Events Detail

Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
Hudson Institute
1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005

To what extent do federal taxes serve as a barrier to small business activity? Should the tax code be used to subsidize entrepreneurial ventures? Professor Donald Bruce of the University of Tennessee will present a new paper, coauthored with Tami Gurley of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, examining the effects of marginal tax rates on small business start-up and survival. He will also discuss the small business implications of the proposals presented by the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform. The program opens with a keynote address by the Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office. Robert Carroll, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the U.S. Department of Treasury will comment.

9:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30
Keynote Address
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Council on Foreign Relations

10:00
Presenter:
Donald Bruce, University of Tennessee

Discussant:
Robert Carroll, U.S. Department of Treasury

Moderator:
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Hudson Institute

11:30
Adjournment

To RSVP or request information, please contact Hudson Institute at 202-974-6451 or e-mail Xiuyue Zhu at Xiuyue@hudson.org.

Hudson’s Center for Employment Policy is grateful to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for the support of this program.