Public Accounts Committee: impact of globalisation on taxation
Thursday 30
th
October 2014
Livery Hall, Guildhall, City of London
09.30
10.30
10.40
11.10
Coffee and registration
Welcome from
Mark Boleat,
Chairman of the Policy and Resources Committee,
Corporation of London and
Margaret Hodge,
PAC Chair
Keynote speech:
Pascal Saint-Amans/Grace
Perez-Narravo, OECD Centre for Tax
Policy and Administration: The G20/OECD Agenda for Global Tax Reform
Panel discussion: To what extent do we need coordinated international action on
taxation and has the G20 got it right? (chaired by
Tom Bergin,
financial journalist,
Reuters)
Margaret Hodge, Michael Izza,
Chief Executive, Institute of Chartered Accountants
in England and Wales,
Will Morris,
Chair of CBI Tax Committee,
Jakob Schaad,
Deputy CEO and head of international policy, Swiss Bankers’ Association,
Geoff
Cook,
CEO, Jersey Finance and
Helen Miller,
Institute for Fiscal Studies
12.00
12.30
Questions and contributions from the floor
Breakout sessions – chaired by a Member of the Public Accounts Committee:
Taxing intellectual property (Speakers:
Jonathan Bridges,
KPMG)
Effectiveness of domestic approaches to anti-tax avoidance (Speakers:
Sara
Luder,
Slaughter and May;
Richard Murphy,
Tax Research UK;
Jonathan
Isaby,
Taxpayers’ Alliance)
Tax and development (Speakers:
Irene Ovonji-Odida,
ActionAid Chair and
member of Mbeki Panel on Illicit Financial Flows; Zitto Kabwe, Chair of PAC,
Tanzania; Vernon Soare, ICAEW)
13.15
14.00
14.30
15.00
Lunch in the
Guildhall Crypt
(
sponsored by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in
England and Wales
)
Keynote speech:
Justin King
Questions and contributions from the floor
Breakout sessions – chaired by a Member of the Public Accounts Committee:
Tax: a moral issue? (Speakers:
Professor John Kay; Professor Prem Sikka)
Taxing the digital economy (Speakers:
Dr John Vella,
University of Oxford;
Andy Hewitt, ASOS; Paul Morton, Reed Elsevier)
Tax and transparency (Speakers: Colin Powell, Vice-Chair, Global Forum’s
Working Group on Automatic Exchange of Information;
Alan McLean,
Dutch
Royal Shell; Ross Lyons, Rio Tinto)
15.45
Closing remarks