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Reforming the Tax System for the 21st Century The Mirrlees Review
Events

20 Apr 2009 Institute for Fiscal Studies
Taxing the rich: can it raise any more money?
This event will launch a briefing note which discusses how much scope there is in raising revenue from the very rich.

04 Jan 2009 Hilton, San Francisco
Session at the AEA conference 2009
Session at the American Economic Association conference 2009

17 Mar 2008 University of Warwick
Special session at the Royal Economic Society conference 2008
The Mirrlees review was the subject of a special session at the RES conference.

22 Feb 2008 Institute of Japan Business Federation
Session at the International Symposium on Tax Reform, Tokyo 2008
Session on the Mirrlees Review.

30 Aug 2007 University of Warwick
Mirrlees review: special session of the 63rd annual congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF)
The Mirrlees Review was the subject of a Special Session of the 63rd Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), held at the University of Warwick from 27th to 30th August 2007.

04 May 2007 Hilton Hotel Dublin
Foundation for Fiscal Studies annual conference, Dublin 2007
This conference featured a number of authors involved in the Review.

12 Apr 2007 Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
IFS Residential Conference - Reforming the Tax System for the 21st Century: The Mirrlees Review
The 2007 IFS Residential Conference is an opportunity to join some of the world's leading experts in tax and public economics in an effort to identify the characteristics of a good tax system for any open modern economy and to generate practical proposals for the reform of the UK tax system.

04 Sep 2006 Bloomberg LP
IFS Annual Lecture: The Future of Capital Income Taxation
The IFS annual lecture, which will be given by Professor Alan Auerbach.


Timetable
September 2005, January 2006 and June 2006 Meeting of core team
3 - 4 September 2006 Conference of core team, chapter authors, commentators and other invitees for presentation and discussion of draft chapters; launch event
September 2006 First drafts of chapters put online and sent to commentators and invited witnesses
w/c December 4th 2006, w/c February 19th 2007 Oral evidence sessions
12-14 April 2007 IFS Residential Conference: New Hall, Cambridge; presentation of near-final issues papers plus draft overview papers; commentaries presented
Late 2007 Core team review final versions of chapters; discussion of draft report with external experts including surviving Meade committee members
Spring 2008 Review chapters completed
Early 2009 Launch of report
Review contact details

The Review is funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the ESRC.

Economic and Social Resaerch Council        The Nuffield Foundation
Publication details

Oxford University Press

Dimensions of Tax Design: the Mirrlees Review, J. Mirrlees, S. Adam, T. Besley, R. Blundell, S. Bond, R. Chote, M. Gammie, P. Johnson, G. Myles and J. Poterba (eds), ISBN: 978-0-19-955375-4, Oxford University Press: April 2010

Tax by Design: the Mirrlees Review will be published in September 2010.

The Review is being published by Oxford University Press. Hard copies of Dimensions of Tax Design are available from IFS for £90 (list price is £95).

Discounted copies can be ordered by IFS members for £65 (post and packaging will be charged for orders outside the UK: £6 for European countries and £18 for countries outside Europe).

Both volumes are being posted to download free of charge on this site when they are published.