2013 Annual Meetings, Washington D.C.
World Bank Group
International Monetary Fund
2013—Washington D.C.

Annual Meetings Program of Seminars: IMF

Taxing Times


Wednesday, October 9, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium

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Moderator
Tom Keene
Editor-at-Large
Bloomberg Television and
Radio

Panelists


Christine Lagarde

Christine Lagarde
Managing Director
IMF

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Alan Auerbach

Alan Auerbach
Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law
University of California, Berkeley

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Maria Kiwanuka

Maria Kiwanuka
Minister of Finance, Uganda


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Fernando Aportela Rodriguez

Fernando Aportela Rodriguez
Minister of Finance, Mexico


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Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan

Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan
Minister of Finance, South Africa


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Tom Keene

Moderator:
Tom Keene, Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg Television and Radio

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Overview

The challenges facing current tax policy makers are daunting: helping to meet consolidation needs with least harm to both short- and longer-term growth prospects; addressing fairness concerns arising from increased inequality in many countries; fixing the international tax system; strengthening domestic resource mobilization for development in the face of likely pressures on development assistance; securing the benefits of new resource discoveries. This seminar will consider: (1) How must tax systems be best structured to meet these challenges; (2) What are the obstacles to substantive tax reform, and how can they be overcome?

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