ALICE LIN

Alice Lin is a Visiting Fellow at the Georgetown Center for Poverty and Inequality. She is a tax policy expert on policies relating to a fairer and more equitable tax system, with a focus on poverty, children, and families. 

Alice most recently served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs (Tax & Budget) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she advised senior Treasury officials and executed legislative strategy across all tax policy issues, ranging from international tax to implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act. Prior to that, Alice was a Senior Tax Policy Advisor for the Senate Finance Committee and a Budget and Tax Policy Advisor for the House Ways and Means Committee. In these roles, she worked on various individual and business tax issues, such as energy and infrastructure tax, housing tax, health and benefits tax, and excise taxes. Alice also previously worked for the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and for Rep. Mike Honda (CA-17). 

Alice has worked on major legislation including bipartisan COVID relief and extenders packages as well as expansions to the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit in the American Rescue Plan Act and proposed in Build Back Better. She was also the lead House staffer responsible for developing and writing the energy tax provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. 

Alice holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. She also currently serves as a Senior Advisor, Tax for the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she works on energy and climate tax policy.