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Anxiety-driven decisions in aggressive tax planning

Speaker:ÌýSuzanne Paquette,ÌýFaculté des sciences de l'administration, Laval
Practitioner discussant:ÌýSilvia Jacinto, Deloitte
Academic discussant:ÌýTisha King, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ

What proportion of tax returns could the Canada Revenue Agency complete?

Speaker:ÌýAntoine Genest-Grégoir, École de gestion, Sherbrooke
Academic discussant:ÌýAlan Macnaughton, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ

Did private country-by-country reporting affect international tax-motivate income shifting?

Speaker:ÌýJillian Adams, School of Accounting and Finance, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ
Academic discussant: Devan Mescall,ÌýSaskatchewan

The Mirage of Mobile Capital

Speaker:ÌýWei Cui, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC
Practitioner discussants:ÌýRichard Marcovitz, Deloitte
Academic discussant: Ken Klassen, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ

Panel:
The Tax Authority as Benefit Provider

Moderator: Ken Klassen

Panelists: Wayne Adams, Canadian Tax Foundation
Evelyn Forget, Max Rady College of Medicine, U Manitoba
Jennifer Robson, Political Management, Carleton U
additional panelists to be determined

The 2024 panel’s topic of tax authorities such as the CRA, as a benefits provider is informed byÌýtheÌýgrowing responsibility assigned toÌýtheÌýCRA for distributing benefits (e.g., COVID payments, etc.). This role extends beyond its more traditional roles as a revenue collector and information provider.

The panel will focus on the trade-offs of implementing such policies in practice, and, in particular, through the CRA.ÌýThrough the discussion, participants should better understand the pros and cons of engaging CRA to provide benefits to low-income Canadians, and for other individual benefits' distribution (e.g., CAI, now CCR, payments).Ìý

A break will occur around 3:30.