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Douglas A.  Shackelford

Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of Taxation of Accounting
 
Address: CB #3490
Chapel Hill, NC 
27599-3490
Office: McColl 4205
  (919) 962-3197
 
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Areas of Expertise

  • accounting
  • tax
  • tax: strategy

Media Mentions

2009

Dow Jones Newswires featured new research by accounting professor Doug Shackelford in "Lawmakers Ask Obama to Use Budget to Fight Tax." (Feb. 20) Tax Notes International featured the 12th annual UNC Tax Symposium as its cover story, "Minding the Book-Tax Gap." (Feb. 2)

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Biography

Douglas Shackelford is the Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of Taxation and director of the UNC Tax Center. His research and teaching address taxes and business strategy.

Current areas of interest include the effects of shareholder taxes on equity prices, the taxation of multinationals and the disclosure of corporate tax information. He has published widely in accounting, economics and finance journals.

Dr. Shackelford is a research associate in public economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. He has held visiting faculty positions at Stanford University and Universiteit Maastricht in the Netherlands.

A CPA, he was a senior tax consultant with Arthur Andersen in Boston and Greensboro from 1981-85.

He received his PhD from the University of Michigan and his BS from UNC-Chapel Hill.




Recent Media Mentions

2009
  • Dow Jones Newswires featured new research by accounting professor Doug Shackelford in "Lawmakers Ask Obama to Use Budget to Fight Tax." (Feb. 20) Tax Notes International featured the 12th annual UNC Tax Symposium as its cover story, "Minding the Book-Tax Gap." (Feb. 2)

2008
  • Tax Notes International featured accounting professor Doug Shackelford and the 11th annual UNC Tax Symposium in "Black Holes, Tax Shelters, and Other Surprises–Proof by Data: A Carolina Tradition." (Feb. 11)

2007
  • The Atlanta-Journal Constitution quoted accounting professor Doug Shackelford in "Corporate taxes hard to pin down." (April 15) The Daytona Beach News Journal quoted him in "Lawmakers still wrangling over property taxes." (April 7)

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