This year’s presenters and topics are:

• Willard B. Taylor, of counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York: “Suppose FIRPTA was Repealed?” which examines the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act.
• Luis Eduardo Schoueri, chair of tax law at the Department of Economic, Financial and Tax Law at the Law School of Sao Paul University: “Trends and Challenges of the International Tax Law in the Dawn of the 21^st Century and the Non-Regression Principle as a New Approach Towards Tax Treaty Termination.”
• Susan C. Morse, associate professor of law at the University of California Hastings College of Law: “Startup, Ltd.: Tax Planning and Initial Incorporation.”

The symposium will also feature commentary by UF Law Professors Yariv Brauner, Omri Marian and Martin J. McMahon.

To view a live stream of the symposium, visit http://mediasite.video.ufl.edu/Mediasite/Play/a0147737bc394fe581c43ceb0e8f20af1d.

Contact:
Matt Walker, UF Law Communications
352-273-0650, mlwalker@law.ufl.edu

The symposium will begin with a presentation by economist Charles E. McLure Jr., senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In the lecture titled “The GATT – Legality of Border Adjustments for Carbon Taxes and the Cost of Emissions Permits: a Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma,” McLure will discuss the sometimes difficult topic of carbon taxes and how they are handled in developed countries like the United States and in less industrialized countries.

Next, University of Southern California Gould School of Law Professor Edward D. Kleinbard will present his lecture, “Stateless Income.” Kleinbard defines stateless income as being “income derived by a multinational group from business activities in a country other than the domicile (however defined) of the group’s ultimate parent company, but which is subject to tax only in a jurisdiction that is neither the source of the factors of production through which the income was derived, nor the domicile of the group’s parent company.”

The last presentation, “The Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base,” will be given by Bertil Wiman, professor of international tax law at Uppsala University. Wiman will discuss the international tax implications of a common corporate tax base in Europe.

For the first time, the symposium will be streamed live via the Internet and can be viewed here.