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Low Taxes and Good Governance Necessities in an Uncertain World?

Edition March 11, 2016

MERCURE HOTEL BERLIN TEMPELHOF AIRPORT Hermannstraße 214-216, D-12049 Berlin

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World Conference Berlin, March 17th until 20th, 2016 /20

Contents

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Preface 3

Programme 4

Speakers at a Glance 11

Conference Contact Persons 18

Organizers/Cooperation Partners/Sponsors 20


Preface

We would like to extend a warm welcome to all speakers and participants to our World Taxpayers and European Resource Bank Conference in Berlin, March 17th -19th, 2016.

Players and globally recognised experts with a broad spectrum from science, industry and politics are going to meet under the slogan “Low Taxes and Good Governance – A Necessity in an Insecure World?” to discuss the positive influence of tax systems on economic growth, the effects of bureaucracy and good governance as well as questions on the influence of political interests on tax systems.

More than 250 participants from all over the world registered for this conference.

The conference is organised by the Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE), World Taxpayers Associations (WTA) and the German Taxpayers Association (BdSt).

Cooperation partners are the European Economic Senate, European Resource Bank, SME EUROPE of the EPP as well as SME Global. Together with the other organisations we have members in over 80 countries around the globe. More than half of these countries will be present at this conference.

With this World Conference we want to make an active contribution. Our slogan “Low Taxes and Good Governance - A Necessity in an Insecure World?” delivers a clear message: Every crisis offers a chance to tackle reforms and make the best of a situation. We just need to use the resultant chance. Through dialogue with global experts we want to share experience and offer a chance to the participating guests to have exchange on the highest level, in order to introduce practical solutions into the political discussion based on these dialogues.

We thank all speakers, the conference cooperation partners and sponsors of the World Conference Berlin 2016 who helped us to make this conference possible.

We wish the conference every success; good discussions and exchange of opinions and look forward to an interesting two day programme.

Yours faithfully,

Staffan Wennberg World Taxpayers Associations President

Dipl.-Kfm. Rolf von Hohenhau Taxpayers Association of Europe President

Reiner Holznagel, M.A. Bund der Steuerzahler Deutschland e.V. President

Dr Barbara Kolm European Resource Bank Chairman Austrian Economics Center (AEC)


Programme

Registration

Venue: MERCURE HOTEL BERLIN TEMPELHOF AIRPORT Hermannstraße 214-216, D-12049 Berlin

Thursday: March 17th, 2016: 08:00 – 18:00 (Hotel)

Friday: March 18th, 2016: 08:00 – 17:30 (Hotel)

Saturday: March 19th, 2016: 08:00 – 15:00 (Hotel)

Gala Dinner: 18:00 – 20:00 (Hotel)

Thursday 17th, 2016 Conference Opening Reception

Venue: DESIGN OFFICES BERLIN AM ZIRKUS Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 3 D-10117 Berlin

18:30 Shuttle Pickup

19:00 -22:00 Opening Reception by German Taxpayers Association (BdSt)

19:00 - 22:00

Opening and Welcome: Staffan WENNBERG President World Taxpayers Associations (WTA)

Dipl.-Kfm. Rolf von HOHENHAU President Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE)

Reiner HOLZNAGEL, M.A. President German Taxpayers Association (BdSt)

Dr Barbara KOLM Chairman Austrian Economics Center (AEC), European Resource Bank

Johannes Singhammer, MP Vice President German Parliament



Friday March 18th, 2016 - Morning Session Venue: MERCURE HOTEL BERLIN TEMPELHOF AIRPORT

Hermannstraße 214-216, D-12049 Berlin Room: Kindlsaal 1 and 2

09:00 Opening of the World Taxpayers’ Conference

09:00 – 09:10

Opening Remarks Staffan WENNBERG Chairman and President World Taxpayers Associations (WTA)

Dipl.-Kfm. Rolf von HOHENHAU, President Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE)

09:10– 09:20 Introductory Speech Prof Pierre GARELLO President of the Institute for Economic Studies - Europe (IES)

09:20– 09:50

Keynote Prof Dr Helge BRAUN Minister of State Germany, Federal Government Coordinator for Bureaucracy Reduction and Better Regulation and Federal Government Coordinator for Relations between the Federation and the Federal States

09:50 – 11:10 Taxation, Growth and Prosperity

09:50 – 11:10

Panel 1: “How a Future Tax System can Boost the Economy” Taxation and Economic Growth Prof Richard VEDDER Ohio State University

Limits of Taxation – Limits of Governmental Responsibility Prof Neville NORMAN Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne

Tax Competition versus Tax Harmonization Luděk NIEDERMAYER, MEP Member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament

Liechtenstein Tax Reform Model Prof Dr Martin WENZ Chair for Tax Management and Laws of Liechtenstein and International Taxation, University of Liechtenstein

Chair: Reiner HOLZNAGEL, M.A. President German Taxpayers Assocation (BdSt)

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee Break


Friday March 18th, 2016 - Morning Session Cont.

