American Taxation Association

Call for Papers

The Internal Revenue Service will hold the 2006 IRS Research Conference in mid-June, in Washington, D.C.  IRS is still working out the exact logistical details.

We invite you to submit a proposed paper for the 2006 Conference.  General topics of interest include tax compliance, taxpayer burden, and tax administration.  For example, we welcome proposed papers about promoting voluntary compliance, evaluating workload selection models, identifying emerging compliance risks, reducing taxpayer burden, measuring the effects of outreach and taxpayer service, the implications of tax reform for tax administration, IRS leadership and workforce issues, and research methodologies.  For more information about this conference, including previous conference programs, visit http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=106270,00.html, and go to IRS Research Conferences.

Conference presenters and discussants who are not government employees will receive funding for travel and honoraria.  A conference proceedings volume will be published.

For proposed papers, please submit:

·        A title

·        An abstract not to exceed one page in length

·        Names and affiliations for all authors

·        An e-mail address and phone number for at least one contact author

Proposals for complete sessions of three papers, a session organizer, and a discussant are also invited.

Submissions are requested by January 3, 2006  Acceptances will be announced by January 17, 2006. 

Please e-mail your submission to:  research.conference@irs.gov.  Please put "proposed paper" in the subject line.

Or, you may mail your submission to:  Janet McCubbin, Statistics of Income Division, P.O. Box 2608, Washington, DC  20013-2608.

If you would like to discuss co-authoring a paper with an IRS researcher, volunteering as a discussant, or other avenues for conference participation, please contact the conference co-chairs, Janice Hedemann and Janet McCubbin, at research.conference@irs.gov.