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Canadian Tax Foundation World Tax Conference Opens in Florida

Tax-news.com

28 February 2000

The Canadian Tax Foundation is holding a World Tax Conference this week, February 26 - March 1 at the Westin Innisbrook Tampa Bay, Florida.

Key issues being discussed are:

With the advent of electronic commerce, the Internet and global trading, the basic concepts of international taxation have come under pressure. Can traditional concepts take the strain? What alternatives should be considered? Can countries act alone? What are the tensions on multilateral cooperation?

Even the taxation of individuals has changed with electronic funds transfers, the rush for asset protection, and the rise of tax havens. How should migrating individuals be taxed in the jurisdiction from which they are departing? Do the existing rules for taxation of employment and business income still work in an era of peripatetic workers? How should countries react in taxing internationally mobile capital?

Governments have reacted to the stress on their tax bases in a variety of ways. Do general anti-avoidance rules work? Do statutory rules and regulations provide the certainty required in international taxation? How can taxpayers and tax administrators work together to create and maintain predictable, fair, and efficient tax systems?

Almost 100 speakers include:

Michel Vanden Abeele, Director - General of Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission

John Avery Jones, Speechly Bircham, England

David A. Ward, Davies Ward & Beck, Canada

Jacques Sasseville, OECD, France

Charles E. McLure, Jr., Hoover Institution, Stanford University, United States of America

Rosemarie Portner, Oppenhoff & Rädler, Germany

Chas Roy-Chowdhury Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, England

Mary Walsh, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ireland

P. Mark Meredith, KPMG, Canada

Philip D. Morrison, Deloitte & Touche, United States of America

Vincent Oratore, Merrill Lynch International, England

Howard J. Kellough, Fraser Milner, Canada

Albert J. Rädler, Oppenhoff & Rädler, Germany

For further information, contact the Canadian Tax Foundation Suite 1200 595 Bay Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M5G 2N5 Phone Number: (416)599-0283 Toll-Free within North America: (877)733-0283 Fax Number: (416)599-9283

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