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SUMMARY:Why Is The Tax Law So White? - Professor Alice Abreu\, Temple Univ
 ersity
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CONTACT:Guy Mulley
DESCRIPTION:In this talk Professor Alice Abreu will link a series of obser
 vations: 1) The relative lack of diversity in the US tax bar\; 2) The trad
 itional view of the tax law as involving one value – raising revenue –
  rather than multiple and heterogeneous values\, exacerbated by the concep
 t of tax expenditures\, which places non-revenue values outside the purvie
 w of the tax law\; 3) The implicit bias that is baked into the tax law thr
 ough its privileging of capital and its owners\, among other things\, prod
 ucing an Internal Revenue Code that is racially blind but not racially neu
 tral\; and 4) How many of the Biden Administration’s legislative proposa
 ls\, for both individual and corporate taxpayers\, might begin to disrupt 
 that\, perhaps even leading to the long-term provision of a universal basi
 c income.\n\nProfessor Alice Abreu is Professor of Law\, and the Director 
 of the Center for Tax Law and Public Policy\, at Temple University in Phil
 adelphia. A graduate of Cornell University and Cornell Law School\, Profes
 sor Abreu has lectured at Harvard and at Yale Law Schools. Professor Abreu
  began her career in practice and was actively involved with the tax secti
 on of the American Bar Association. Professor Abreu's areas of interest in
 clude income tax (both local and international) and the formulation of tax
  policy. Professor Abreu also has the unusual distinction of having both l
 ectured in and run marathons in Rome. \nAs usual\, no prior knowledge of o
 r experience in taxation is necessary in order to attend this meeting of t
 he Cambridge Tax Discussion Group.\n
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