Jeff Hoopes has acquired the 2023 Bullard College Analysis Influence Award which acknowledges a professor whose analysis has had a major impression on the apply of enterprise. This award was created by the generosity of Clifford E. “Clif” Bullard Jr. (BSBA ’76), CEO of the Bullard Restaurant Group, and his spouse Rachelle Bullard. Their objective was to encourage and supply incentives for college members to think about the impression on the enterprise world as they select analysis matters and talk their outcomes.
Jeff is the Analysis Director for the UNC Tax Middle and an Affiliate Professor within the Accounting. A committee with representatives from each the educational {and professional} group discovered his work on the results of private and non-private tax disclosures to point out the type of impression that this award was designed to honor.
Specifically, Jeff has revealed two exemplary papers [1 & 2] demonstrating that tax disclosure is expensive and perceived as a menace because of the potential for public backlash towards the corporate. Jeff has additionally revealed greater than a dozen different papers that contact on different tax policy-relevant themes.
Indicative of the broad practitioner curiosity on this analysis, Jeff is well-known amongst journalists and is steadily requested to opine on any variety of tax-related topics within the press. He has 100+ media citations in shops such because the New York Instances, Wall Road Journal, Newsweek, Forbes, CNN, NPR, Fortune, Washington Publish, Time, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, and USA As we speak.
Jeff’s experience has additionally led him to tell policymakers and the general public basically. Jeff has testified in a congressional listening to [3], been requested to evaluated new tax insurance policies by the IRS [4], commented to the SEC [5] and the FASB [6], suggested the CBO [7], co-written an op-ed within the Wall Road Journal with a Senator [8], revealed greater than a dozen different op-eds, and has a podcast known as Tax Chats [9], which has been downloaded tens of 1000’s of instances.