11:40 – 13:00 Red Tape. Private-Public Partnerships – A Road Ahead?

11:40 – 12:00

Keynote Norbert BARTHLE, MP Parlamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure of Germany

12:00 – 13:00

Panel 2: Public Private Partnership (PPP) - Future Alternatives to Financing Infrastructure and Welfare

Klaus-Heiner LEHNE Member of European Court of Auditors ECA

Dr Kristian NIEMIETZ Head of Health and Welfare of the Institute of Economic Affairs (iea)

Dr Paul RÜBIG, MEP Member of Committee on Budgets of European Parliament, President SME Global, President SME Europe hon.

Laurent PICHERAL CEO Hotel Services Central and Eastern Europe ACCOR HOTELS S.A.

Chair: Dipl.-Kfm. Rolf von HOHENHAU President Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

Friday March 18th, 2016 - Afternoon Session

13:30 – 14:00 Lunch Speech

Mark LITTLEWOOD Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)

Chair: Staffan WENNBERG Chairman and President World Taxpayers Associations (WTA)

14:00 – 15:40 Good Governance and Transparency - Basis for Democracy and Prosperity

14:00 – 14:20

Keynote Speech Dipl.-Ing. Markus FERBER, MEP Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament

14:20 – 15:40

Panel 3: Good Governance in Practice - Tranparency, Bureaucracy and Deregulation - A Reality Check

Dr Peter GRÜNENFELDER State Chancellor Canton of Aargau, Switzerland and designated Director of the Think Tank Avenir Suisse

Matthew TYRMAND Open The Books / American Transparency, Deputy Director

Prof Dr Dr h.c. Werner WEIDENFELD Director of the Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP) of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Chair: Dr Ingo FRIEDRICH President European Economic Senate (EWS) Vice President European Parliament ret.

15:40 – 15:50 Coffee Break


Friday March 18th, 2016 - Afternoon Session Cont.

15:50 – 17:20 Economic and Fiscal Policy

15:50 – 16:10 Opening Remarks Elmar BROK, MEP Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament

16:10 – 17:20

Panel 4: Euro and Governmental Interest Policy - Blessing or Curse? How to Develop a Sustainable Common European Economic and Fiscal Policy?

Georg FAHRENSCHON

President German Savings Banks Association, DSGV

Prof Juraj SIPKO

Institute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Prince Michael of LIECHTENSTEIN Chairman of the Board Geopolitical Information Service AG

John FUND

The Wall Street Journal

Chair: Dipl.-Kfm Michael JAEGER Secretary General Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE), Vicepresident Bavarian Taxpayers Association, CEO Jaeger EuroConsult

17:20 – 17:30 Break

17:30 – 18:30 Dragon’s Den Competition European Think Tank Competition of ERB sponsored by Global Philanthropic Trust


Friday March 18th, 2016 - Evening Event

Venue: PFEFFERBERG THEATRE Schönhauser Allee 176, D-10119 Berlin 18:30 – 19:30 Shuttle for Transfer to Dinner Location

19:30 – 22:00 Varieté Dinner and Show

22:30 – 23:00 Shuttle Pickup for Transfer to Hotel

23:00 Late Night Snack at the Hotel


Saturday March 19th, 2016 - Morning Session


09:00 Coffee Reception

09:00 – 09:45

Subsidies - Effective promotion of business or waste of taxpayers’ money? What is required by law to combat fraud and waste more effectively. Short presentation of a new, comprehensive study

Prof Dr Marco MANSDÖRFER Chair of Criminal Law, Law Relating to Economic Offences and Criminal Procedure Law at the University of Saarland

Chair: Pete SEPP President National Taxpayers Unions (NTU)

09:45 – 13:15 Promote Your Interests

09:45 – 10:45

Workshop 1: Kindlsaal 1

From the Trenches - Success Stories, Campaigning and Fundraising

Grover NORQUIST President Americans for Tax Reform

Troy LANIGAN President and CEO of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Kerry HALFERTY HARDY

Member of Board of Directors of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), Non-Profit Fundraiser

Workshop 2: Room Kindlsaal 2

Media Coaching Crisis PR - well prepared in the Media and Public Speaking

Dr Ralf SCHNEIDER CEO rs Medienberatung, Member of Board of TAE


11:00 – 12:00


Threats Rising: Governments Worldwide Plans to Tax More

Dave WILLIAMS, President, Taxpayer Protection Alliance (USA)

Tim ANDREWS, Executive Director, TaxPayers' Alliance (Australia)

