Tax Evasion or Avoidance and Tax Havens, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

Thursday 24 June 2021 1pm to 1.30pm: Welcome of the participants and introductionto the conferenceby prof. Sébastien Guex 1.30pm to 2.40pm: Two workshops in parallel: Quantitative Approach and Tax Evasion in the long run: Sébastien Laffite (ENS Paris), The Origins of Tax Havens: Building aNew Database Sacha Dray (London School of Economics), Origins of Tax Evasion: Evidence from the Great Depression Multinational Companies, Tax Avoidance and Tax Havens (1/2): Swati Verma(Institute for studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi), Tax Haven linked Intra-firm Trade and Risk of Tax Avoidance: A Case Study of Foreign Affiliates in IndiaAngela Castillo and Julio Lopez (University of Zaragoza), Tax-induced Investments in TaxHavens by Spanish Multinationals 2.40pm to 3pm: break 3pmto 4.30pm: Two workshops in parallel Tax Competition between States and Tax Evasion: Simon Watteyne (Université libre de Bruxelles), Threat onthe Belgian Tax Haven during La Belle ÉpoqueJeanne Bomare and Herry Le Guern (Sciences Po Paris), Will We Ever Be Able to Track Offshore Wealth? How Suspect Real Estate Investments Responded to Automatic Exchange of InformationChloe Fyfe (University of Glasgow), Luxury Free Ports as Purpose Built Conduits for Tax Evasion Multinational Companies, Tax Avoidance and Tax Havens (2/2): Arjan Lejour (Tilburg University), The Role of Conduit Countries and Tax Havens in Corporate Tax AvoidanceNeil Forbes and Ben Wubs (Universities of Conventry and Rotterdam), Multinational Enterprise, Tax Avoidance and Tax HavensTijn van Beurden (independentscholar), The Oil Multinational Shell. A History of Tax Avoidance, Evasion and Political Influence, 1914-2020 4.30pm to 5pm: break 5pmto 6pm, keynotespeaker: anessa Ogle (University of California, Berkeley), From Tax Havens to Offshore Financial Centers: The Business of Selling White Collar Crime Friday 25 June 2021 1pm to 2.30pm: Two workshops in parallel: Tax Fraud and Domestic Politics(1/2) Marc Buggeln (Humboldt University of Berlin), From Disgrace to Patriotic Deed: Tax Evasion and Tax Flight in Saxonia in the First World WarFabio Ecca (Roma Tre University), War Profits and Tax Evasion. Italian Fiscal Policies in theFirst World War and after the War (1914-1924)Vivien Ballenegger (University of Lausanne), The (non-)Taxation of Rich Foreigners Domiciled in the Canton of Vaud (1916-1959) Punish and/or Educate Tax Evaders? Katia Weidenfeld (Ecole des Chartes, Paris), Emprisonner les fraudeurs de l’impôt en FranceThibaudGiddey and Mikael Wendschlag(Universities of Lausanne and Uppsala), Swedish tax evasion, capital export and tax-driven immigration to Switzerland, 1960s-1980s Korinna Schönhärl (KIT Karlsruhe), Tax Education between WWII and the 1980s:How Spain, the USA and West Germany Tried to Make Their Citizens Pay Honestly 4.30pm to 5pm: break 5pmto 6pm, keynotespeaker: Gabriel Zucman (University of California, Berkeley), The Missing Profits of Nations 6pm: end of the conference If you wish to attend the conference, please request the Zoom linksfrom: hadrien.buclin(at)unil.chPlease note that the schedules are based on the Swiss/French time zones!Each communication last 20 minutes. 30 minutes is reserved for collective discussion for eachworkshop.