24th Annual Tax Policy & Practice Symposium 2023 | Tax Council Policy Institute | 11 May 2023 | The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C., 1150 22nd St NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA

Businesses face competing forces in the United States and globally. Government budgets – already weakened by the pandemic and war – face slowing economic growth, rising interest rates, growing healthcare costs, and unsustainable entitlement spending for aging populations. Trade and investment trends have shifted from globalization to a national or regional focus, as economic and national security concerns dominate discussion and companies consider reshoring or near-shoring some of their operations. Add to this concerns about rising economic immobility and a lack of understanding of corporate taxes, especially in the cross-border context, and it is not surprising to see a growing number of proposals aimed at greater transparency and higher taxes on business. In this environment, the development of sound and durable tax policy depends on mutual trust among policymakers, business, investors, and the public.

Join us at the 24th Annual Tax Policy & Practice Symposium as we examine the competing forces and the role of business in shaping the policy response to growing challenges. Over our two days together, leaders of the tax community will consider:
• The budget facts and options to bring spending and revenues into balance
• The role of income taxes and alternative tax bases in meeting governments’ revenue needs, and the political prospects for change
• The future of global tax policy whether implementation of the OECD’s two-pillar agreement fails or succeeds
• The implications of the increasing focus on ESG reporting and tax transparency
• Prospects for effectively channeling tax administration resources and promoting comprehensive cross-border dispute resolution for competing claims of jurisdiction to tax business profits

2023 Speakers

Indermit Gill
Chief Economist, World Bank

Manal Corwin
Director, Centre for Tax Policy & Administration, OECD

Barbara Angus
Global Tax Policy Leader, EY

Brandon Baker
Global Tax Director, Koch Capabilities, LLC

Tim Berger
Senior Vice President-Global Head of Tax, Zoetis

Jennifer Best
Acting Deputy Commissioner, Large Business & International, Internal Revenue Service

Stephen Bonovich
Vice President, Tax, Agilent Technologies

Pat Brown
Washington National Tax Services Co-Leader, PwC

George Callas
Executive Vice President of Public Finance, Arnold Ventures

Mary Duffy
Managing Director, Andersen

Michelle Edkins
Managing Director, Investment Stewardship, BlackRock

Nikole Flax
Commissioner, Large Business and International Division, Internal Revenue Service

Tadd Fowler
Senior Vice President - Treasurer and Global Tax Operations, Procter & Gamble

Jason Furman
Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Marc Goldwein
Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Armando Gomez
Partner, Tax, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Michael Graetz
Columbia Alumni Professor Emeritus of Tax Law, Columbia Law School

Hank Gutman
Of Counsel, Ivins Phillips & Barker

Michelle Hanlon
Howard W. Johnson Professor and Professor of Accounting, MIT Sloan School of Management

Sharon Heck
Chief Tax Officer, Intel Corporation

Ross Kearney
Corporate Vice President, Tax, Raytheon Technologies

Alyson Lawrence
Vice President, Global Taxation, Johnson & Johnson

Thornton Matheson
Technical Assistance Advisor, International Monetary Fund

Diana McCutchen
Partner, Busines Tax Services, Deloitte Tax

Michael McDonald
Managing Director, Transfer Pricing, International Tax and Transaction Services, EY

Chris Miller
Senior Vice President, Tax, T-Mobile

Maria Minetti
Chief Tax Officer and Treasurer, CBRE

William Morris
Deputy Global Tax Policy Leader, PwC

Caroline Ngo
Partner, McDermott Will & Emery

Kevin Nichols
Head of Tax ESG, Tax Communications, and Tax Policy, Uber

Paul Nolan
Vice President - Tax, Government Affairs & Strategic Real Estate, McCormick & Company, Inc.

Anna Paulson
Executive Vice President, Director of Research and Executive Committee Member, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Shuting Pomerleau
Research Manager, Climate Policy, Niskanen Center

Loren Ponds
Member; Practice Co-Lead, Tax Policy, Miller & Chevalier

Kathy Rodes
Vice President, Tax, MASCO Corporation

Thomas Roesser
GM, Tax Policy Counsel, Microsoft

Natalie Rorem
Vice President, Tax, The Boeing Company

Karl Russo
Principal, National Economics and Statistics Leader, PwC

Natasha Sarin
Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Daniel Smith
Director, International Tax Planning & Policy, Google

Danielle Smith
Leader, Tax Risk Management & Tax Controversy, PwC

Urvi Doshi Sood
Vice President, Taxes & General Tax Counsel, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Bob Stack
Managing Director, International Tax Group, Washington National Tax, Deloitte Tax

John Stowell
Senior Vice President - Tax, Incentives & International Financial Reporting, The Walt Disney Company

Martin Sullivan
Chief Economist, Tax Analysts

Russ Sullivan
Shareholder, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Wade Sutton
Principal, PwC

Diane Swonk
Chief Economist, KPMG

Anna Taylor
Deputy Managing Principal – Tax Policy Group, Washington National Tax, Deloitte Tax

Eelco van der Enden
CEO, Global Reporting Initiative

Mark Volpe
Senior Vice President, Tax, Regeneron

Brett Weaver
Tax ESG Leader, KPMG

Teri Wielenga
Vice President, Global Head of Tax Policy, Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Erica York
Senior Economist, Research Manager, Tax Foundation

Lisa Zarlenga
Partner and Chair of Tax Policy Group, Steptoe & Johnson