James Hausman Tax Law & Policy Workshop: David Gamage

THE JAMES HAUSMAN TAX LAW & POLICY WORKSHOP

presents 

David Gamage
University of California, Berkeley
Boalt Hall School of Law 

Tax Cannibalization and Fiscal Federalism in the United States 

Wednesday, October 19, 2016
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park 

Professor David Gamage is a scholar of tax law and policy and also health law and policy. Professor Gamage has written extensively on both U.S. state- and federal-level tax and budget policy, on tax theory, and on the intersections between taxation and health care. Professor Gamage has testified on these topics before state legislatures and has presented to a number of other government audiences. He is also regularly interviewed on these topics by radio, television, and print media.  From 2010 through 2012, Professor Gamage served as Special Counsel to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Tax Policy. In that position, Professor Gamage administered the individual income tax portfolio of the Treasury Department's Tax Legislative Counsel, thus overseeing the drafting of all individual income tax regulations, as well asadvising on new legislation and executive branch initiatives related to the individual income tax. Professor Gamage's position primarily involved the implementation of the tax provisions of the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare").  Professor Gamage’s scholarship has been published in a range of journals, including the peer-edited Tax Law Review and the University of Chicago, California, and Northwestern Law Reviews. His textbook--Taxation: Law, Planning, and Policy--is published by LexisNexis and by Carolina Academic Press. His forthcoming book on health care reform is under contract to be published by Oxford University Press.

A light lunch will be provided.

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.