Vice President, Tax
Sunrun
Shirley Chin is the VP, Tax, at Sunrun, the nation's leading residential solar, storage and energy services company. At Sunrun, she enjoys a broad tax practice, strategizing and aligning Sunrun's tax positions through its tax controversy, litigation, policy, operations, finance, compliance and planning landscape. In addition to comment letters to the U.S. Treasury, she also co-authored, as part of the California Delegation to the ABA Tax Section Annual Meeting in 2018, an article titled, Clarifying that an Integral Analysis Is Not Required Under Treas. Reg. Section 1.48-9, advocating for the inclusion of storage to the definition of Section 48 energy property (available on Tax Notes Today).
Prior to joining Sunrun, Shirley spent ten years at the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, Large Business and International Division, auditing, advising and litigating corporate, partnership, and international tax issues. She was appointed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 515 as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in AT&T, Inc. v. United States of America, Civil No. SA-07-CA-197-OG (W.D. Tex. Jul. 16, 2009), affirmed, 629 F.3d 505 (5th Cir. Tex. 2011), cert. denied, 565 U.S. 815 (2011) and received a Lucite award for successfully litigating a case with significant tax impact.
Shirley was born in Rangoon, Burma, grew up in Hong Kong, and immigrated to the U.S. when she was 10 years old. After learning English from ESL programs and voracious reading, she went on to earn her undergraduate degrees at U.C.L.A in Economics/Business and Political Science, then earned her C.P.A. as a tax accountant at Price Waterhouse, and finally, obtained joint law and public administration degrees from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. She started her legal career at the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where she practiced corporate transactional law.
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM