NYU Law's Graduate Tax Program and the Tax Practice of KPMG have joined together to create a lecture series on Current Issues in Taxation. Distinguished lecturers are brought to NYU Law each year to discuss a timely issue that may arise from recent or proposed legislation, regulations, cases or IRS rulings.
The series is a unique venture that brings together academics from NYU Law and distinguished tax advisors from KPMG. Representatives from each institution serve as panelists to comment on the lecture from their different professional perspectives. At a time when in some quarters there is tension between the academy and private practice, the NYU Law/KPMG lectures demonstrate that the two branches of the tax discipline can work together effectively to provide the highest level consideration of current tax issues.
Our goals are to ensure that each year's lecture is the intellectual highlight of the student's year at NYU School of Law and to provide high quality continuing legal education for alumni of the NYU Law Graduate Tax Program and KPMG partners and associates. These goals epitomize the balance between academic insight and practical experience that the GTP strives to achieve. The goal and expectations of NYU School of Law and KPMG are that the Lectures on Current Issues in Taxation will be recognized as the premier resource to which students, teachers and practitioners look for in-depth analysis and discussion of the most important issues in taxation in the United States.
Past lectures have been devoted to:
- The OECD Perspective on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting
- Tax Planning for Inbound Transactions
- Taxation of Intangibles in a Global Economy
- Accounting for Tax Uncertainties
- Alternate dispute resolution and the IRS
- Tax legislative developments
- The taxation of electronic commerce
NYU School of Law/KPMG Lecture on Current Issues in Taxation:Keynote Speakers | |
Inaugural Lecture 2000 | Richard Doernberg K. H. Gyr Professor of International Legal Studies Emory University Law School |
Second Lecture 2001 | Lewis Steinberg Partner Cravath, Swaine & Moore |
Third Lecture 2002 | Larry Langdon Commissioner Large and Mid-Size Business Division (LMSB), US Internal Revenue Service |
Fourth Lecture 2003 | Hal Hicks Associate Chief Council (International) US Internal Revenue Service |
Fifth Lecture 2004 | Barbara Angus International Tax Counsel Office of Tax Policy US Department of the Treasury |
Sixth Lecture 2006 Circular 230 – Impact on the Tax Profession |
Michael Desmond Tax Legislative Counsel US Department of the Treasury |
Seventh Lecture 2007 Accounting for Tax Uncertainties |
Edward Trott |
Eighth Lecture 2008 Economic Substance Doctrine – State of the Union and Prospects for the Future |
John Harrell, |
Ninth Lecture 2009 Global Supply Chain Management – Achieving Tax Efficiencies |
Michael DiFronzo |
Tenth Lecture 2010
US International Tax and VAT Reform: Evolution or Revolution? |
Richard Harvey Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue US Department of the Treasury, IRS |
Eleventh Lecture 2011 Increasing Transparency in the US Self Assessment Tax System |
Michael Danilack Deputy Commissioner (International) United States Competent Authority Large Business and International Division |
Twelfth Lecture 2012 Taxation of Intangibles in a Global Economy – A Moving Target |
Manal S. Corwin |
Thirteenth Lecture 2013 Tax planning for US Inbound investment: Defining the Boundaries |
Danielle Rolfes |
Fourteenth Lecture 2014 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting - as examined through the OECD's looking glass |
Robert B. Stack |
Fifteenth Lecture 2015 Is the US international system really broken? |
Mark Mazur |
Sixteenth Lecture 2016 Navigating the Global Tax Climate Change |
Robert B. Stack Deputy Assistant Secretary (International Tax Affairs) US Department of the Treasury |
Seventeenth Lecture 2017 U.S. Tax Reform--A Perfect Storm |
David M. Schizer |
Eighteenth Lecture 2018 The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act–Navigating the Sea Change of U.S. International Tax |
Thomas Barthold, |
Nineteenth Lecture 2019 Global Tax Roller Coaster – adapting to an environment riddled with complexity, uncertainty and instability |
John Samuels, |
Twentieth Lecture 2020 The Metamorphosis of International Taxation |
[Canceled due to COVID-19] |