Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- McLure, Charles E.
- Abstract:
- Correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, working papers, and printed matter relating to American taxation policy during the presidential administration of Ronald Reagan and especially to worldwide unitary taxation proposals.
- Extent:
- 25 manuscript boxes (12.5 Linear Feet)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Charles E. McLure papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Comprised of correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, working papers, and printed matter relating to American taxation policy during the Ronald Reagan administration. Materials are mostly focused on fundamental tax reform and worlwide unitary taxation proposals. There is a large amount of memoranda which is accompanied by supplementary materials related to tax reform. Original folder and binder titles have been retained when possible.
- Biographical / historical:
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Charles E. McLure, Jr. was born in Sierra Blanca, Texas on April 14, 1940. He received degrees in economics from the University of Kansas and Princeton University. He attended the University of Kansas for a Bachelor's degree from 1958 to 1962. He then attended Princeton for both his Master's and Doctoral degrees between 1962 and 1966. After a few years of teaching at Rice University, McLure served as the Vice President of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1977 to 1981. In 1983, he became Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis. McLure was responsible for developing the Treasury Department's proposals to President Ronald Reagan for income tax reform. This work would be the basis for the Tax Reform Act of 1986. He was also Staff Director of the Working Group on Worldwide Unitary Taxation. At the end of his term as Deputy Assistant in 1985, he received the Treasury Department's Exceptional Service Award. McLure has written extensively about tax reform and taxation, and has served as a consultant to various U.S. governmental agencies and international organizations. He received the Daniel Holland Medal from the National Tax Association in 2004.
McLure is currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution specializing in the economics of tax policy.
Date Event 1962 B.A., University of Kansas1962-1965 M.A. and Ph.D., University of Princeton1965-1977 Professor, Rice University1977-1981 Vice president, National Bureau of Economic Research1979 Author, Must Corporate Income Be Taxed Twice?1981- Senior fellow, Hoover Institution1983-1985 Deputy assistant secretary of the treasury for tax analysis, Department of the Treasury, United States1985 Received Exception Service Award from Department of the Treasury1986 Author, Economic Perspectives on State Taxation of Multijurisdictional Corporations1987 Author, The Value Added Tax: Key to Deficit Reduction, with Mark A. Bloomfield1990 Author, The Taxation of Income from Business and Capital in Colombia1999 Author, Fiscal Transition in Kazakhstan, with Jorge Martinez and Sally Wallace2004 Received the Daniel Holland Medal, National Tax Association - Acquisition information:
- Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1999.
- Physical location:
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
- Terms of access:
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For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Charles E. McLure papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Location of this collection:
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Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-6003, US
- Contact:
- (650) 723-3563