10th ICTR Registration – CENTER FOR TAXPAYER RIGHTS

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
TAXPAYER RIGHTS

Taxpayer Rights, Trust & the Rule of Law

04 to 06 June 2025 | Washington DC | United States| In-person & Live-streamed

Registration Now Open for the 10th ICTR!

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The 10th International Conference on Taxpayer Rights, convened by the Center for Taxpayer Rights and hosted by the Harvard Federal Tax Clinic and Harvard Law School, will be held in-person in Washington DC and online from June 4 through 6, 2025. Events include a free workshop on The Role of Tax Clinics and Taxpayer Advocates/Ombuds in Promoting Trust and Protecting the Rule of Law on 04 June 2025, followed by two days of panel discussions from 05 to 06 June 2025, an opening reception on the evening of 04 June and a dinner on the evening of 05 June.

Please note that all times for conference sessions shown on the agenda are Eastern Daylight Time. Please check your own time zones here.

Because the time zone may make it difficult for some virtual attendees to see some of the sessions in real time, we plan to send out a link to the “raw” recording of each days’ session to registered attendees at the close of each day. That way virtual attendees can catch up on any live sessions they may have missed, before the next day’s panels.

Questions about the Conference? Contact the Center for Taxpayer Rights at Conference@taxpayer-rights.org.

Panel Topics Include:

Trust, taxpayer rights, human rights and human dignity;
Trust, taxpayer rights, and the rule of law;
Trust, taxpayer rights, and equal treatment of taxpayers: international treaties and domestic law;
Trust in the age of digital tax administration;
Losing trust: broken promises;
Regaining and maintaining trust: How to operationalize trust;
Participation, transparency, trust and the rule of law;
Current developments and update on the IBFD Observatory on the Protection of Taxpayer Rights; and
Free workshop on the role of Tax Clinics and Taxpayer Ombuds/Advocates in promoting trust and protecting the rule of law.

Conference Venue:

We are thilled to announce that each day’s sessions will be held at the Textile Museum at George Washington University. The conference reception/dinner will be held on the evening of June 5 at the the National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian Museum on the Mall. These are extremely interesting cultural institutions in their own right, and guided tours of exhibitions will be available for conference attendees.

For virtual attendees, Zoom links for each day’s conference sessions will be sent via email to registered attendees two to three days before each session.

Registration Fees:

This year we are able to offer several registration options in order to make the 10th ICTR more accessible to professionals and students from different countries.

First, registration for the June 4th Workshop on Tax Clinics and Taxpayer Advocates/Ombuds is free of charge, regardless of in-person or virtual attendance. Please note: you must register in order to be admitted to the program in-person or to receive the zoom link.

Second, we have established a multi-tier fee structure for attendees of the two-day conference from 05 to 06 June 2025:

The registration fee for in-person attendees is $325 USD total for all two days.
The registration fee for in-person attendees who are Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) full-time staff is $225 for all two days.
The registration for virtual attendees from OECD countries is $100 USD for all two days.
The registration fee for virtual attendees from non-OECD countries is $75 USD total for all two days.
The registration fee for virtual attendees who are LLM/JD/PhD students from OECD countries is $40 USD total for all two days.
The registration fee for virtual attendees who are LLM/JD/PhD students from non-OECD countries is $30 USD total for all two days.

Note: To receive the discount codes for students and LITC staff, please email Conference@taxpayer-rights.org with your request, including current course of study and the name and country of the institution at which you are studying, or your position at the LITC you work at, whichever is applicable.

Third, we are offering several scholarships to ensure the broadest participation in the conference.

We are offering a limited number of free virtual registration slots for the two -day conference to staff of low income taxpayer clinics and to former IRS and US Department of Justice staff whose employment was terminated since January 20, 2025 and who have not yet secured employment.
The law firm Kostelanetz LLP has generously offered two travel scholarships for in-person attendance for US Low Income Taxpayer Clinic staff who were hired in the last two years.

Note: Please email Conference@taxpayer-rights.org for more information about these opportunities.