IRS and GWU Host 21st Annual International Tax Conference

IRS Announcement 2008-94

The Internal Revenue Service announces the Twenty-First Annual Institute on Current Issues in International Taxation, jointly sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service and The George Washington University Law School, to be held on December 8 and 9, 2008, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC.  Registration is currently underway for the Institute, which is intended for international tax professionals.

[According to the IRS,] [t]he program will present a unique opportunity for top IRS and Treasury officials and tax experts, an OECD representative, foreign government tax authorities, and leading private sector specialists, to address breaking issues and present key perspectives on new developments. The first day will feature a discussion by U.S. and foreign tax authorities of competent authority current trends and new frontiers.

The first day will also feature sessions on the following:

Foreign Audits and the Competent Authority Process

Transfer Pricing Update—Regulatory and Administrative Developments

The Modernization of Subpart F—Accommodating Business Structures While

Preventing Avoidance Transactions

Foreign Tax Credit Update

Cross-Border M&A

The second day will focus on the following topics:

When Does And Mean Or?: Current Issues in Treaty Interpretation

Full Disclosure: How Taxpayers and Tax Administrators Are Coping with the

New Transparency

Inbound/Outbound Developments

[Senior law professors from The George Washington University Law School will join with officials from the Treasury Department, the IRS, a representative from the OECD and representatives of the tax authorities of foreign governments to discuss significant tax compliance and treaty issues at the 21st Annual Institute on Current Issues in International Taxation.]

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