Tax Policy Conference 2017

Tax Policy Conference 2017: Do lawyers make a distinctive contribution to tax policy-making?

Tuesday 11 April 2017

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ’s College

9.30-10.00am: Registration and tea/coffee

10.00-10.40am

Adrian Sawyer (Canterbury, NZ), ‘Reflections on the contributions of lawyers to tax policymaking in New Zealand’

Discussant: Anne Fairpo (Temple Tax Chambers, IALS)

10.40-11.20am

Ann Kayis-Kumar (UNSW), ‘The importance of legal practitioners and scholars in tax policy design and development: An exploration and extension of the legal-economic literature’

Discussant: Maria Cecilia Fregni (Modena) (Response paper: 'Legal Academics’ and Practitioners’ Contribution to Tax-policy Making. Some Observations on the Subject')

11.20-11.40am: Tea/coffee break

11.40am-12.20pm

John Snape (Warwick), ‘Tax Legislation As The Expression of Political And Economic Possibility’

Discussant: Hans Gribnau (Tilburg, Leiden)

12.20-1.00pm

Gary Richards (Law Society), ‘Do lawyers make a distinctive contribution to tax policy making? A personal view’

Discussant: Emma Chamberlain (Pump Court Tax Chambers)

1.00-2.00pm: Lunch

2.00-2.30pm

Samantha Henderson (Harvard), ‘Reflections on Lobler and Mayes’

Discussant: Claire Peacock (Oxford, Cambridge)

2.30-2.40pm

John Avery Jones (Pump Court Tax Chambers), ‘The Keith Committee’

2.40-3.40pm

Victor Baker (HMRC), Eleanor Ebbatson (HMRC), ‘Do lawyers make a distinctive contribution to tax policy making? A view from HMRC’

Brian Cleave (Former Solicitor of Inland Revenue), ‘A reply’

3.40-4.00pm: Closing discussion and tea

4.00pm: Drinks (funded by Miller Partnership)