Charles McLure Jr., Hoover senior fellow, is this year's recipient of the National Tax Association's Daniel Holland Medal. He will receive the award at the 97th Annual Conference on Taxation in Minneapolis in November.
The Holland Medal, the NTA's most prestigious award, is named after Daniel Holland, the longtime editor of the National Tax Journal. According to the NTA guidelines, the Holland Medal is "presented to an NTA member for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study and practice of public finance." Past recipients comprise an elite group in the area of public finance: Carl Shoup, Richard Musgrave, George Break, Richard Goode, Lowell Harriss, Oliver Oldman, John Due, Arnold Harberger, Wallace Oates, and Martin Feldstein.
As deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for tax analysis (1983–85), McLure was responsible for developing the Treasury Department's proposals to President Ronald Reagan that became the basis of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the most comprehensive reform of the income tax since its introduction in 1913. He was also staff director of the Working Group on Worldwide Unitary Taxation appointed by Treasury secretary Donald Regan at Reagan's request.
The holder of a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton and a Hoover fellow since 1981, McLure has written extensively on federal tax reform, intergovernmental fiscal relations, various forms of consumption-based taxation, corporate taxation, taxation of electronic commerce, and international aspects of taxation and has been an adviser to numerous foreign governments, as well as international organizations. Books that McLure has written include Fiscal Transition in Kazakhstan (coauthored, 1999); The Taxation of Income from Business and Capital in Colombia (coauthored, 1990); The Value Added Tax: Key to Deficit Reduction (1987); Economic Perspectives on State Taxation of Multijurisdictional Corporations (1986); and Must Corporate Income Be Taxed Twice? (1979).
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