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Corporate Tax Reform: Fred P. Thompson Lecture Series

Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Lillis Business Complex, 282
955 E 13th Ave, Eugene, OR

This fall’s Fred P. Thompson Lecture, hosted by the UO Department of Finance, will delve into the issues and implications of corporate tax reform.

According to the EU, Apple owes billions in taxes. Meanwhile, the United States has the highest general top marginal corporate tax rate in the developed world, but the corporate share of federal tax revenue has dropped by two-thirds in the past 60 years. This has all lead to surprising agreement across party lines: corporate tax reform is coming. Policy institutes and lobbyists are scrutinizing proposals, tax experts are expanding their research, and congressional hearings on the topic are commonplace.


Speakers/Panelists

Dave Anderton, Partner, EY

Dave Anderton is a tax partner in EY’s Portland office and has 27 years of experience in tax consulting. Currently, he is responsible for coordinating tax services for Portland area clients. He has served Portland area companies since 1988, working for Big 4 firms including EY, KPMG, and Andersen. In addition, between stints in public accounting, he served as tax director for adidas America. Anderton has a wide variety of experience, with a focus on multinational corporations and partnerships. He has served such clients as Iberdrola, Columbia Sportswear, FEI, Mentor Graphics, Dr. Martens, Vestas, Blount, Precision Castparts, Wieden+Kennedy, and Integra Telecom companies. He is in the federal tax group and provides advisory, compliance, and provision services to his clients. Anderton graduated from University of Oregon and is currently president of Willamette Valley Track and Field, an Oregon not-for-profit organization. He is a CPA and a member of the Oregon Society of CPAs.

 


Linda Krull, Alumni Investment Management Associate Professor of Accounting, Lundquist College of Business

Linda Krull is the Alumni Investment Management Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business. Krull is also the accounting department PhD program coordinator and a special sworn employee with the Bureau of Economic Analysis. She studies how income taxes and accounting for income taxes affect such corporate decisions as repatriation, investment, and capital structure, with a focus on investor level taxes and U.S. taxes on multinational corporations. Her research on the taxation of U.S. multinational corporations has been awarded the American Taxation Association/PricewaterhouseCoopers Outstanding Dissertation Award, the American Taxation Association Outstanding Manuscript Award, and the Lundquist College’s Goulet Research Excellence Award.

 


Ryan Wilson, Associate Professor of Accounting, Lundquist College of Business

Ryan Wilson is an associate professor of accounting at the Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon. Wilson previously served on the faculty of the University of Iowa. He earned his PhD from the University of Washington. Prior to his academic career he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Professor Wilson’s research focuses on tax accounting and the relation between accounting data and firm valuation. His work has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Journal of the American Taxation Association. He currently serves on the editorial board of The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, and the International Journal of Accounting. Wilson teaches intermediate accounting and financial statement analysis at the University of Oregon. He has previously taught courses in advanced tax topics, empirical research in tax accounting, and financial accounting and reporting.

 

Moderator

John Chalmers, Abbott Keller Professor of Finance, University of Oregon

Chalmers is the academic director of the Cameron Center for Finance and Securities Analysis at the University of Oregon. He is a highly regarded researcher and expert on mutual funds, pensions, retirement financial choices, and transactional costs. He was awarded the prestigious TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award in 2014 and his research on mutual funds in 2009 was hailed by Morningstar as the "research of the decade."