[Workshop] Joint KD/World Bank Workshop on Taxation and Growth

Day 1 (Wednesday, March 28th)

Time

Topic

Presenter

09:00-09:20

Opening Remarks

MOSF (Mr. Sang-Yul Lee, Director General for Customs & International Taxation - TBC)

KDIS (Dr. Hong Tack Chun, Dean, KDI School of Public Policy and Management – TBC)

WB (James Brumby, Director, Governance Global Practice)

09:20-09:40

Overview and Introduction

Sudarshan Gooptu, Global Lead Fiscal Policy, WB

09:40-09:50

Group Photo

09:50-10:00

Coffee Break

10:00-12:00

Tax Structures and Economic Growth: New Evidence from the Government Revenue Dataset (2016 UNU Working Paper)

Kyle McNabb, Research fellow at UNU-WIDER

Korea’s 2017 Tax Reform – Promoting Job Creation and Growth

Dr. Byung Mok Jeon, Director of Research Group for Taxation (KIPF)

TBD

Pak Amir, Indonesia

Open Discussion

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:30

Tax Incidence and recent EAP-SAS experiences

WB – TBD (Poverty GP)

Fiscal Instruments for Sustainable Development: the Case for Land Taxes

Matthias Kalkuhl

TBD

Country Authority

Taxing Wealth to support income redistribution

Dr. Youngwook Lee, Department of public finance and social policy, KDI - TBC

Open Discussion

15:30-15:45

Coffee Break

15:45-16:45

TPAF: definition, objectives, modules

Sebastian S. James, Senior Economist, WB

Discussion: connection to country needs, expectations from potential TPAF support

Day 2 (Thursday, March 29)

Time

Topic

Presenter

09:00-10:15

Korea’s experience with Tobacco Taxation: Early Outcomes

Dr. Seng_Eun Choi, Center for fiscal analysis,

KIPF

The “Sin Tax Law” in the Philippines: results achieved after 4-years of implementation

Jeremias Paul, Former Under Secretary of Finance of the Philippines, and now Coordinator, WHO Tobacco Economics Unit

Gains and Challenges: Tobacco Taxation in China

Rose Zhen, Professor of Economics and International Trade, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China

Open Discussion

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-12:30

Disruptive Technologies and Tax Administration

Raul Felix Junquera-Varela, Lead Public Sector Specialist, World Bank

ICT Challenges in Implementing Nationwide VAT

G.D. Lohani, Commissioner, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India

Increasing tax compliance with Big Data

Ms Soyoung Yun, Deputy Director of System Operation Office, National Tax Service

Open Discussion

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Issues of Taxation and Natural Resources

Lee Burns

TBC

Ketty Masu, Internal Revenue Commission, Papua New Guinea

Open Discussion

15:30-15:45

Closing Remarks

KDI (Prof. Taejong Kim, Managing Director of Development Research Center) and WB