Mark J. Mazur is an American

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who formerly served as Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in the

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Early life and education

Mark Mazur received a

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in financial administration from Michigan State University and earned a

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from Stanford University.

Career

Mazur early worked as a tax accountant for General Motors before spending four years teaching

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at Carnegie Mellon University. Later, he entered government, working first as a staff member on the

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and, later, in several middle management positions at the

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and the U.S. Department of Energy. He eventually moved to the Internal Revenue Service where he was appointed to the senior-level position of director of research, analysis, and statistics of income. In 2009 Mazur was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis. He was named Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in 2011, being confirmed to the post by the

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the following year. In 2017, Mazur left the U.S. government to accept a position as director of the

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, a joint project of the

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and the

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