Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Top 100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting
I am honored (and surprised) to be included on the list of Accounting Today's Top 100 Most Inluential People for the third year in a row. The magazine contains one-sentence explanations of why each of the folks made the list; here is mine:
One of the most widely read tax sites on the Internet, Caron's TaxProf Blog is frequently cited and linked to by other blogs, attracting an audience of faithful readers.
I am honored to be on the list with such high-powered people in the tax and accounting worlds, including:
Politicans:
Government and Industry Group Officials:
- Ernest Almonte (Chair, AICPA)
- Robert Attmore (Chair, GASB)
- Christopher Cox (Chair, SEC)
- J. Russell George (Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration)
- Robert Herz (Chair, FASB)
- Barry Melanconi (President & CEO, AICPA)
- Mark Olson (Chair, PCAOB)
- Nina Olson (National Taxpayer Advocate, IRS)
- Henry Paulson (Secretary of the Treasury)
- Douglas Shulman (Commissioner, IRS)
CEOs of Major Accounting Firms:
CEOs of Tax & Accounting Companies & Publishers:
- Jonathan Baron (Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting)
- Kevin Robert (Wolters Kluwer)
- Mike Sabbatis (CCH)
- Brad Smith (Intuit)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2008/10/top-100-most-influential-people-in-tax-and-accounting.html
Comments
Congratulations! Don't be surprised; it's a well-deserved honor.
Posted by: Kay @ Don't Mess With Taxes | Oct 28, 2008 2:37:45 PM
Congrats Paul. Notably not one judge (or justice) is on the list. So much for the supposed influence of the judiciary.
Posted by: Govt Guy | Oct 29, 2008 11:59:54 AM