Drew JOHNSON, columnist, editorial writer, The Washington Times (USA)

Lorenzo MONTANARI, Executive Director of the Property Rights Alliance

Moderator: Sarah ELLIOTT, Secretary General, WTA


Styling and Appearance Does your appearance work for You? The nonverbal communication of clothes and style

Jasmin LEHETA Personal Style and Shopping Coach

12:00 – 12:15 Break

12:15 – 13:15


A Protection of Intellectual Property rights – Reality and Needs

Andrew KOVALCIN Senior Director of Advocacy and External Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC)

Philip STEVENS Director Geneva Network

Prof Edward STRINGHAM Fayetteville State University (USA)

Dr Barbara KOLM Chairman Austrian Economics Center


Social Media Savviness – How to Harness New Digital Innovations for Success

Jag SINGH Serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and digital innovator

Jonathan ISABY Chief Executive of The TaxPayers' Alliance

13:15 - 15:00 Lunchbreak


Saturday March 19th, 2016 - Afternoon Session


13:30 Lunch Speech

13:30 – 14:00

Currency Transformation – The Collapse of the Soviet Empire and the View Ahead for Cross Country Currencies

Richard RAHN Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute and Chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth

Chair: Troy LANIGAN President and CEO of Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Vice Chairman of World Taxpayers Associations

14.00 – 15.00 Break

15:00 – 17:30 Sightseeing Tour / Leasure Time or ERB Workshop

17:30 – 19:30 Evening Break

19:30 – 23:00 Gala Dinner

Room: Kindlsaal 1 and 2

Opening Remarks Staffan WENNBERG President World Taxpayers Assocations (WTA)

Gala Dinner Speaker James DELINGPOLE Journalist, Author and Broadcaster Winner of the Bastiat Prize for Journalism on the Topic: “Global Warming Myth, Taxes and other political Attacks on Liberty, Economic Growth and Wealth”

Comedy Programme “5 Step Guide to Being German” Comedian Paco ERHARD

ERB Dragon’s Den winner announcement Dr Barbara KOLM

Chair Troy LANIGAN President and CEO of Canadian Taxpayers Federation Vice Chairman of World Taxpayers Associations

23:00 Open End

Sunday March 20th, 2016

Until 11:00 Breakfast and Checkout


Individual Parallel Session European Resource Bank by invitation only

Saturday March 19th, 2016 - Afternoon Session

Venue: MERCURE HOTEL BERLIN TEMPELHOF AIRPORT Hermannstraße 214-216, D-12049 Berlin Room Britz

14:00 – 16:15 ERB Workshops

14:00 – 15:00 ERB Workshop 1: Immigration

15:00 – 16:00 ERB Workshop 2: Full Atlas workshop on media


16:15 – 17:30 Libertarian Marketplace

16:15 – 17:30 Libertarian marketplace ( interactive afternoon)

17:30 – 19:30 Evening Break

19:30 – 23:00 Gala Dinner

Room: Kindlsaal 1 and 2

Opening Remarks Staffan WENNBERG President World Taxpayers Assocations (WTA)

Gala Dinner Speaker James DELINGPOLE Journalist, Author and Broadcaster Winner of the Bastiat Prize for Journalism on the Topic: “Global Warming Myth, Taxes and other political Attacks on Liberty, Economic Growth and Wealth”

Comedy Programme “5 Step Guide to Being German”

Comedian Paco ERHARD

ERB Dragon’s Den winner announcement Dr Barbara KOLM

Chair Troy LANIGAN President and CEO of Canadian Taxpayers Federation Vice Chairman of World Taxpayers Associations

23:00 Open End


Speakers at a Glance Speakers listed in alphabetic Order

Tim ANDREWS Executive Director TaxPayers' Alliance (Australia)

Norbert BARTHLE, MP

Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure of Germany

Prof Dr Helge BRAUN Minister of State Germany, Federal Government Coordinator for Bureaucracy Reduction and Better Regulation and Federal Government Coordinator for Relations between the Federation and the Federal States

Elmar BROK, MEP

Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament

James DELINGPOLE

Journalist, Author and Broadcaster, Winner of the Bastiat Prize for Journalism on the Topic: “Global Warming Myth, Taxes and other political Attacks on Liberty, Economic Growth and Wealth”

Paco ERHARD Comedian


Sarah ELLIOTT

Secretary General, WTA

Georg FAHRENSCHON

President German Savings Banks Association (DSGV)

Dipl.-Ing. Markus FERBER, MEP Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament

Dr Ingo FRIEDRICH President European Economic Senate (EWS), Vice President European Parliament ret.

