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Tax Foundation Staff

Ayat Ashraf

Ayat Ashraf is a 2026 summer intern with the Tax Foundation’s Center for Global Tax Policy.

Latest Work

Foreign Research and Development, OBBBA Full Expensing

The Hidden Costs of Foreign R&D Amortization

Foreign R&D generally complements domestic innovation rather than substituting for it, so penalizing foreign R&D weakens US firms in cross-border mergers and acquisitions and in domestic production that depends on global scale.

7 min read