In January 2011 in New York at a PLI seminar, Viva Hammer, Andrew Needham, Michael Novey and Matthew Stevens debate the tax outcomes of past economic crises and their impact on the one we’re still digging out of.

“Tax is the Sleeping Tiger in Dodd-Frank”; Viva Hammer led a discussion with Stephen Larson and K Scott Brown of Financial Institution and Products at the IRS Chief Counsel and John Newton of Prudential Financial in December 2010 for the DC Bar, and with Stephen Larson and Phoebe Mix of Financial Institution and Products at the IRS Chief Counsel at the American Bar Association in Boca Raton, FL in January 2011.

More information about the discussion below

2010-12 DC Bar 1256 Dodd-Frank, 2010-12 DC Bar 1256, 2011 ABA FL Marking Without Section 1256

“Corporate Taxes and Dodd-Frank’s Derivatives Rules”, AgendaWeek, December 20, 2010

Viva Hammer spoke at the Women Corporate Directors meetings in DC in October and in New York in November and surprised audiences by informing them that Dodd-Frank has serious tax consequences most people haven’t considered.  See this write up in AgendaWeek 2010-12 AgendaWeek Dodd-Frank

Click here for more information  2011-10-6 CDS webinar

“IRS Eases Slightly In Dispute Over Derivatives Tax”, Dow Jones Newswires, November 23, 2010.

Viva Hammer spoke about the taxation implications of deliberate betting on hedges, and the different responses to be expected to genuine errors and to post facto manipulations.

Click to learn more: IRS Eases Slightly In Dispute Over Derivatives Tax

“International Taxation – Financial Products Issues,” Tax Executives Institute – Baltimore- Washington Chapter’s Ninth Annual Tax Education Day, Bethesda, November 2009

Associated Builders and Contractors Institute, Orlando, October 2009

Tax Executives Institute – New York Chapter Ninth Annual Conference, New York, October 2009

American Bar Association, Chicago, September 2009

Insurance Tax Seminar, Federal Bar Association, Washington, D.C., May 2009