Marcus Shore.

• Date: 01 November 2020

Marcus Shore was working at a law firm when a partner suggested that he work with a couple of tax attorneys at the firm. It turned out to be a good suggestion. "I enjoyed the tax work enough that I soon made the decision to focus on tax and make use of my undergraduate degree in accounting, ultimately pursuing an LL.M. in taxation to expand my knowledge of tax. It was the right decision for me. I have thoroughly enjoyed the many issues and transactions I have worked on over the course of my career with several Fortune 500 companies," says Shore, now senior tax consultant at Dominion Energy Inc.

Shore began working at Dominion Energy in March. "I left Ernst & Young at the end of last year, thinking it was time to move on from the tax outsourcing arrangement that EY had taken on when the company where I had worked as the director of federal tax for eleven years outsourced their tax department and moved forty-five of us over to EY," he says. "When I left EY, I wasn't ready to retire, so I applied for a tax position at Dominion. The timing just happened to work out."

What's the most interesting tax issue Shore has worked on at Dominion Energy so far? "Dominion Energy has been working on building an offshore wind farm that will be very large and located more than thirty miles off the Virginia coast," Shore explains. "Building a wind farm offshore is far more challenging and takes considerably longer than building one onshore. It has been personally rewarding to work with the project team to help plan development of the project to ensure that it qualifies for the Section 48 energy credit, that is, the investment tax credit, which will help the...