International Business Taxation: Looking Back to Look Forward

This conference started with sessions covering the current state of play on Pillars 1 and 2. Current issues of implementation and likely future issues were discussed, including likely developments if Pillar 1 does not go ahead.  

This was the final CBT Summer Conference before Michael Devereux steps down as the Director of the CBT after 17 years at the helm. The final session of the day provided an opportunity for Michael and a panel of distinguished commentators to look back over the momentous developments in international business taxation over this period with a view to identifying lessons to be learned for the present and the future. 

Session 1

The current state of play of international tax reform

Chair: Michael Devereux, Director, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation

David Bradbury, Deputy Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration
Mike Williams, Director, Business and International Tax, HM Treasury

Session 2

Implementation of Pillar 2 

Chair: John Vella, Professor of Law, Oxford University

Speakers:

Michael Hashemi, HMRC
Giorgia Maffini, Special Advisor on Tax Policy and Transfer Pricing, PwC
Bezhan Salehy, Tax Policy Specialist, Macfarlanes LLP

Session 3

The future of Pillar 1, and DSTs

Chair: Richard Collier, Associate Fellow, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation 

Speakers:

Alistair Pepper, Managing Director, Washington National Tax Group, KPMG US
Janine Juggins, EVP Global Tax & Treasury, Unilever
Carine Stoffels, Director Global Tax Policy, Spotify

Session 4

International tax reform: past, present and future 

Chair: John Vella, Professor of Law, Oxford University 
Michael Devereux, Director, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation

Panel:

Jennifer Blouin, Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of 
Accounting, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Tsilly Dagan, Professor of Taxation Law, University of Oxford
Pascal Saint-Amans, Partner, Brunswick Group
Steve Shay, Paulus Endowment Senior Tax Fellow at Boston College Law School