Tom is Managing Member and founder of the Firm. He assists clients with multistate business tax issues and represents many multistate and multinational companies and their owners and executives, before various state departments of revenue across the country, as well as before the Ohio Department of Taxation, other federal and state agencies, municipal tax authorities, the Ohio Board of Tax Appeals, Ohio Supreme Court, and the Ohio General Assembly. Tom currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. He is a Past-Chair of both The Ohio Chamber of Commerce and The Ohio Society of CPAs. He also serves as Treasurer of the Manufacturing Policy Alliance.

Previously, Tom served as Ohio Tax Commissioner and a member of Governor Bob Taft’s cabinet. As Tax Commissioner, Tom led the Ohio Department of Taxation, which is responsible for administering most state-collected taxes, several locally collected taxes, and for supervising the real property tax. His role included guiding the development of Ohio’s tax policy through state and federal legislative efforts. Tom also worked closely with tax administrators in other states as a participant in the Federation of Tax Administrators, the Multistate Tax Commission and as chair of Ohio’s delegation to the Implementing States Committee of the Streamlined Sales Tax Project.

Following an ethical scandal at the Ohio State Racing Commission in 2004, Tom was appointed by Governor Taft to the Racing Commission in order to assist the newly appointed Chair and Executive Director to reform the Racing Commission. He was reappointed to the Racing Commission by Governor Strickland in 2007 and was instrumental in guiding the Strickland administration’s understanding of Ohio’s gaming laws.

Tom was also a tax partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. At PwC, Tom represented clients in a wide variety of federal and multistate tax matters. Tom was also a founding member of the firm’s National VISION Team, a special project management service provided to large clients to assist in the implementation of significant business process and legal entity changes.

Events

• Tax Reform Panel

  Wednesday, May 13
  1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

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