Event
Designing Sustainable Tax Systems
Monday, November 25, 2019 11:00to19:00
Chancellor Day Hall
Stephen Scott Seminar Room (OCDH 16), 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA
This workshop will bring together scholars and students in law, environmental management and engineering, political science, and economics to discuss what sustainability means and implies for taxation.
Participants will discuss the broad idea of sustainability and its connection to consumer and investor behaviour; sustainability at the level of the firm, the society, the state, and the international community; the idea of triple bottom line accounting and the role of tax sustainability in CSR practices and ESG-certified investing; emerging ideas about sustainability in terms of taxpayer buy-in and administrability; and legal and institutional proposals to increase sustainability in taxation.
Agenda
| 11:00 | Welcome |
| 11:30 | Prof. Richard Janda (McGill), Tracing and diminishing our environmental footprint |
| 12:15 | Prof. (University of Leeds), The Impact of Public Perceptions on VAT Rates Policy |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:30 | Prof. & Prof. (Universit茅 libre de Bruxelles), Using life cycle analysis to internalize environmental and social costs of production via VAT |
| 15:15 | (BCL/LLB candidate, McGill) Redistributing Taxing Rights Across Borders Under a DaVAT |
| 16:00 | Break |
| 16:15 | Prof. Allison Christians (McGill) & (postdoc, McGill), Blueprint for a Sustainable International Tax System |
| 17:00 | Closing remarks and reception |
