Today is graduation at Villanova Law School. It is a beautiful day and it will be nice to see families and students beaming. One of the highlights for me last academic year was participating in the Second Annual International Taxpayer Rights Conference in Vienna. The conference had a diverse group of speakers, with tax administrators, practitioners and academics from all over the world.
The conference organizers have posted videos of all of the panels and I link them below. An agenda with a little more description and information about the panelists is here.
Links to Video of Panels
- Panel #1:The Framework and Justification for Taxpayer Rights
- Panel #2:Privacy and Transparency
- Panel #3:Protection of Taxpayer Rights in Multi-Jurisdictional Disputes
- Panel #4:Access to Rights: the Right to Quality Service in an Era of Reduced Agency Budgets
- Panel #5:Fireside Chat with Inspectors General, Ombuds, and Advocates
- Panel #6:Penalties and General Anti-Avoidance Rules
- Panel #7:Role of Intergovernmental Actors in Furthering and Protecting Taxpayer Rights
- Panel #8:Building Trust I: Transforming Cultures of Tax Agencies and Taxpayers
- Panel #9:Building Trust II: Safeguards on Tax Agency Power
NTA Testimony Today on Tax Reform
For more viewing pleasure, the National Taxpayer Advocate will be testifying today about tax reform before the Oversight Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee. The hearing is scheduled for 9 AM and the committee live streams and archives the event, which can be found here. More information on the hearing is here
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