Principal, TP Practice Leader, Baker Tilly US Aart Nolten, Partner, Transfer Pricing & International Tax, Deloitte Tax Lawyers Tom Roesser, GM, Tax Policy Counsel, Microsoft |
15.15 – 15.45 | Tea/Coffee & Networking | |
15.45 – 17.15 |
Universal Compliance, Enforcement, and Dispute Resolution – Is there a feasible global approach? |
Bob Hamilton, Chair, OECD Forum on Tax Administration (FTA) & Commissioner of the Canada Revenue Agency
Nina E. Olson, Executive Director, Center for Taxpayer Rights, US Brendan Crowley, Senior Counsel, IMF |
19.30 | Conference Dinner | The Honorable Society of King’s Inns |
09.00 – 10.15 |
Global Mobility – Taxing “work” in a digital world |
Karine Halimi-Guez, Group Head of Tax, Booking Holdings
Chris Sanger, Global Government Tax Leader & UK Tax Policy Leader, EY Stuart Tait, Partner, Chief Technology Officer, Tax & Legal, KPMG UK |
10.15 – 11.30 |
The Current “Climate” – Is tax policy being used to best effect for our planet? |
Maria Elena Scoppio, Director, Directorate-General Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission
Clare Costello, Assistant Secretary, Department of Finance, Ireland Colm Kelly, Chair, FFS & Global Leader – Corporate Sustainability, PwC International Ltd Clodagh Power, Senior Climate & G20/G7 Advisor to Chief Economist, OECD |
11.30 – 11.45 | Tea/Coffee & Networking | |
11.45 – 13.15 |
The future of global tax – Striving for consistency, cohesion and certainty |
Chair: Prof. Jay Rosengard, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Prof. Brian Arnold, Senior Adviser, Canadian Tax Foundation Feargal O’Rourke, Chair, IDA Ireland Tim Power, Director for Business and International Tax, HM Treasury & Chair, Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA), OECD Mekar Satria Utama, Director of International Taxation, Directorate General of Taxes, Indonesia Melissa Gierach, Managing Director, Tax Policy, DLA Piper US |
13.15 – 14.00 | Conference closing & light lunch |