Tax Bootcamp 2024
The 2024 Tax Bootcamp was hosted on 19 June 2024 at LBS Campus (Sussex Place); the agenda is available here.
The event was co-hosted by Marcel Olbert (LBS) and Rebecca Lester (Stanford GSB) and brought together leading policymakers, practitioners, and scholars working to discuss two increasingly important trends: AI for businesses’ tax functions and tax policy for sustainability.
The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development at LBS prepared a three-part series of an informative blog summarizing the key insights of the event. Here are the links to the three blogs:
Tax Strategies and the Technological Revolution: Accounting for AI
Taxes for Climate Action Across the World
New Research on Taxes and Transparency Regulation for Sustainability
Global Tax Conference 2023
The 2023 LBS Stanford Global Tax conference was hosted on 13-14 June 2023 at LBS Campus (Sussex Place); the agenda is available here.
The event was co-hosted by Marcel Olbert (LBS) and Rebecca Lester (Stanford GSB) and brought together leading policymakers, practitioners, and scholars working on today’s most pressing global tax issues.
A key theme was taxes and sustainability. The keynote by Alenka Turnsek, EMEIA sustainability tax leader at EY, enlightened the participants about today’s more than 3,000 environmental taxes in place and stressed that “green” taxes are not intended to be paid indefinitely, but should drive action. A summary of the keynote and an overview of the event are available here.
Academic papers addressing tax and public finance in developing countries, carbon leakage to developing countries, effectiveness of emissions taxes in tackling air pollution, and wealth taxation and very wealthy migration were also presented and interactively discussed during the two-day event.
Below, you can find further information on the speakers and links to the academic papers presented at the conference.
Speaker profiles for Conference Day 1 (click on the names):
Keynote on the Role of Taxes in Corporate ESG Strategies:
Alenka Turnsek (EMEIA Sustainability Tax Leader, EY)
Panel Discussion on International Corporate Tax Reform and Global Tax Equality:
Dr. Achim Pross (Dep. Director, OECD CTPA),
Timothy Power (Dep. Director, Corporate Tax U.K. HM Treasury),
Pat Brown (Co-Lead National Tax Services, PwC Washington D.C.),
Linda Herms (Business Tax Partner, EY Netherlands)
Prof. Christoph Spengel (University of Mannheim)
Presentation and Discussion of Empirical Tax Research
Rebecca Lester (Stanford GSB, Link to abstract of paper)
Michael Devereux (Oxford CBT)
Dinner Keynote on “Lessons from International Tax Policymaking”:
Raffaele Russo (Chiomenti, previously at OECD and Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance)
Links to academic papers presented on Conference Day 2 (click on the titles):
Two-tier Tax Systems and Firms: Evidence from Brazil
(presenter: Joana Naritomi, LSE)
How Do Banks Compete? Lessons from an Ecuadorian Loan Tax
(presenter: Rebecca De Simone, LBS)
Carbon Leakage to Developing Countries
(presenter: Diego Kaenzig, Northwestern)
How Effective Are Emission Taxes in Reducing Air Pollution?
(presenter: Martin Jacob, WHU)
Taxing Capital in a Globalized World: The Effects of Automatic Information Exchange
(presenter: Niels Johannesen, University of Copenhagen)
The Geography of Capital Allocation in the Euro Area
(presenter: Antonio Copolla, Stanford GSB)
Short-Term Tax Cuts, Long-Term Stimulus
(presenter: Joseba Martinez, LBS)
Endowment Taxes, University Research and Corporate Innovation
(presenter: Aruhn Venkat, UT Austin)
Wealth Taxation and the International Migration Patterns of the Very Wealthy
(presenter: Mathilde Muñoz, UC Berkeley)
Links to poster presentations by PhD students (click on the titles):
Daniel Weishaar (LMU): Homes Incorporated: Offshore Ownership of Real Estate in the U.K.
Kaitlyn Kroeger (UT Austin): Consequences of Public Accounting Offshoring
Oliver Xie (Stanford): Export Denomination with Risk Sharing
Inga Schulz (U Mannheim): Corporate Taxation and Environmental Investment
Adrienne DePaul (U Conn): Tax Havens and Reputational Costs
Sophia Wickel (ZEW/U Mannheim): The Effect of Transfer Pricing Documentation Requirements on Tax Compliance Costs and Administrative Costs
Max Velthoven (EY/U Amsterdam): General anti-abuse rule
Sarah Winter (U Mannheim): OECD Pillar 1 – Implications for Developing Countries
Marcel Olbert 