Taxpayer Advocacy: Addressing Systemic Tensions During Tight Budget Times

October 8, 2010

Sponsored by the Albany Law's Clinic & Justice Center's Low Income Taxpayer Clinic, the Government Law Center, and in part by Morrison & Foerster, LLP and Teal, Becker & Chiaramonte CPAs, P.C.

Tax commissioners, advocates, academics, and practitioners will explore the current tensions between revenue collection and taxpayer advocacy.

Featured speakers include:

• Jack Trachtenberg
  Deputy Commissioner and Taxpayer Rights Advocate
  N.Y. State Department of Taxation and Finance
  
• Todd Gilman
  Chief, Taxpayer Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity Division
  State of California
• Jaime Woodward
  Acting Commissioner, New York State Tax Commissioner
• Leslie Book
  Professor of Law; Director, Graduate Tax Program
  Villanova Law School
• Nina Olson (Keynote)
  National Taxpayer Advocate
• Deborah Kearns
  Assistant Clinical Professor; Director, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
  Albany Law School
• Flora Hezel
  The Rack Law Firm
  Virginia Beach, Va.

• Roberta Moseley Nero
  Of Counsel, Morrison & Foerster, LLP

For more information, contact Professor Deborah Kearns at 518-445-2328 or dkear@albanylaw.edu.