Jared Walczak is an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center, president of Walczak Policy Consulting, and Senior Fellow at the Tax Foundation, where he spent five years as Vice President of State Projects. He serves as a member of the faculty of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation, sits on the state tax advisory board of the Institute for State Policy Leaders, and contributes to Tax Notes State magazine. He is the author of the “SALT Road” Substack, a free newsletter on state and local tax policy.