Tax Analysts is a nonprofit publisher offering the Tax Notes portfolio of products, including weekly magazines featuring commentary, daily online journals featuring news and analysis, and research tools, all focused on tax policy and administration. Tax Analysts also promotes transparency in tax policymaking and holds regular conferences on key tax issues.
History
Thomas F. Field founded Tax Analysts in 1970 as part of an effort to expose tax policymaking to the general public at a time when it was being heavily influenced by special interests. The organization provided analysis on prominent policy debates, offered congressional testimony on proposed legislation and published op-eds that could reach a broader audience. But within 10 years, the group had shifted focus and become the country's foremost provider of unbiased tax information with a style that has since come to be regarded by tax professionals as "the epitome of hard-nosed impartiality."
The organization underwent a restructuring at the end of 2001 as it sought to deal with globalization, technological advances, and increased competition in the tax publishing arena. In 2004, Field retired from Tax Analysts and was succeeded by Christopher Bergin, who had until then been the editor of Tax Notes, the organization's flagship publication.
Cara Griffith succeeded Bergin as CEO in August 2017. The organization currently has 173 employees, most of whom are based out of its Falls Church, Virginia, headquarters, as well as a network of more than 250 domestic and international tax correspondents.
Since its inception, the organization has grown dramatically in size and scope, moving from a relatively small nonprofit to a publisher with correspondents across the country and around the globe providing information to more than 150,000 readers worldwide.
Mission, staffing, and governance
Mission
To shed light on tax policy and administration through aggressive, unbiased reporting and informed commentary from the leaders in the field.
Management team
Cara Griffith - President and CEO
Jeremy Scott - Chief Content Officer
Michael Berkeley - Chief Information Officer
John Ring - Chief Financial Officer
Peter Billingsley - Chief Growth Officer
Ellen Kidwell - Chief People Officer
Board of directors
Ameek Ashok Ponda, chair – a partner at Sullivan & Worcester LLP in Boston and former member of the firm’s management committee. Sharda Cherwoo – Independent board director, start-up mentor, digital transformation leader. Eli J. Dicker – managing director of national markets at Crowe LLP. Karen Hawkins – a former chair of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation. Joseph Huddleston – an executive director in EY’s National Tax Department serving the indirect and state and local tax practices. David J. Kautter – Federal Tax Specialty Leader for RSM and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy who served as acting commissioner of the IRS from November 2017 until October 2018. Tom Neubig – a founding member of the Tax Sage Network, a group of tax policy economists and former director of quantitative economics and statistics at EY. Nina Olson – the executive director of the Center for Taxpayer Rights and former National Taxpayer Advocate. Danielle Rolfes – partner and co-leader of the international tax group within KPMG's Washington National Tax office. H. David Rosenbloom – member of Caplin & Drysdale in Washington and the James S. Eustice Visiting Professor of Taxation and director of the international tax program at New York University School of Law. Sam Sim – Senior adviser, Vienna University Global Tax Policy Center and member of the International Association of Tax Judges. Samuel C. Thompson, Jr. – the Arthur Weiss Distinguished Faculty Scholar and the director of the Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions at Penn State Law.