Charles E. McLure, Jr.
Charles E. McLure, Jr. is a Senior Fellow at
the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Hoover
Institution he was Vice President of the National Bureau of Economic Research
(1977-81) and Cline Professor of economics at Rice University (1975-79).
As Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis from 1983 to
1985, 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. He received
the Treasury Department's Exceptional Service Award in 1985, and in 2004 the
National Tax Association awarded him the Daniel M. Holland Medal "for
distinguished lifetime contributions to the study and practice of public
finance."
A specialist in the economics of taxation, McLure has written extensively on
federal tax reform, intergovernmental fiscal relations, the value added tax and
other forms of consumption-based taxation, relief from double taxation of
corporate dividends, state corporate income taxes, taxation of natural
resources, and taxation in developing countries. His current research focuses on
taxation of electronic commerce and tax competition.
McLure has served as a Senior Economist on the staff of the President's Council
of Economic Advisers, as a consultant to various agencies of the U.S.
government, as an adviser to several international organizations (including the
World Bank, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the
InterAmerican Development Bank), as a member of the OECD's Technical Advisory
Group on taxation of Business Profits, and as an adviser to several dozen
countries, most notably Bolivia, Colombia, and Kazakhstan.
Books McLure has written include: