Mark Prater, a longtime Senate tax staffer who played a key role in pushing through the new GOP tax law, has landed at the consulting and audit firm PwC after leaving Capitol Hill, the company announced Monday.
“As businesses navigate the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, we are thrilled to have Mark join the PwC team,” said Pam Olson, the company’s Washington national tax services leader.
Prater had served on the Senate Finance Committee since 1990. As tax counsel for the committee’s Republicans, he helped shepherd the Trump tax cuts through the upper chamber. “Mark has played a vital role in every major tax debate in the last quarter century,” committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said in announcing Prater’s departure last month.
With Prater’s addition, PwC’s tax team is becoming a who’s who of key congressional tax experts. It already included former Republican House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, as well as former staffers for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Ways and Means Democrats.
