Overview
Join a nationally recognized faculty and an audience of more than 400 members of the oil, gas and energy tax community—including senior government officials, IRS staff, corporate energy and tax counsel, and members of the energy tax bar—at the 2011 Parker C. Fielder Oil and Gas Tax Conference.
The conference takes place October 27-28, 2011, at the Omni Houston Galleria. This event is a unique collaboration between the University of Texas School of Law and the Chief Counsel’s Office of the IRS: it provides an exchange of views and perspectives between private sector and the Service.
The 2011 program opens with a sophisticated overview of shale gas plays and production, including technology, economics, business and regulatory issues, and continues with presentations, panels and discussions of current energy taxation issues including:
• Capital Cost Recovery panel moderated by Thomas Evans
• Current Issues and Trends in Acquisitions and Dispositions of Oil and Gas Properties
• Current Partnership Tax Issues in the Energy Industry
• Building Blocks of Oil and Gas Taxation: The Economics and Taxation of Production Payments; and
Like-Kind Exchanges in the Energy Sector
• International Energy Tax: Foreign Tax Credit Issues; and Transfer Pricing
• Latest Techniques and Trends to Resolve an LB&I Audit
The program also features:
• IRS Chief Counsel William J. Wilkins delivering the keynote luncheon presentation on
Current Developments in Tax Administration
• An hour on Ethics and Professional Responsibility Issues with Office of Professional Responsibility
Director Karen L. Hawkins, and Emily A. Parker
• A special awards presentation honoring R. Richard Coston of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.,
Thomas Crichton IV of Vinson & Elkins LLP, and Keith M. Jones, Industry Director of Natural Resources &
Construction-LMSB for the IRS, for their outstanding service and achievement in oil and gas taxation
If your work involves energy taxation law or finance, you won’t want to miss this exceptional educational and networking event.
