WASHINGTON – On Monday, Feb. 3, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury Chip Harter and leading tax and trade experts will speak at “Tax & Trade Wars?” at Georgetown Law.

WHAT

While the U.S.-China trade war has driven headlines and market anxieties over the past year, another major threat to the global economy has gotten far less attention: a looming tax war. At “Tax and Trade Wars?” leading experts will discuss how the longstanding international tax regime governing multinational corporations could come apart, and the risks that various factors — including European digital service taxes (“DSTs”) and potential U.S. retaliation — pose to the broader international economic order. Chip Harter, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Tax Affairs, will keynote the afternoon event, presented by Georgetown Law’s graduate tax program, Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL), and the DC Branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA).

WHEN

Monday, Feb. 3, 2020
3:00 – 5:30 p.m.

WHO / SCHEDULE

3:00 p.m. – Welcome Remarks & Introduction

Itai Grinberg, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law

Joshua Odintz, Regional Vice-President, IFA USA

3:15 p.m. – Keynote Address

Chip Harter, Deputy Assistant Secretary (International Tax Affairs), U.S. Department of the Treasury

4:00 p.m. – “Tax and Trade 101: Application to Digital Services Taxes”

Jennifer Hillman, Professor from Practice, Georgetown Law; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; former member of the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body

4:45 p.m. – “Digital Services Taxes and the OECD Process: Where to Now?”

Itai Grinberg, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law (moderator)

Jennifer Hillman, Professor from Practice, Georgetown Law; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; former member of the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body

Amy Roberti, Director of U.S. Federal Government Relations & Global Tax Policy, Procter & Gamble

Rod Hunter, Partner, Baker McKenzie

Christian Schleithoff, Head of Financial Division, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, former Head of the International Tax Unit, German Federal Ministry of Finance

WHERE

Georgetown Law
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
120 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

RSVP

Media wishing to attend can RSVP via mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.

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