Tulane-Boston College Tax Roundtable
Event Description
Co-sponsored by Tulane’s Murphy Institute and Tulane Law School, the Tulane Tax Roundtable brings together tax scholars from around the country, resident Tulane faculty and Tulane students for discussion and debate about important tax policy issues of our time. The roundtable showcases the drafts and works-in-progress of its participants and subjects these works to rigorous analysis in a discussant-driven workshop format.
This year's roundtable will feature presentations from Tessa Davis of the University of South Carolina School of Law, Zachary Liscow of Yale Law School, Miranda Fleischer of the University of San Diego School of Law, David Gamage of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Shu-Yi Oei of Boston College Law School, Matthias Kasper of The Murphy Institute, and Diane Ring of Boston College Law School.
9:00 am – 9:45 am Manoj Viswanathan (UC Hastings)
Hyperlocal Responses to the SALT Deduction Limitation
Discussant: Steven Sheffrin (Tulane)
9:45 am – 10:30 am Miranda Perry Fleischer (U of San Diego)
A New Look at Old Money: Wealth 2.0, Taxing Wealth 2.0, Wealth 2G
Discussant: Diane Ring (Boston College)
10:30 – 10:45 am
Break
10:45 am – 11:30 am Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)
Legislation and Comment: The Making Of the § 199a Regulations
(with Leigh Osofsky)
Discussant: Zack Liscow (Yale)
11:30 am – 12:15 Matthias Kasper (Tulane)
Do Audits Deter or Provoke Future Tax Noncompliance? Evidence on Self-Employed Taxpayers (with Erich Kirchler)
Discussant: James Alm (Tulane)
12:15 noon – 1:45 pm
Lunch
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm Tessa Davis (U of South Carolina)
Freezing the Future: Elective Egg Freezing and the Limits of the Medical Expense Deduction
Discussant: Khrista McCarden (Tulane)
2:30 pm – 315 pm Zack Liscow (Yale)
Moral Commitments and Inequality: A Dilemma
Discussant: Manoj Viswanathan l (UC Hastings)
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm – 4:15 pm David Gamage (Indiana)
Redistribution versus Progressivity (tentative title)
Discussant: Miranda Perry Fleischer (U of San Diego)
