WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday announced his intent to nominate Mark J. Mazur as the Treasury Department’s assistant secretary for tax policy, who signs off on muni-related and other tax regulatory proposals.
Mazur, Treasury’s deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis since 2009, would replace Michael Mundaca, who left the department in May.
Once he is formally nominated by the president, he will have to be approved by the Senate Banking Committee and confirmed by the full Senate.
Mazur was director of research, analysis, and statistics of income for the Internal Revenue Service from 2001 to 2009, according to White House officials.
From 1999 through 2001, he worked at the Energy Department, first as director of the office of policy and chief economist, and then as acting administrator of the Energy Information Administration. He was a senior director to the National Economic Council from 1995 though 1997 and a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisors from 1993 to 1995.
Mazur has a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University.
