Oline Twiss, Towards Reducing Auto Emissions: Comparing Fiscal and Regulatory Measures

Oline Twiss, Towards Reducing Auto Emissions: Comparing Fiscal and Regulatory Measures

Tax Expenditures Roundtables: Using the Tax System as an Instrument of Social and Economic Policy

27 November 2008

13:00 – 14:30

Four concurrent workshops

Workshop A: Room 203 NCDH

Chair: oline Twiss

Oline Twiss, “Towards reducing auto emissions: comparing fiscal and regulatory measures”

Daniel Girlando, “The Next Tax Incentive for Donations of Medicines : An Inefficient Measure with a Questionable Goal”

Guy-Philippe Bouchard, «Le rôle d'un crédit d'impôt à l'emploi dans l'essort de l'industrie éolienne de la Gaspésie»

-Discussion and Questions-

Ina Yazerskaya, “The king is naked: the real face of pension income splitting”

Palma Paciocco, "The Quebec Credit for the Treatment of Infertility: Facilitation or Equivocation?”

Ilir Orana, “The Home Mortgage Deduction”

-Discussion and Questions-

Workshop B: Seminar Room at 3674 Peel Street

Chair: Dan Illouz

Dan Illouz, “A Canadian Perspective on Barack Obama's Tax Incentive for Higher Education”

Ata Kassaian, “Purpose, Effect and Adequacy of the Principal Residence Tax Exemption: a Comparative Look”

Rob Amdursky, “Reconsidering the Principal Residence Exemption”

-Discussion and Questions-

Peter Riddell, "Tax-Free Savings Accounts: A Critical Perspective".

Aileen Smith, “The Registered Disability Savings Plan and Women in Canada”

Tom Lipton, “Working Income Tax Credit”

-Discussion and Questions-

Workshop C: Seminar Room at 3690 Peel Street

Chair: Colin Jackson

Colin Jackson, “The Purpose and Effects of the Principal Residence Exemption”

Manow Somboonwong, “Canada's Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Incentives: R&D Idles While Intergovernmental Tax Incentives Battle on”

Nicholas Dodd, “The Principal Residence Exemption and the Housing Sector are in a relationship. Status: It's Complicated”

-Discussion and Questions-

Lidiya Nychyk, “Low tax rate for small businesses"

Olivier Plessis, “Mining the Government: A Critical Examination of Tax Credits for the Mining Industry”

Isaac Langleben, “A Tentative Endorsement of the Tax-Free Savings Account: Why the TFSA will be the most effective and equitable tax-assisted savings plan available"”

Constantinos Magdalenos, “Capital Gains Taxation”

-Discussion and Questions-

Workshop D: Room 201– NCDH

Chair: Archana Gelda

Archana Gelda, “The design implications of Canada's new Registered Disability Savings Plan"

Andrew Biteen, “Reexamining education tax policy as education policy”

Kevin Custodio, "Tax Credits Yesterday, a Booming Industry Today: A Look into the Quebec Tax Credit for the Production of Video Games"

-Discussion and Questions-

Angus Rennie, “True North: Mapping the Northern Residents Tax Deduction”

Sam Singer, “Whoa, Careful with the Social Change! Limitations on the Political Activities of Charitable Organizations A Public Legal Education Workshop”

Claire Gilchrist, “?”

Jack Fattal, “Small Business Tax Deduction”

-Discussion and Questions-