Tax Policy Center

Tax Policy Center

Abbreviation	TPC
Formation	January 9, 2002; 15 years ago (2002-01-09)
Type	Public Policy Think Tank
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Robert C. Pozen director	Leonard Burman
Website	www.taxpolicycenter.org

The Tax Policy Center (TPC), officially the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, is a think tank based in Washington D.C. A joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, it aims to provide independent analyses of current and longer-term tax issues, and to communicate its analyses to the public and to policymakers. TPC combines national specialists in tax, expenditure, budget policy, and microsimulation modeling to concentrate on five overarching areas of tax policy: fair, simple and efficient taxation, social policy in the tax code, business tax reform, long-term implications of tax and budget choices, and state tax issues.

In 2002, tax specialists who had served in the Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton administrations established the Tax Policy Center to provide analysis of tax issues. The following year TPC developed a tax simulation model to analyze the federal income tax and proposals to change it. That model has evolved to incorporate new and additional data, changes in federal tax law, and other aspects of the tax system and the economy.

The Tax Policy Center aims to be a nonpartisan organization. It has been described in the media as nonpartisan, center-left, and "Democrat-aligned".

Mark Mazur will replace Leonard Burman as the Robert C. Pozen Director of the Tax Policy Center starting February 1, 2017. Co-Directors are Bill Gale, Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy at the Brookings Institution, and Eric Toder, Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute. Donald Marron, former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and former acting director of the Congressional Budget Office, was Director of TPC from 2010 to 2013. The Center's TaxVox blog is led by tax correspondent Howard Gleckman.