Gregory F. Jenner
Former Acting Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy), Office of Tax Policy
United States Department of the Treasury
Gregory F. Jenner is an attorney and consultant in Washington, DC.
Through 2006, he served as Executive Vice President, Taxes and Retirement Security, for the American Counsel of Life Insurers.
Immediately before joining ACLI, Greg served as the Acting Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy) from February 2004, to December 2004, and was nominated by President George W. Bush to be Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy). Prior to his elevation to Acting Assistant Secretary, Mr. Jenner served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, beginning in 2002.
As the Acting Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy), Greg directed the Office of Tax Policy, which is responsible for providing the Department with policy analysis, advice and recommendations relating to all aspects of domestic and international issues of Federal taxation, including all legislative proposals, regulatory guidance, and tax treaties. The Office of Tax Policy is also responsible for providing the official estimates of all Federal Government receipts for the President's budget, fiscal policy decisions, and Treasury cash management decisions.
Prior to his appointment as Deputy Assistant Secretary, Greg was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti, LLP, specializing in tax policy issues before Congress, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service. Greg previously served in the Treasury Department as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy) from 1989 through 1992. He also served as Tax Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance from 1985 through 1989, where he helped write the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
Greg is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia and the United States Tax Court. In addition, he is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. He has been an active member of the American Bar Association's Section of Taxation, including service as Vice Chair for Communications, as a member of the Section's Council, and chair of the Section's Corporate Tax Shelter Task Force and Government Relations Committee. Greg has been a frequent speaker on continuing legal education topics. He received a B.S. with highest honors from Portland State University (1975), and a J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law (1979).