This Wednesday: Last Tax Policy Colloquium of the year, with Kyle Willmott

On Wednesday at 11:35 EST via zoom, the Spiegel Sohmer Tax Policy Colloquium at McGill University will continue with a presentation by Kyle Willmott, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Simon Fraser University.

Prof. Willmott will share his working g paper, “Taxes, Taxpayers, and Settler Colonialism: Toward a Critical Fiscal Sociology of Tax as White Property,” forthcoming in the Law and Society Review. The paper traces the construction of taxpayer concerns and tax myths in order to demonstrate the importance of tax to settler colonialism and the shape of Indigenous-settler relations. Willmott argues that taxpayers “are not just legal or material positionings in relation to tax and the state, but powerful subjects that refigure political problems as ‘fiscal’ and construct Indigenous people and nations through racialized repertoires of property and possession.”

As always, all are welcome to join; please click here to receive the zoom info.

This will be the final presentation of the 2021 Spiegel Sohmer Tax Policy Colloquium. I want to thank everyone who has joined the colloquium and engaged with the papers or the speakers in real time or via YouTube (if you missed any and want to catch up, you can do so by visiting the playlist here). It has been a wonderful colloquium series and I have learned so much from our speakers, students, and guests. Hope to see many of you in the future.