John FUND

The Wall Street Journal

Prof Pierre GARELLO President of the Institute for Economic Studies - Europe (IES)

Dr Peter GRÜNENFELDER

State Chancellor Canton of Aargau, Switzerland and designated Director of the Think Tank Avenir Suisse


Kerry Halferty HARDY

Member of Board of Directors of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), Non-Profit Fundraiser

Reiner HOLZNAGEL, M.A. President German Taxpayers Association (BdSt)

Jonathan ISABY Chief Executive of The TaxPayers' Alliance

Dipl.-Kfm. Michael JÄGER

Secretary General Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE), Vice President Bavarian Taxpayers Association, CEO Jaeger EuroConsult

Drew JOHNSON

columnist, editorial writer, The Washington Times (USA)

Dr Barbara KOLM

Chairman Austrian Economics Center (AEC), European Resource Bank

Andrew KOVALCIN Senior Director of Advocacy and External Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC)


Troy LANIGAN

President and CEO of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Jasmin LEHETA Personal Style and Shopping Coach

Klaus-Heiner LEHNE Member of European Court of Auditors ECA

Mark LITTLEWOOD Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)

Prof Dr Marco MANSDÖRFER Chair of Criminal Law, Law Relating to Economic Offences and Criminal Procedure Law at the University of Saarland

Lorenzo MONTANARI Director of International Programs & Affairs - Americans for Tax Reform (USA), Executive Director of the Property Rights Alliance

Luděk NIEDERMAYER, MEP

Member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament


Dr Kristian NIEMIETZ Head of Health and Welfare of the Institute of Economic Affairs (iea)

Prof Neville NORMAN,

Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne

Grover NORQUIST

Americans for Tax Reform

Prince Michael of LIECHTENSTEIN

Chairman of the Board Geopolitical Information Service AG

Laurent PICHERAL CEO Hotel Services Central and Eastern Europe ACCOR HOTELS S.A.

Richard RAHN

Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute and Chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth

Dr Paul RÜBIG, MEP Member of Committee on Budgets of the European Parliament, President SME Global, President SME Europe hon.


Dr Ralf SCHNEIDER

CEO rs Medienberatung, Member of Board of TAE, Vice President European Journalist Association

Pete SEPP President National Taxpayers Unions (NTU)

Jag SINGH Serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and digital innovator

Johannes SINGHAMMER, MP Vice President German Parliament

Prof Juraj SIPKO

Institute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Philip STEVENS Director Geneva Network

Prof Edward STRINGHAM Fayetteville State University (USA)


Matthew TYRMAND

Open The Books / American Transparency, Deputy Director

Prof Richard VEDDER

Ohio State University

Rolf von HOHENHAU President Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE), President Bavarian Taxpayers Association, Chairman of EES Supervisory Board

Staffan WENNBERG President World Taxpayers Associations (WTA)

Prof Dr Dr h.c. Werner WEIDENFELD Director of the Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP) of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Prof Dr Martin WENZ Chair for Tax Management and Laws of Liechtenstein and International Taxation, University of Liechtenstein

Dave Williams President, Taxpayer Protection Alliance (USA)


Conference Contact Persons

General Conference Organizational Affairs

Dipl.-Kfm. Michael JÄGER

Secretary General Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE), Vicepresident Bavarian Taxpayers Association, CEO European Economic Senate (EES), CEO Jaeger EuroConsult

Andreas FASCHING Bavarian Taxpayers Association, Public Relations Office

René NOUR EL DIN Betriebswirt (VWA) Bavarian Taxpayers Association, Organization Department

Michael RAUER Bavarian Taxpayers Association, Membership Administration

Daniel JUNKER German Taxpayers Association (BdSt), Assistant to the President

Klaus GRIESHABER Bavarian Taxpayers Association, Head of Tax Department


General Conference ERB Organizational Affairs

Media Affairs

Dr Barbara KOLM

Chairman Austrian Economics Center (AEC), European Resource Bank

Prof Pierre GARELLO President of the Institute for Economic Studies - Europe (IES), European Resource Bank

Luca BERTOLETTI Austrian Economics Centre (AEC)

Prof Rudolf G. MAIER

Press Officer, Bavarian Taxpayers Association, World and European Taxpayers Associations Editor in Chief of “Klartext”,

Dr Ralf SCHNEIDER

CEO rs Medienberatung, Member of Board of Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE), Vice President European Journalist Association

Dipl.-Politologin Julia BERG, M.A. Press officer German Taxpayers Association, Editor in Chief of “Der Steuerzahler”


Conference Organizers

World Taxpayers Associations 55 Tufton Street UK-London SW1P 3QL

Bund der Steuerzahler Deutschland e. V. Französische Str. 9-12 D-10117 Berlin

Taxpayers Association of Europe Nymphenburger Strasse 118 D-80636 München

Media Partner

Print and Online Media

Cooperation Partners and Sponsors

http://worldtaxpayers.org/

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