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Professor Davenport graduated
from Chico State College and received his J.D. from Harvard. He practiced in San Francisco for several years before joining
the staff of tax legislative counsel in the Treasury Department. Later, while teaching at the University of California at Davis, he was appointed assistant director of the Congressional
Budget Office for the Tax Analysis Division. Following this tour of duty in Washington, D.C., he
joined the faculty at Rutgers-Newark where he taught Federal Income Taxation,
Estate and Gift Taxation, and Tax Policy. Operating under a contract with the Administrative Conference of the United States, he directed a staff that spent a year studying procedures of the Internal Revenue Service
and producing a report and recommendations for improvement. With
others, he wrote for the Department of Agriculture a work on the effect
of tax provisions on the agricultural sector of the economy.
Professor Davenport
has written several books and numerous articles and collected and edited two anthologies. For several years,
he has been associated with Tax Analysts, a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization
in Arlington, VA that is dedicated to the publication
of information about our tax systems with the purpose of improving the
level of policy analysis. He has served as special reports editor,
editor-in-chief, chief editorial officer, and is now consulting editor.
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