Our guest this week is Rohit Kumar, former top policy aide to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and current coleader of the Washington National Tax Services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He will talk about tax policy in a lame duck congressional session, including the fate of key expired tax provisions.

This interview is part of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center series of online conversations on tax and fiscal policy in today’s economy. The discussions take place every other Thursday afternoon and feature varying perspectives on the historic economic challenges facing the United States and the world and the best ways to address them.