Area of Expertise: Tax, tax policy, alternative minimum tax, tax-related issues, including health care reform

Additional Information: Robert Carroll is an executive in residence with American University’s School of Public Affairs and cofounder and codirector of the university’s Center for Public Finance Research. He is also the Tax Foundation’s vice president for economic policy. Carroll is a nationally recognized tax policy expert who recently served as the U.S. Treasury Department’s deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis, the department’s top tax economist. In that role he oversaw and directed the Treasury Department’s efforts on reform of the tax system, including providing analytical and other support to the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform. He has also served as a senior economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and a visiting scholar at the Congressional Budget Office. He has published numerous papers on a wide range of tax issues in the Journal of Labor Economics, National Tax Journal,the Review of Economics and Statistics, Public Finance Review, and Tax Policy and the Economy. He has testified before Congress on a wide range of tax issues, including tax reform, the alternative minimum tax, health care, the solvency of the highway trust funds, and expiring tax provisions.

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