Partner

Caroline L. Harris

Caroline L. Harris leverages fifteen years of experience in Washington to provide clients with a variety of services, including evaluating tax policy proposals, providing strategic advice on advocacy, and advocating for client interests. 

Before joining Capitol Tax Partners, Caroline spent nearly a decade and a half as the chief tax counsel at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where she directed the development and promotion of the Chamber’s policy on tax-related matters. She successfully led the Chamber’s efforts to secure the first major tax bill in 31 years, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and subsequently led the Chamber’s regulatory advocacy surrounding the implementation of that bill.

In 2021, she made Washingtonian’s inaugural Most Influential List, which highlights people who work tirelessly as advocates to change and improve the federal policies that have large impacts on people, states, businesses, foreign affairs, safety and security. Harris again was named to the list in both 2022 and 2023.

During her time at the U.S. Chamber, Caroline worked to build business community coalitions, directed Congressional and Administrative advocacy efforts, and oversaw grassroots and grass-tops campaigns. She was a frequent speaker to business leaders, local chambers of commerce, other trade associations, and companies, educating them on pro-growth policy initiatives and analyzing the current legislative outlook. Caroline regularly publicized the business community’s tax policy priorities in both print media and on national television networks.  

In addition to her work on the 2017 tax reform bill, in her role at the Chamber, Caroline worked on all major tax legislation since 2007, including the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2007, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009, the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014, the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, And Economic Security Act, and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.

Caroline earned her LLM in taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center, JD from The George Washington University School of Law, and BA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.