Speaker: Viva Hammer
Viva Hammer (Legislation Counsel, U.S Joint Committee on Taxation) While at the Joint Committee on Taxation in the US Congress, Viva Hammer was lead counsel on the international provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the most significant US tax reform in 30 years. She also designed the Modernization of Derivatives Tax Act (MODA) for Senator Wyden and the Progressive Goods and Services Act for Senator Cardin. Viva received her B.Ec./LLB, with First Class Honours, from the University of Sydney and has practiced in Washington DC and New York, as a partner in a major law firm and a Big Four Accounting firm, as well as at the Office of Tax Policy at the US Treasury.