FYI for SF Bay Aryans. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY HORIZONS SEMINAR INTERNET TAXATION: ECONOMICS, TECHNOLOGY AND LAW CHARLES McLURE, Jr. HOOVER INSTITUTION Wednesday, May 7, 1997, 4:15 pm Manning Faculty Lounge, Stanford Law School (RSVP Susan French, SLTPC@forsythe.stanford.edu, or 723-0981) Should electronic commerce be taxed, and how? What should be taxed, income, sales, or both? Who should tax, the federal government, states, or both? Should a special excise tax be imposed on selected aspects of electronic commerce? Is Internet taxation feasible, and how? Answering these and similar questions requires agreement on the appropriate economic objectives of Internet taxation combined with an understanding of the dynamic interplay between technological and legal forces. A draft paper will be available from http://www-techlaw.stanford.edu after May 2. Charles E. McLure, Jr., a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, specializes in the economics of taxation and tax reform. He has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis, a senior economist on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, vice president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a tax policy consultant to various countries, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations. Policy and Technology Horizons Seminars (PATHS) examine technological developments that may require a fundamental re-examination of policy, law, and regulation. Sponsored by the Stanford Law and Technology Policy Center, PATHS help identify critical policy issues in time for intelligent policymaking.