118th Annual Conference Call for Papers

November 6 – 8, 2025
The Westin Copley Place
Boston, MA

The 118th Annual Conference on Taxation will cover a broad range of topics in tax policy and public finance. We welcome submissions from the fields of accounting, economics, law, and public policy and administration, as well as research from other fields or by practitioners that relates to these topics. We especially welcome submissions that can speak to current challenges facing policymakers such as the effect of digitalization/e-commerce/remote work on public finances, minimum taxes and international tax law, the child tax credit and other family policies, and global challenges to government finances.

You are invited to submit the following:

• Individual papers to be integrated into sessions. 
• Complete sessions of papers. Please note that complete session proposals are mere suggestions of groupings. The conference committee reserves the right to consider and accept individual papers from a complete session rather than accepting the complete session. Submitters of complete sessions are required to enter abstracts for each paper in the session.
• Panel discussions. Panel discussions are just discussions; they are not based on research papers.

The submission deadline has been extended to Wednesday, May 28, 2025. Decisions concerning the inclusion of papers and sessions will be announced over the summer. All presenters, including members of panel discussions, discussants and session chairs, must then register and pay the conference registration fee to attend and present. Graduate students are invited to submit in any category (single papers, complete sessions, and panel discussions).

Conference Chair
Peter Merrill, President, National Tax Association

Program Chairs
Benjamin Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania
Adam Looney, University of Utah

NEW THIS YEAR!

All Academic

New this year, NTA is using All Academic as our conference submission platform. All conference participants (presenting authors, co-authors, chairs, discussants, moderators, speakers and session organizers) will access the All Academic system using an NTA MemberClicks login. Before you begin your submission, please make sure that everyone that is part of your submission has an NTA MemberClicks account. You will not be able to add them to your paper or session if they don’t have an existing account. Memberclicks account information:

• Please check to see if you have a MemberClicks account here. If you are a current NTA member, were an NTA member or have attended an NTA conference within the last 5 years, you have a MemberClicks account. 
• You can request your username or reset your password if you do not remember them.
• Please check any emails that you have had professionally/academically in the past few years, as well as any personal emails.
• If you think you may have an account under an email address you no longer have access to, please contact nta@ntanet.org for to update your email/username. Please do not create a new/duplicate account. If you have never attended an NTA event or do not have an NTA profile, you can create one here.
• NTA membership is optional and is not required to submit or attend the conference.
• The NTA MemberClicks form requires confidential personal information. Please do not create a profile on behalf of someone else.
• New MemberClicks accounts are synced with All Academic every hour. As such, we encourage submitters who create new accounts to do so well in advance of the submission deadline.
  

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  How to Submit

• Click the button above when you have all your material and you’re ready to start the submission process. There is a button to save your work and submit later if you have to stop in the middle.
• Log in on the right hand side of the screen with your MemberClicks login and password. You can get your login and PW for MemberClicks here. There is an option to have your password sent to you if you forgot it. If you do not have a profile in MemberClicks, you can create one here.
• Click Submit or Edit a Proposal.
• Click Submit a New Proposal.
• Select a subject area that best fits your research.
• Select the proposal type you’re interested in (individual paper, complete session or panel discussion – for descriptions of each, scroll up on this page) and note what you will need for each proposal type.
• Provide title, abstract and answer two questions (is the submission law related, are you a student)
• Click Accept and Continue
• This is where you add participants (Presenting Authors, Authors, Chairs, Discussants, and Panelists). You can search for participants in the box on the left side of the page. If the participant you need to add is not in the database, they will need to create MemberClicks profile. They can do that here. 
• You can use the arrows the switch the order of speakers and use the X’s to delete speakers added erroneously.
• Once the participants are added, you can click Accept and Continue.
• If you are submitting a Complete Session, you will need to complete the above steps for each paper.
• Once you have completed the submission, you will receive a confirmation email. You can log into the system and review your proposals and edit them up until the submission deadline of May 12.
• Questions? Email nta@ntanet.org.