Carter Commission After 50 Years

Tomorrow is the first day of the Dalhousie Law conference, The Carter Commission 50 Years Later: A time for reflection and reform."   On the schedule for tomorrow:

Neil Brooks - The Carter Report: Brilliant, Imaginative and One of a Kind

Ajay Mehrotra - The VAT Laggards: A Comparative History of US and Canadian Resistance to the Value-Added Tax

Miranda Stewart - Tax Reform and Legitimacy in the Global Era

Faye Woodman - Should the Tax Burden on Babyboomers Be Reduced Because They are Getting Older?: The Age Tax Credit, the Pension Income Credit, and Income Splitting of Pension Income

Claire Young - Beyond Conjugality: Time for the Tax System to Take that Concept Seriously

Allison Christians - Drawing the Boundaries of Tax Justice

Peter Dietsch - Fiscal Obligations to Redistribute in an International Setting

Thaddeus Hwong - A Comparison of Trends in Tax Levels and Tax Mixes in Canada and Other OECD Countries Before and After Carter

Chris Sprysak - Taxing Me or We: Yet Another Look at the Carter Commission’s Recommendation for Joint Returns

Tamara Larre - Dependency Under Canada’s Income Tax System

Kirk Collins - Capital Markets, Interest Imputation, and the Carter Report’s Proposed System of Full Integration of the Corporate-Shareholder Income Taxes

Martha O’Brien - Corporate Group Taxation: Here and Now, There and Then

And that's just the first day.  You can access the full schedule at the link.