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.

Jared has written or co-written tax reform guides for more than a dozen states and has served as the principal author of the Tax Foundation's State Tax Competitiveness Index (formerly the State Business Tax Climate Index) and Location Matters. He is also a regular on the conference circuit and has testified before legislatures in 35 states. His efforts have been instrumental in securing tax reform in many states, including the sweeping reforms in Iowa and Louisiana, along with substantive reforms in Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming, among others.