Full Name
Barbara Angus
Job Title
Consultant
Company
Ernst & Young LLP
Speaker Bio
Barbara M. Angus currently is a consultant with Ernst & Young LLP. Prior to her retirement as a Principal in June 2024, she was EY’s Global Tax Policy Leader, engaging with clients on tax policy development and implementation around the globe.
From 2016 through 2018, Barbara served as Chief Tax Counsel for the Committee on Ways and Means of the United States House of Representatives. She had responsibility for work on all tax matters before the Committee and played a key role in the development and enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
In prior public-sector roles, Barbara was the international tax lead for the Office of Tax Policy, United States Department of the Treasury, serving as the federal government's principal legal advisor on all aspects of international tax policy and representing the United States in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development as a Vice Chair of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs, and she earlier was the business tax counsel for the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.
Barbara has more than 25 years of private sector experience in international tax matters, including forming a consulting firm that developed legislative and regulatory solutions for multinational clients and advising clients as a national partner in the federal tax policy group of another Big Four firm and as a partner with a major law firm.
Barbara received the Pillar of Excellence Award from the Tax Council Policy Institute in 2022 and the Distinguished Service Award from the Tax Foundation in 2018. She was included in the list of ten Outstanding Women in Tax published by Tax Analysts in 2016. She has been an adjunct professor in the tax L.L.M. programs at Georgetown University Law Center, DePaul University College of Law, and Chicago-Kent College of Law. She also was a founding member of an all-lawyer comedy troupe in Chicago.
Barbara received an A.B. (mathematics and economics), magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Dartmouth College; a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School; and an M.B.A. (finance and accounting), with high honors, from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
She is based in Washington, D.C.
From 2016 through 2018, Barbara served as Chief Tax Counsel for the Committee on Ways and Means of the United States House of Representatives. She had responsibility for work on all tax matters before the Committee and played a key role in the development and enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
In prior public-sector roles, Barbara was the international tax lead for the Office of Tax Policy, United States Department of the Treasury, serving as the federal government's principal legal advisor on all aspects of international tax policy and representing the United States in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development as a Vice Chair of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs, and she earlier was the business tax counsel for the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.
Barbara has more than 25 years of private sector experience in international tax matters, including forming a consulting firm that developed legislative and regulatory solutions for multinational clients and advising clients as a national partner in the federal tax policy group of another Big Four firm and as a partner with a major law firm.
Barbara received the Pillar of Excellence Award from the Tax Council Policy Institute in 2022 and the Distinguished Service Award from the Tax Foundation in 2018. She was included in the list of ten Outstanding Women in Tax published by Tax Analysts in 2016. She has been an adjunct professor in the tax L.L.M. programs at Georgetown University Law Center, DePaul University College of Law, and Chicago-Kent College of Law. She also was a founding member of an all-lawyer comedy troupe in Chicago.
Barbara received an A.B. (mathematics and economics), magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Dartmouth College; a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School; and an M.B.A. (finance and accounting), with high honors, from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
She is based in Washington, D.C.
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