Brandon DeBot

Brandon DeBot (LinkedIn) is a Senior Attorney Advisor and Policy Director at the Tax Law Center at NYU Law, where he leads work that cuts across tax issue areas and different parts of the tax system. Before rejoining the Tax Law Center, he served as Special Assistant to the President for Tax Policy at the White House National Economic Council (NEC), where he helped develop and implement the Biden Administration’s tax and budget policy agenda.

Brandon previously worked at the Center as an Attorney Advisor focused on tax litigation and administrative law issues, as well as the Center’s engagement with federal tax policy debates and collaborations with external partners. Before that, he served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Susan L. Carney on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Jeffrey A. Meyer on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Prior to law school, Brandon worked as a tax and budget Policy Advisor at the NEC during the Obama Administration, and at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), most recently as a Tax Policy Fellow. At CBPP, he authored analyses on a range of tax and budget policy issues, and his publications were frequently cited by the media and policymakers. Additionally, Brandon worked for several years as an advisor for Sperling Economic Strategies, where he advised former NEC Director Gene Sperling on tax and other economic policy issues. He has served for three tax seasons as a certified tax preparer through the IRS’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.

Brandon holds a JD from Yale Law School and a BA in Government, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College.