Global Tax Conference at NYU

On Friday, October 28, from 8 am to 4:30, we'll be hosting a conference at NYU Law School (in Vanderbilt Hall, room 210) entitled Divergent Country Views of Base Erosion and Profit-Shifting. This is a follow-up to the June 1 conference on OECD-BEPS that we co-sponsored in Amsterdam with that event's hosts (and co-sponsors this time as well), the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law.  More information, including re. how to register, is available here.

The conference will feature divergent views - the title is definitely right about that - from academics, practitioners, and business people from the U.S., the EU, and Brazil, regarding OECD-BEPS, the EU state aid cases, country-by-country reporting, and less-developed-countries' issues with treaties.  Indeed, here is the schedule:

8:15 AM – 9:45 AM:  Panel 1:  European Commission State Aid Cases

• Dan Shaviro (NYU Law) (moderator)

• Itai Grinberg (Georgetown Law Center)

• Hein Vermeulen (University of Amsterdam)

• Dennis Webber (University of Amsterdam)

9:45 AM – 10:00 AM:  Coffee Break

10:00 – 11:30 AM:  Panel 2: Predictive Value of BEPS Country-by-Country Reports

• Joshua Blank (NYU Law) (moderator)

• Steve Wrappe (KPMG)

• David Ernick (PwC)

• Reena Bhatt (Geller & Company)

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM:  Lunch Break

 Afternoon Session (Vanderbilt Hall Room 204)

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM:  Panel 3: Less Developed Countries and Tax Treaties

• Rick Reinhold (Willkie Farr & Gallagher) (moderator)

• Steve Dean (Brooklyn Law School)

• Lily Faulhaber (Georgetown Law Center)

• Michael Lennard (UN – by video)

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Coffee Break

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Panel 4: US Compliance with the OECD BEPS Project

• Mitchell Kane (NYU Law) (moderator)

• Stephen Shay (Harvard Law School)

• Dennis Webber (University of Amsterdam)

• Gustavo Vettori (Fundação Getúlio Vargas)

4:30 PM:  Concluding Remarks