Year: 2012

2012 Daniel M. Holland Award

For more information regarding Joel Slemrod’s receipt of the Daniel M. Holland Award at the 2012 National Tax Association Annual Meeting, pictures, and the student’s reflections on attending the NTA, please see the OTPR December 2012 newsletter.   Forty-nine OTPR-affiliated alumni, current students, and guests gathered to celebrate with Joel in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 2012.

David Albouy, Research Associate of the Office of Tax Policy Research, Wins IIPF Peggy And Richard Musgrave Prize for 2012

The International Institute of Public Finance created the “Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize” in 2003 to honor and encourage younger scholars whose work meets the high standards of scientific quality, creativity, and relevance that have been a mark of the Musgraves’ contribution to public finance. It is awarded annually, on the advice of the Chair…

M-Taxi (Michigan Tax Invitational)

June 8-9, 2012 Ross School of Business,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi On June 8-9, 2012, OTPR hosted the second Michigan Tax Invitational.  Papers were divided into these five categories: international, evasion and enforcement, state and local tax issues, rethinking received tax wisdom, and behavioral responses to taxation.  In all, 17 papers were presented and…