Centre for Tax Law Workshop

 

Friday 13th March 2009 Speaker: Professor Peter Birch Sorensen, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, currently chairman of the Danish Economic Council, an advisory body to the Danish government.  Prof Sorensen is also currently Chairman of the Danish Economic Council, a body which advises the Danish government and parliament. He is also a member of the IFS Mirrleees Review team and will be considering not only corporate income tax reform but also alternative designs for capital income tax reforms and issues in the coordination between corporate income tax and personal income tax. The chapter on the Mirrlees Revioew is already available on the IFS website – www.ifs.org.uk. Those with access to the Canadian Tax Journal will find an important article by him at 2007 Canadian Tax Journal 557. Topic "The Nordic Dual Income Tax - A Blueprint for Tax Reform in the UK?".Dr Sorensen will be presenting work from a recently completed paper which he has written with an America co-author.   He has also been involved in the Mirrlees review for the IFS here in the UK and will end his presentation with a description of the reform proposal from the Mirrlees review which includes the ACE system for corporate tax originated by Malcolm Gammie.  This Workshop will take place at Queens' College Cambridge and will run from 10.10am (Participants will need to register beforehand) until 3.45pmTo book for this workshop please contact the Centre for Tax Law - ctl@law.cam.ac.uk