Timothy J. Urban

Tim Urban leads the Bracewell tax policy practice out of the firm’s Washington, DC-based Policy Resolution Group. He is an experienced tax lobbyist who has advocated for clients on every major tax bill introduced in Congress over the past 20 years. He represents companies on business tax issues, extension of temporary tax provisions, and federal tax policies affecting the energy sector.

Drawing on his two decades at a "Big Four" accounting firm's tax policy group, Tim's work has spanned the breadth of the Internal Revenue Code. He has coordinated ad hoc coalitions of taxpayers pursuing extension of temporary tax provisions and sector-wide groups of Washington-based trade associations.

Regarding federal energy tax policy, he has represented and advised companies on tax policy issues affecting conventional energy companies, such as the 45Q credit for carbon capture and storage (CCS); production credits for hydrogen and for electricity produced from renewable resources (including solar, wind, and hydropower); investment incentives for purchases of renewable energy plant property (hydrogen storage, energy storage, and biogas equipment, for example), and production and blending tax credits for clean fuels including biodiesel, renewable diesel, cellulosic ethanol, sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), renewable natural gas, and methanol.

Tim previously served as the Committee on Ways and Means Staff Associate for a member of the House tax-writing committee. In that capacity, he advised on business and energy tax policy issues; wrote member speeches; drafted legislation and supporting materials; and coordinated closely with tax committees and the staff of the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.

Education
B.A., George Washington University, 1984
US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center

Languages
Reading Latin

Awards
Recipient of military awards from the Governments of France and Italy, 1985

KNOWN FOR: Coordinating the tax extenders coalition; representing ad hoc groups of renewable energy trade associations on tax legislation; focusing on federal tax treatment of next generation energy and environmental technologies.

INTERESTING CAREER NOTE: Is most commonly associated with the enactment of production tax credits for pre-existing renewable generation facilities, and refundable tax credits for environmentally-friendly biofuel producers.

FAST FACT: Possibly the only Bracewell Senior Principal awarded military decorations by the governments of Italy and France.