On September 19, 2014, Professor John Plecnik spoke on tax policy at the 2014 Joint Fall CLE Meeting of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation in Denver, Colorado.  Professor Plecnik was invited to speak as a result of his article, “The New Flat Tax,” which ranked number one as the most downloaded recent tax paper on the Social Science Research Network shortly after its publication in the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly this spring. 

Plecnik spoke as part of a panel on wealth taxation and the Apportionment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.  Professor Plecnik’s panel was hosted by the ABA Tax Policy and Simplification Committee.  It was moderated by Roger Royse of the Royse Law Firm PC, and included Professor Alice Abreu of Temple University Beasley School of Law, Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and Professor Richard Lavoie of the University of Akron School of Law.