2010 Tax Legislative Review and Outlook
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Payson R. Peabody
Of Counsel
Dykema

Mr. Peabody is charged with developing a federal tax regulatory practice in the Washington, D.C. office to complement Dykema's existing tax practice. Mr. Peabody's experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Department of Justice Tax Division, and as Tax Counsel to the Committee on Ways and Means provides Dykema the opportunity to expand its current federal tax regulatory practice.

Prior to joining Dykema, Mr. Peabody was tax, trade and budget counsel for U.S. Senator Jim Bunning. In that position he drafted and negotiated bipartisan support for tax, trade and budget legislation advanced by Senator Bunning.

Prior to joining Senator Bunning, he was Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and from 2001 to 2005, he was Tax Counsel at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways & Means, working with members of Congress to draft, markup, debate and negotiate tax legislation with the Treasury and Senate.

Mr. Peabody has experience in a wide variety of legal specialties including aviation law, public-private partnerships, and agriculture law. Earlier in his career, he served as Special Assistant to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and more recently, as counsel to the junior Senator from Kentucky, he played a role in negotiating the tax title to the 2008 Farm Bill.

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Alex M. Brill
Economic Policy Advisor
Buchanan Ingersoll

Alex joined Buchanan after having served as senior advisor to former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Bill Thomas. In this role, he served as Congressman Thomas' top policy and political advisor. Alex also served as chief economist for the committee and managed micro- and macro-economic analyses of major legislative proposals, oversaw the chairman's efforts to reform the revenue estimating process and monitored labor markets, trade flows, business investment, small business growth and energy markets.

In 2006, Alex served as top committee staff negotiator for the Tax Relief and Health Care Act, Pension Protection Act and Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act. The pension bill is the most significant rewrite of pension legislation in over 30 years, and the $70 billion Reconciliation Act extended the capital gains and dividend rate cut through 2010, along with ensuring 15 million taxpayers would avoid being pushed onto the alternative minimum tax (AMT).

Prior to serving on the Committee on Ways and Means, Alex served as an economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), where he was on a team that provided advice and analyses regarding national and international economic policies and appraisals of the economy for the President. He also briefed CEA members and participated in various interagency working groups to develop administration policy proposals, and contributed to the 2002 Economic Report of the President.

Alex is a research fellow at the public policy think tank American Enterprise Institute. At AEI, Alex works on tax, health, budget and general economic policy issues including research on policy options for the tax code post-2010 and issues regarding measuring the uncertainty in forecasting long-term projected health care cost

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Benno Tamminga
Director
Deloitte Tax LLP

Benno is a director in the Global VAT Services group of Deloitte and leader of the VAT practice in the East Coast region of the US. He is a Dutch national and since 2000 in New York City after previous bases in London and Amsterdam as a VAT professional. Benno is a specialist in various VAT regimes around the world, particularly focusing on the European Union. Benno has advised a wide range of European and American businesses on the VAT aspects of their international operations in Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific region. He has lectured widely on worldwide VAT issues for organizations including the International Fiscal Association (IFA), the Tax Executives Institute (TEI) and the European-American Tax Institute (E-ATI) and has written several VAT updates. Benno has a Master of Laws degree with tax specialization from the University of Groningen (RuG) in the Netherlands and is a qualified member of the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) and the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CTA), the UK representative body on the Confédération Fiscal Européenne (CFE).

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2010 Tax Legislative Review and Outlook
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