WASHINGTON, D.C., September 29, 2004—Eric Toder, the Internal Revenue Service's director of research from 2001 until earlier this month, will become a senior fellow in the Urban Institute's Income and Benefits Policy Center in January. Toder held a similar position at the Institute from 1999 to 2001.
Toder supervised IRS research on compliance with tax laws, taxpayer burdens, and returns from enforcement activities. At the Urban Institute, where he was a visiting scholar in 1997 and principal research associate in 1998, Toder directed the development of the Model of Income in the Near-Term (MINT) for the Social Security Administration. This microsimulation model projects the future retirement income of today's workers and is used to analyze the long-run distributional consequences of proposed Social Security reforms. At the Institute, Toder also studied the effects of demographic changes on labor supply, saving, and economic growth, as well as the use of tax incentives to meet social and economic policy goals.
From 1993 to 1996, Toder was deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis at the U.S. Treasury Department. In that position, he served as the chief advisor on tax economics to the secretary of the treasury and directed 45 economists who estimate the budgetary and economic effects of federal tax policies.
Toder has also been deputy assistant director of the Tax Analysis Division at the Congressional Budget Office (1984-88 and 1991-93), deputy director for domestic taxation in the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Analysis (1983-84), and director of the Office of Finance and Tax Analysis at the Department of Energy (1980-81). From 1988 to 1991, he advised New Zealand's Treasury on tax reform proposals.
"Whether designing microsimulation models or investigating the effects of tax proposals on America's burgeoning population of retirees, Eric uses his unique research skills and keen imagination to bring new understanding to highly complex economic issues," says Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute. "It's wonderful to welcome him back to the Institute."
Toder, who holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Rochester, has been a visiting professor of economics at the University of Michigan and an assistant professor of economics at Tufts University. He is the author of numerous articles on capital gains taxation, international taxation, energy taxation, the compliance costs of taxation, and other tax policy issues.
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