Event

Upcoming NFTC 2007 Tax Committee Fall Meeting

 

 

The annual NFTC Fall Tax Committee Meeting will be held inWashington, DC, September 20^th – 21^st.  The meeting will begin with a reception and dinner the evening of Thursday, September 20^th.  The meeting will continue Friday morning, September 21st and end with a reception and lunch.  Michael Mundaca, Deputy,Assistant Secretary to the Treasury for International Tax Affairs, has been invited as the honored keynote dinner speaker.

 

The meeting will kick off with a panel of senior legislative tax staff moderated by Nick Giordano of Washington Council Ernst & Young.¬† The panelists will discuss tax legislation and offer their forecast for the remainder of the 110^th Congress and their predictions for the next session.¬† Tax officials from the U.S. Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service will round out this year”s agenda.¬† For more information, contact Catherine Schultz, Vice President for Tax Policy, at cschultz@nftc.org.¬†¬†¬†

 

 

The National Foreign Trade Council

Tax Committee Fall 2007 Meeting

September 20^th & 21^th

 

The Capital Hilton, 1001 Sixteenth Street, NW

Washington, DC 20006

 

Agenda

September 20^th, Senate Room

 

6:00-7:00         Reception

7:00-9:00        Dinner

                        Michael Mundaca, Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs (confirmed)

 

September 21^th, South American AB

 

8:00-8:45         Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

8:45-9:00         Opening Remarks

                             

                              Jim McCarthy, NFTC Tax Committee Chair

 

9:00-10:30       Legislative Update and Outlook

Ø      Nick Giordano, Washington Council Ernst & Young LLP

Ø      Mark Prater, Chief Tax Counsel, Republican Staff, Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate

Ø      Patrick Heck, Chief Tax Counsel, Democratic Staff, Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate

Ø      Jon Traub,, Tax Counsel, Republican Staff, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives

Ø      John Buckley, Tax Counsel, Democrat Staff, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives

10:30-10:45     Break

 

10:45-12:00     Tax Treaties Update—Views from Treasury Officials

Ø      Will Morris, General Electric

Ø      Carol Dunahoo, Baker McKenzie

Ø      Gretchen Sierra, Attorney-Advisor, U.S. Treasury Department

Ø      Avril Haines, Deputy Chief Counsel, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Majority Staff

Ø      Frank Ng, Deputy Commissioner (International) Large & Mid-Size Businesses,
                        Internal Revenue Service

 

12:00-12:30     IRS Update

                       

Frank Ng, Deputy Commissioner (International) Large & Mid-Size Businesses, Internal Revenue Service (iconfirmed)

                         

 12:30-2:00      Lunch, California Room

                             

Candi Wolff, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, (confirmed)