Events 

Forum on Tax Shelters

The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
and Tax Analysts Invite You to a
Forum on Tax Shelters

Friday, February 11, 2005
8:45 to 10:30 a.m.

The Urban Institute
Conference Room 5A
2100 M Street, NW
Washington, DC

Transcript Now Available

In today's economic climate, how sturdy are tax shelters? During this forum noted tax experts examined:

• the conditions that give rise to shelters
• the history of tax shelters
• corporate taxation and tax shelters
• legitimate tax planning vs. tax avoidance
• the challenges to measuring tax shelters
• administrative, judicial, and congressional efforts to control them

Speakers:
DONALD KORB
Chief counsel, Internal Revenue Service.

ERIC SOLOMON
Deputy assistant secretary for regulatory affairs and acting deputy assistant secretary for tax policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury.

ERIC TODER
Senior fellow, Urban Institute, and former director of research, Internal Revenue Service.

Moderator:
JANET NOVACK
Washington bureau chief, Forbes magazine.