Partner

Sarah Shive

Sarah Shive leverages her combination of legal, government, and private sector experience to provide strategic counsel to clients to develop effective advocacy efforts, evaluate the impacts of tax policy proposals, and promote client interests. both on Capitol Hill and with the Administration. She focuses her work on corporate, international, and OECD tax policy issues with Capitol Hill and the Administration. 

Before joining Capitol Tax, Sarah led domestic and global tax policy advocacy for the Information Technology Industry Council as Vice President of Government Affairs. In that role, she advised some of the world’s largest and most innovative companies on tax policy and built the consensus necessary to allow the technology sector to speak with one voice on critical tax issues. Most notably, Sarah led ITI’s engagement on the OECD’s project to address the tax challenges of the digitalization of the economy and on legislative and regulatory work related to the implementation of the international provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. In her role she advocated for ITI’s priorities both with the Administration and on Capitol Hill. In addition, Sarah led ITI’s advocacy efforts on trade issues, including digital services taxes, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and digital trade. Sarah frequently represented ITI in national and tax press and, she was also a frequent speaker in events hosted by U.S. and global organizations. 

Sarah also brings significant government experience to Capitol Tax, serving as Senior Counsel to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) and then Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), both senior members of the Senate Finance Committee. During her Senate tenure, Sarah worked on a number of significant tax bills, including the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014, the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015, and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, and successfully secured the enactment of over a dozen tax provisions. In 2015, she was featured as a “Tax Staffer to Know” by Tax Notes.

Before working in government, Sarah practiced law at Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, where she focused on litigation. She earned her JD from the Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law and her BA in Organizational Communication from Marietta College.