Alex Cobham ■ Tax Justice Network annual conference, July 2017: Preliminary programme and registration
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GLOBAL TAX JUSTICE AT A CROSSROADS
SOUTHERN LEADERSHIP AND THE
CHALLENGES OF TRUMP AND BREXIT
City, University of London, 5-6 July 2017
Tax justice stands at a crossroads: after a period of sustained but partial progress, 2017 brings with it a strong risk of deterioration. This year’s annual conference will evaluate the extent of recent advances in international financial transparency, and against tax evasion and avoidance, and look ahead to the policy earthquakes likely to be wrought by the UK’s exit from the European Union, and the USA’s election of President Trump. With the UK at the head of the biggest global secrecy network, and the USA potentially the biggest threat to progress, tax justice stands at a crossroads.
At the same time, lower-income countries are more powerfully mobilised on tax justice issues than ever before, with Ecuador’s leadership of the G77 directed to the creation of a globally representative, intergovernmental tax body. Coupled with instability in the relationships between key high-income countries, this leaves the OECD’s effective role as the international rule-setter more uncertain than for many years.
Co-organised by the Association for Accountancy & Business Affairs (AABA), City, University of London (CityPERC), and the Tax Justice Network (TJN), this is the latest in an annual event series dating back to 2003. The events bring together researchers, academics, journalists, policy staff of civil society organisations, consultants and professionals, elected politicians and their researchers, government and international organisation officials. The purpose is to facilitate research, open-minded debate and discussion, and to generate ideas and proposals to inform and shape political initiatives and mobilisation.
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There is a small charge for attendance and refreshments during the two days. Participants are usually expected to finance their own travel, although applications from students and others with limited means for bursary support will be considered. More information about this conference is available from: [email protected].
Preliminary programme (as of May 2017)
DAY ONE – 5 July 2017
08h30 – 09h00 Registration and coffee
09h00 – 09h30 Welcome, introductions and framing: Global tax justice at a crossroads
Anastasia Nesvetailova (Director, CITYPERC)
Alex Cobham (Chief Executive, Tax Justice Network)
09h30 – 11h00 Session One: Tax Justice for Human Rights
Chair: Vera Mshana (Ford) – tbc
| Liz Nelson (Tax Justice Network) | Tax justice for women’s rights: After Colombia |
| Sergio Chaparro Hernández (CESR) | Global Tax Justice: A human rights approach |
| Frederik Heitmüller | ‘Our Tax System Should be…’ – Tracing the Evolution of Norms Guiding Tax Policy |
11h00 – 11h30 Coffee
11h30 – 13h00 Session Two: International Progress I
Chair: Naomi Fowler (Tax Justice Network)
| Rasmus Corlin Christensen (Copenhagen Business School) | Professional Competition in Global Tax Reform: Tax Transparency in Global Wealth Chains |
| Martin Hearson (LSE) | Transnational policy elites and the development of the international tax regime |
| Tovony Randriamanalina (Madagascar Revenue Authority) | MNE profits’ allocation methodologies: how to make rules workable in developing countries? |
13h00 – 14h00 Lunch
14h00 – 15h30 Parallel Session Three:
- International Progress II
Chair: Andres Knobel (Tax Justice Network)
| Celine Braumann (U. Wien)
| The Evil Brother: Rethinking Redistribution through Indirect Tax |
| Wouter Lips; Dries Lesage (U. Ghent) | TADAT: Institutional Setup and Lessons for Future Initiatives |
| Christoph Trautvetter | Topic: Evaluations of international progress since 2008, and the outlook today |
- Profit Shifting I
