David Kocieniewski, a business reporter for The New York Times has won the Pulitzer for Explanatory Journalism for his series on holes in the corporate income tax base. The Times explained: “David Kocieniewski devoted a year to digging out and exposing the obscure provisions that businesses and the wealthiest Americans exploit to drive their tax bills down to rock bottom. In a series called ‘But Nobody Pays That,’ Mr. Kocieniewski showed how federal tax law takes with one hand but gives – generously – with the other…. The Pulitzer jury said Mr. Kocieniewski’s work ‘penetrated a legal thicket to explain how the nation’s wealthiest citizens and corporations often exploited loopholes and avoided taxes.'”

Mr. Kocieniewski was born in Buffalo, N.Y. He graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1985, and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1986.

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