James B. Mackie III, 2026 Davie-Davis Award Recipient

James B. Mackie III is the recipient of the 2026 Davie-Davis Public Service Award. Mr. Mackie is a retired economist who specialized in business tax issues. He spent 32 years in the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Tax Analysis where he served as the Director, the head of the Revenue Estimating Division and a member of the Business Tax Staff. After retiring from the Treasury, he was for several years the Co-Director of EY’s Quantitative Economics and Statistics group. He retired from EY at the end of 2024 and now is a photographer. 

Mr. Mackie was active in the National Tax Association (NTA) and organized its annual Spring Symposium in 2005 and served as Vice President and then President from 2019-2022. For several years he represented the Treasury at meetings of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He shared with Harry Grubert the NTA’s Musgrave Prize for 2000. Upon his retirement from government, he received the Hamilton Award for outstanding contributions to the U.S. Treasury.

Mr. Mackie has a bachelor’s degree from Towson University and a PhD from the University of Virginia. 

A full list of previous winners can be found here.