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In the latest episode of Willis Weighs In, Benjamin Willis, contributing editor for Tax Notes Federal, and Jasper Smith, executive editor for commentary for Tax Notes, discuss Ben’s journey from the foster care system in Providence, Rhode Island to one of the tax industry’s must-watch thought leaders.
Benjamin M. Willis is a contributing editor for Tax Notes Federal. He has worked in PwC’s national mergers and acquisitions and international tax services groups, designing and implementing inbound and outbound cross-border transactions for multinational firms, and as an attorney-adviser in the Treasury Office of Tax Policy.
He also worked as a senior technical adviser in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, as a senior corporate tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee, and as leader of the corporate tax group in BDO’s national office. He writes the column Willis Weighs In.
He received his JD from New England Law Boston and his LLM from Boston University School of Law and specializes in corporate taxation. His new show, Willis Weighs In, will be broadcast monthly on the Tax Analysts YouTube page.