The Commission’s 2013 Annual Conference and Committee Meetings are July 22–25, 2013 in San Diego, California. Please register online by clicking the picture below (only the July 24 half-day seminar, luncheon, and banquet carry a fee--all committee meetings and the Commission's annual business meeting are free to attend).
The half-day seminar on Wednesday features three presentations by nationally-recognized experts on state tax and fiscal topics:
- Jeff Friedman of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, State Tax Assessments and Controversies: The Lay of the Land
- Marilyn Wethekam and Jordan Goodman, of Horwood, Marcus & Berk, Third-party Enforcement Actions—Infringement on Tax Administration and Policy, with discussant Dan Bucks
- Kim Rueben of Tax Policy Center, The Great Recession: Impacts and Outlook for State and Local Finance
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Commission’s Annual Legislative Day a Success
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Last month, state tax administrators participating in the Commission’s annual legislative day availed themselves of an opportunity to present their issues and concerns to their state’s congressional representatives and senators, including Montana’s Department of Revenue Director Mike Kadas and Business & Income Taxes Division Administrator Gene Walborn (pictured above to the left and right of Montana Senator Max Baucus, along with, from the left side, MTC Counsel Sheldon Laskin and Legislative Consultant Len Lucchi). |
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Georgetown Law Offers State & Local Tax Certificate Program
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State and Local Taxation (SALT) is an area of practice that offers promising career opportunities in major accounting firms, state and local revenue departments, and law firms.
Georgetown's SALT curriculum covers the principal sources of state revenue as well as federal constitutional limitations on state taxing power and the procedures used to resolve SALT disputes. This certificate program may be completed as a standalone program on a part-time basis, or in conjunction with the LL.M. degree in Taxation.
Click here to go to the program’s website for more information.
Click here for a copy of the SALT Certificate Program Brochure |
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NGA Releases Guiding Principles on Federal Tax Reform
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The National Governors Association (NGA) released Guiding Principles on Federal Tax Reform on March 13, 2013, in preparation for comprehensive federal tax reform in the 113th Congress. NGA had earlier formed a task force to develop concrete suggestions for federal tax reform that are consistent with the intertwined interests of states and the federal government. For more on the task force and the development of the guiding principles, click here.
For a copy of the Guiding Principles on Federal Tax Reform, click here. |
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Latest Issue of the Review Available Online
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 The latest issue of the MTC Review has been released. This issue contains three articles written by current MTC staff members and by former policy research interns. The first, “The Überexpert,” is by Harold Jennings, senior audit supervisor, and Robert Schauer, computer audit specialist. “An Analysis of Business to Consumer Electronic Commerce Sales” is an article by Yi Feng and Matthew Wade, who were policy research interns at the Commission during the summer of 2012. And finally, “Pyramiding, Productive Efficiency, and Revenue under a Gross Receipts Tax,” is by Andre Barbe, a policy research intern during the summer 2011 and a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Rice University.
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