Chair: Sol Picciotto (BEPS Monitoring Group)
| Mustapha Ndajiwo (FIRS) | E-commerce: Innovation or Disruption? A Conundrum for Tax Policy |
| David Quentin (King’s/QMUL) | Unitary taxation by formulary apportionment of the entire value chain |
| Alexandra Readhead (U. Oxford) | Legal and Institutional Responses to Profit Shifting by Mining Multinationals in South Africa, Zambia, and Tanzania |
15h30 – 16h00 Tea break
16h00 – 17h30 Session Four: Scale of Tax Injustice I
Chair: Alex Cobham (Tax Justice Network)
| Maya Forstater (CGD) | Tax justice at a crossroads: Getting beyond the illicit financial flows big numbers |
| Javier Garcia-Bernardo; Jan Fichtner; Eelke M. Heemskerk; Frank W. Takes (CORPNET) | Uncovering Offshore Financial Centers: Conduits and Sinks in the Global Corporate Ownership Network |
| Petr Janský (Charles U., Prague) | Country-by-Country Reporting Data and Locations of European Banks’ Activities and Profits |
18h00: Pre-premiere buffet for speakers and Tax Justice Network staff, Frontline Club
19h00: Premiere of new tax justice documentary film:
The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
(if you’re not a speaker at this conference please do get your ticket quickly here to avoid disappointment)
Followed by Q&A panel: tbc
Venue: The Frontline Club, Marylebone
DAY TWO – 6 July 2017
08h50 – 09h00 Welcome to day two
Prem Sikka (AABA)
09h00 – 10h30 Session Five: The Race to the Bottom I
Chair: John Christensen (Tax Justice Network)
| Saila N. Stausholm (Copenhagen Business School) | Give us a break: The impact of tax holidays on developing countries |
| Henrique de Alencar (King’s) | Tax competition in R&D policies: how Patent Boxes in industrialized countries promote a race to the bottom |
| Richard Murphy (City); Andrew Baker (SPERI) | Tax spillovers: a new framework |
10h30 – 11h00 Coffee / tea break
11h00 – 12h30 Session Six: Financial Secrecy I
Chair: Markus Meinzer (Tax Justice Network)
| Moran Harari (Tax Justice Network) | A comprehensive review of the Financial Secrecy Index: Findings and implications for FSI 2018 |
| Lauri Finér; Antti Tokola (U. Helsinki) | The revolution of automatic exchange of information: How is the information utilised and what are the impacts? |
| Juan E. Valerdi (Universidad Nacional de La Plata de Argentina) | Blacklisting of ‘tax havens’ and evolution of policy approaches in 9 Latin American countries. Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, El Salvado, Peru, Nicaragua and Honduras |
12h30 – 13h30 Lunch
13h30 – 15h00 Session Seven: The Race to the Bottom II
Chair: Nick Shaxson (Tax Justice Network)
| Rose Bridger (Global Anti-Aerotropolis Movement) | Airport-linked special economic zones, aerotropolis projects and the race to the bottom |
| Julius Otusanya (U. Lagos) | The Impact of Tax Dodging on Tax Justice in Developing Countries: Some Theory and Evidence |
| Philip Reed | Do Tax Incentives “Sweeten” the deal-making in development? |
15h00 – 15h30 Coffee / tea break
15h30 – 16h30 Parallel Session Eight:
- Financial Secrecy II
Chair: Horiana Secara (Tax Justice Network)
| Paul Beckett (Synceritas) | Beneficial Ownership of Companies – G20 High Level Principles – A Paper Tiger? |
| Maximilian Heywood (TI) | Is the global anti-money laundering system fit for purpose? |
- Horizons
Chair: Cathy Cross (Tax Justice Network)
| Paul Harnett; Laura Bannister (World Basic Income) | Taking Tax To The Global Level: Combining Southern Initiatives To Create A World Basic Income |
| Henry Leveson-Gower (Promoting Economic Pluralism) | The 10 Years After [the crisis] Campaign, and Pluralist Economics etc |
16h30 – 17h30 Session Nine: Panel debate: Tax transparency: Should corporate tax returns be public?
Moderator: Charles Abugre (Tax Justice Network)
Presenter: Prem Sikka (AABA)
Respondents: tbc, including Richard Murphy (City)
17h30 – 18h00 Closing session
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