US, OECD officials among witnesses slated to testify at U.S. Senate Finance hearing on international tax

Six witnesses are scheduled to speak at a US Senate Committee on Finance  hearing on international tax, set for July 22. The hearing is expected to address, among other issues, US legislators’  concerns about a recent spate of U.S. multinational inversions undertaken to avoid US tax.

Slated to testify are  Robert B. Stack, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury;  Pascal Saint-Amans, Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration;  Mihir A. Desai, Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance & Professor of Law, Harvard University; Peter R. Merrill, Director, National Economics and Statistics Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Washington;  Leslie Robinson, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College; and Allan Sloan, Senior Editor at Large, Fortune.

The hearing will take place at 9:45 a.m., at 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building.