Masterclasses, Workshops and Seminars.

Our TARC Seminar Series has continued since the move to online presentation due to restrictions imposed by COVID-19.  

Please note varying times (GMT/BST) due to differing time zones of speakers.  Where not currently shown, full details will be provided once finalised.

To attend any of our seminars, please register your interest here.

Date Time Speaker  Venue  Title/Slides
23rd May 2022  15:00  Elena Patel - University of Utah Online  Medicaid-ing Uninsurance? Reducing the Duration of Uninsurance Spells
18th May 2022  14.00 Lucie Gadenne - University of Warwick
Online  Tbc
13th April 2022  14.00  Alex Rees-Jones - Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania  Online  Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Support for Safety-Net Expansion
30th March 2022 14.00  João Pereira dos Santos - Nova School of Business and Economics Online  Not so Sweet: The Impact of the Portuguese Soda Tax on Producers
16th March 2022 14.00  Anne Brockmeyer - Institute for Fiscal Studies, University College London, World Bank Online  Tax Audits under Weak Fiscal Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Senegal
2nd March 2022 14.00  Irem Guceri - Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation Online  Investing in Tax Avoidance
16th February 2022 14.00 Daniel Reck - London School of Economics (LSE) Online  Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence 
2nd February 2022 14.00 Dena Lomonosov - University of Michigan Online The Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Residential Housing Markets: Evidence from New Jersey
19th January 2022 14.00

Adhikari Bibek - Illinois State University

Online Corporate Taxpayer Responses to Size-Based Enforcement and Disclosure Thresholds
15th December 2021 14.00

Nadine Riedel - University of Münster

Online Tax Enforcement Spillovers - Evidence from South Africa

8th December 2021

14.00

Zareh Asatryan - ZEW Mannheim

Recording here

Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis
24th November 2021 14.00

Jawad Shah - Oxford University Centre of Business Taxation

Recording here Detection Without Deterrence Long-Run Effects of Tax Audit on Firm Behavior
10th November 2021 14.00

Eva Eberhartinger - Vienna University of Economics and Business

Online

Are Risk-Based Tax Audit Strategies Rewarded? An Analysis of Corporate Tax Avoidance
3rd November 2021 14.00

Gabriel Tourek - University of Pittsburgh

Online

Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC
20th October 2021 15:00

Katarzyna Bilicka - Utah State University

Online Measuring Firm Activity From Outer Space
6th October 2021 14.00

Panayiotis Nicolaides - EU Tax Observatory

Recording here

Taxpayer Responses to Third Party Reporting:‌Evidence from Greece's Electronic Consumption Tax Discount.
2020-2021         

5th May 2021

14.00

Jonathan Weigel - LSE. UK

Online

Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the D.R. Congo

14th April 2021

14:00

Joshua Blank - University of California, USA

Online

Progressive Tax Procedure

10th March 2021

14.00

Annette Alstadsater - Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) Norway

Online

Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares: Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data from Norway

3rd March 2021

12.00

Christian Traxler - Hertie School, Germany

Online

Salience, Incentives, and Timely Compliance: Evidence from Speeding Tickets

24th February 2021

14.00

Michael Overesch - University of Cologne, Germany

Online

The relation between corporate social responsibility and profit shifting of multinational enterprises

3rd February 2021

14.00

Dominika Langenmayr - Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany

Online

Escaping the Exchange of Information: Tax Evasion via Citizenship-by-Investment

20th January 2021

14.00

David Agrawal - University of Kentucky, USA

Online

Wealth Tax and Mobility

18th November 2020

14.00

Andy Summers - LSE, UK

Online

Administering a Wealth Tax in the UK

11 November 2020

14:00

İrem Güçeri - Saïd Business School University of Oxford, UK

Online

Investment Responses to Tax Policy under Uncertainty

4th November 2020

16.00

Wei Cui - University of British Columbia Allard School of Law, Canada

online

Audits, Negotiated Payments, and Optimal Tax Administration:
Evidence from China

29 July 2020

 14:00

Svetlana Ledyaeva - Aalto University, Finland

Online 

Trade diversion effects of China's VAT export rebates

15th July 2020

14:00

Leslie Book and T.Keith Fogg - Villanova University, USA

Online

Administrative burdens, sludge and individual taxpayer rights

1st July 2020

14:00 Brian Erard - B.Erard & Associates, Washington USA Online You've Got Mail: The Specific Deterrence Implications of Increased Reliance on Correspondence Audits

