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Robert Carroll
Vice President for Economic Policy
carroll@taxfoundation.org
Dr. Robert Carroll is Vice President for Economic Policy at the Tax Foundation. He oversees the Tax Foundation's tax research program, with a special focus on business taxation and the need for corporate tax reform. Dr. Carroll is also an Executive-in-Residence with American University's School of Public Affairs. Dr. Carroll most recently served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis in the Office of Tax Policy at the Department of the Treasury, a position he began in December of 2003.
Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Tax Analysis Division of the Congressional Budget Office. From July 2002 to June 2003 he served as a Senior Economist (Public Finance) with the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree in economics from Syracuse University and a B.S. in economics from State University of New York.
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Contributions
- How Do the Presidential Candidates’ Tax Plans Affect Taxpayers’ Marginal Tax Rates?, by Robert Carroll, October 6, 2008
- Reforming a Broken Health Care System is No Joke: A Response to Brad Delong's Blog Post, by Robert Carroll, September 19, 2008
- McCain's Health Credit: The Intersection of Health Policy and Tax Policy, by Robert Carroll, September 16, 2008
- Comparing International Corporate Tax Rates: U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Increasingly Out of Line by Various Measures, by Robert Carroll, August 28, 2008
- The 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief: The Benefit of Lower Tax Rates, by Robert Carroll, August 23, 2008
- Senator McCain’s and Senator Obama’s Tax Plans: Different Roads Taken, by Robert Carroll, August 15, 2008
- Tax: Fundamentals in Advance of Reform (Testimony of Robert J. Carroll Before the Senate Committee on Finance), by Robert Carroll, April 15, 2008
- The Economic Consequences of Being Left Behind: A U.S. Business Tax System that is Out of Line Internationally, by Robert Carroll, April 4, 2008
- Fiscal Stimulus: Missing the Big Picture?, by Robert Carroll, January 11, 2008
