| 8:00 am – 8:30am |
Registration and breakfast
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| 8:30 am – 8:35 am |
Welcome and introduction of Honourable Premier (Denise
Gower)
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8:35 am – 9:00 am |
Opening by Premier
McKeeva Bush
The current state of discussions with the UK Government.
Rumours of our demise are greatly exaggerated.
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| 9:00am – 9:30 am |
Cayman Finance Chair Anthony
Travers
Topic: Where are we? What is the same? What isn’t
the same? And what should we do about it?
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| 9:30 am – 10:00 am |
Topic: “The fallacy that low tax rates contribute
to poverty and why high tax rates do”
Richard Teather,
Senior Lecturer in Taxation in the Bournemouth University
Business School, UK.
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| 10:30 am – 11:00 am |
Topic: The Supra-nationals and the not so hidden agenda.
Dan Mitchell,
CATO Institute
|
| 11:00 am – 11:45 am |
The AIFM Directive and the Cayman Islands. Friend or
Foe?
Matthew Jones,
Associate Director of Regulatory and Tax Department, Alternative
Investment Management Association (AIMA).
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| 11:45 am – 12:30 pm |
Topic: International Tax Proposals and Their Implications
for Cayman
Gary Hufbauer,
Peterson Institute for International Economics
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| 12:30 pm – 12:45 pm |
Topic: The HIRE Act and its impact on Cayman.
Steven Cantor,
partner, Cantor & Webb
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| 1:45 pm – 2:30 pm |
Keynote Speaker
Dick Armey,
former US House Majority Leader and Chair of FreedomWorks
Tax competition. The way forward.
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| 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm |
Topic: No tax more tax avoidance: A Territorial Approach.
Leave the international disputes and data sharing behind
and move to consumed income or consumption tax model.
Stephen J. Entin,
President and Executive Director at the Institute for
Research on the Economics of Taxation
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| 3:30 pm – 4:20 pm |
Topic: The Miller Report explained.
James Miller
and David Shaw,
co-authors of The Miller Report.
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| 4:20 pm – 4:50 pm |
Topic: How the Cayman story is playing in the UK and
US media. The prejudices of the press and politicians.
What Cayman Finance has done and is doing about it.
Jack Irvine,
Media House International and Jack
Quinn, Quinn Gillespie & Associates
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| 4:50 pm – 5:00 pm |
Closing remarks and thanks to presenters
Anthony Travers,
OBE, Cayman Finance Chairman
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