A Rubric for Comprehensive Tax Reform in Japan
Pacific Leadership Fellow Public Lecture
03/07/2012, 04:00pm-05:00pm
Location: UC San Diego, IOA, Weaver Center
Open to: Public
Event email: pelane@ucsd.edu
Speaker: Professor Shigeki Morinobu
There is more to tax reform than consumption tax hikes, although one would never know it from the commentary Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's cabinet's "draft plan" has generated to date. Pacific Leadership Fellow Shigeki Morinobu provides an overview of reform objectives and options as a rubric for evaluating the proposed tax overhaul.
On January 6 this year, Prime Minister Noda's government formally adopted a draft plan for integrated reform of the social security and tax systems. Although attention has focused almost exclusively on the proposed increase in the consumption tax, the plan goes far beyond that, offering a roadmap for a total overhaul that also covers taxes on income and property. But is the Noda plan the tax reform Japan needs? In this lecture, Professor Morinobu attempts to answer that question by outlining the basic objectives and tools of tax reform and explaining how they apply to Japan today.
After earning a law degree from Kyoto University in 1973, Professor Shigeki Morinobu joined the Ministry of Finance, serving as advisor to the Minister of Finance of Japan in London. He has been a professor at Osaka University and has taught at Princeton University. He has also been president of the Policy Research Institute; visiting professor at the University of Tokyo; and visiting scholar at Columbia Law School. Professor Morinobu retired from Ministry of Finance in 2006. He is currently a professor at Chuo University's Law School, President of Japan Tax Institute, and Senior Fellow of the Tokyo Foundation, Japan.
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