17th June 2020

14:00 Elena Patel, Nathan Seegert - The University of Utah, Laura Konda - US Dept of the Treasury Online General Business Credits; Estimating the Impact of a Regime Change in Mandatory Tax Disclosure

3rd June 2020

14.00 Thiess Büttner - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Online Cum-ex Tax Fraud
20th May 2020  14:00  Arun Advani - Warwick University Zoom  Capital Gains and UK Inequality 
6th May 2020  14:00  Tommaso Reggiani - Cardiff University  Zoom Media Bias and Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence

Further information

For further information, please contact the TARC Centre Administrator at tarc@exeter.ac.uk 

In light of the restrictions currently imposed by Covid-19, we are developing a series of free mini-workshops.

Title Date Abstract deadline
COVID-19 and Developing Countries 19th June 2020 5th June 2020
Detecting Anomalies (and fraud) in Networks 24th June 2020 10th June 2020
Improving the Resolution of Tax Disputes 26th August 2020 12th August 2020
Tax Audits Evaluation 9th December 2020 n/a

 

Brainstorming workshop with Remnin University of China: 15-17 October 2019

TARC have continued collaborating (and building relationship) with Renmin University following the IQTE project. The Centre hosted a 3 day workshop with Renmin University delegates with the purpose of identifying research topics the two institutions can co-operate on more closely.

Modelling tax policy and compliance workshop: 14-15 March 2019

The aim of this collaboration with the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand was to share recent research from Australia New Zealand, the UK, and various European countries, on developments in economic modelling of tax policy and tax compliance.

The two-day event included presentations from:

  • Nazila Alinaghi and Norman Gemmell, Victoria University of Wellington
  • Chris Ball, Victoria University of Wellington
  • Robin Jessen, RWI Essen
  • Zhiyang Jia, Statistics Norway
  • Alari Paulus, ISER, University of Essex
  • Davud Rostam-Afschar, Universitaet Hohenheim

The Workshop was organised by organised by TARC Director Christos Kotsogiannis and Professor Norman Gemmell, Chair in Public Finance at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The Workshop was supported by funding from the UK ESRC, and the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Wellington..

Past events:

TARC has delivered a series of Masterclasses led by Centre members and International Fellows. Master classes were designed to meet the needs of both tax authority employees and researchers in tax administration. Subjects for master classes included implications of behavioural economics for tax policy, evaluation of tax policy, and tax gap estimation.

Date Title Venue Notes
1 & 2 November 2017 Qualitative Masterclass Broadway House, London Lotta Björklund Larsen and Ulf Johannesson delivered the Masterclass.
21 & 22 June 2017 VAT Masterclass Broadway House, London Katherine Baer delivered the Masterclass.
27 March 2017 Accounting for Tax Masterclass Broadway House, London Kevin Holland and Alan Kirkpatrick delivered the Masterclass
12 & 13 September 2016 Experimental Masterclass Broadway House, London Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
28 & 29 June 2016 TARC DS Masterclass Manchester Conference Centre Tony Bellotti delivered the Data Science Masterclass.
18 January 2016 TARC Masterclass 2016 Broadway House, London Thomas Rutherford delivered the Masterclass.
11 December 2015 Tax Avoidance Workshop Broadway House, London TARC ran a workshop focusing on the subject of tax avoidance, organised by Nigar Hashimzade and Yuliya Epifantseva.
9 & 10 October 2014 TARC Masterclass 2014 Friends House, London Erich Kirchler delivered the Masterclass.
21-22 November 2013 TARC Masterclass 2013 CILIP, London Brian Erard delivered the Masterclass.