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Tax Governance Institute Webcast

Will the U.S. Adopt a Value-added Tax (VAT)?

Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (ET)
Format: Live Video Webcast

Projected federal budget deficits are leading tax policy makers to look for additional revenue sources. Alan Greenspan has said, "I think that there is a fairly significant probability that the least worst solution to the [budget] problem will end up to be a value-added tax, because it's the only thing that raises revenue in significant quantities without significantly impacting on the economy."

The Tax Governance Institute will devote its next video Webcast session to an examination of the question whether the United States will adopt a VAT as a new revenue source. The session will examine the country’s revenue needs; discuss why a VAT, as compared to other consumption taxes, could be a likely new revenue source; compare existing VAT systems in other countries, review the Canadian experience in structuring and implementing a VAT; and review other realistic options for the United States.

Moderated by Hank Gutman, Director of the Tax Governance Institute, KPMG LLP and former chief of staff on the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, panelists will include Richard Bird, Professor Emeritus and Associate of the International Institute of Business, Rotman School of Management, and Senior Fellow, Institute for Municipal Finance and Governance, Munk Centre for International Affairs, the University of Toronto; Bill Gale, the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution; Wally Hellerstein, the Francis Shackelford Professor of Taxation, University of Georgia Law School; and

Harley Duncan, Managing Director, Washington National Tax, KPMG LLP, and former executive director of the Federation of Tax Administrators.