The National Tax Journal is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Musgrave Prize and the 2024 Referee Award

The National Tax Journal is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Musgrave Prize and the 2024 Referee Award. 

The Richard A. Musgrave Prize was created in 1999 and is presented each year to the author(s) of the best article published in the National Tax Journal. The award is a tribute to Richard Musgrave, whose work throughout his luminous career was characterized by a powerful blend of analytical clarity, insight drawn from the historical record, and respect for the importance of administrative issues. With this award, the National Tax Association recognizes his many contributions to public policy theory, research, and practice.

This year, the Musgraves Prize has been presented to Jason DeBacker, Bradley T. Heim, Anh Tran, and Alexander Yuskavage, for their article "Seeking Professional Help: How Paid Preparers Decrease Tax Compliance."

The annual NTJ Referee Award recognizes two individuals who have been exceptionally helpful as referees over the course of the year. The recipients of this award provided stellar service to the NTJ, preparing reports that were particularly insightful, comprehensive, constructive, and timely.

This year, the Referee Award has been presented to Emilie Jackson and Jason DeBacker.

The goal of the National Tax Journal (NTJ) is to encourage and disseminate high quality original research on governmental tax and expenditure policies. The journal publishes peer reviewed articles that include economic, theoretical, and empirical analyses of tax and expenditure issues with an emphasis on policy implications. Most issues include a Forum, which consists of invited papers by leading scholars that examine in depth a single current tax or expenditure policy issue. The NTJ has been published quarterly since 1948 under the auspices of the National Tax Association (NTA).