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Paul Caron blogs about a Accounting Today’s recently published list of America’s Top 100 Most Influential People in tax and accounting.

Professor Caron is on the list for the fourth year in a row.

Here are some other tax and accounting heavyweights:

Politicans:

• Sen. Max Baucus (Chair, Senate Finance Committee)
• Rep. Barney Frank (Chair, House Financial Services Committee)
• Sen. Chuck Grassley (Ranking Member, Senate Finance Committee)
• President Barack Obama
• Rep. Charles Rangel (Chair, House Ways & Means Committee) 

Government and Industry Group Officials:

• Robert Attmore (Chair, GASB)
• Ben Bernanke (Chair, Federal Reserve System) 
• Timothy Geithner (Secretary of the Treasury)
• J. Russell George (Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration)
• Robert Harris (Incoming Chair, AICPA)
• Karen Hawkins (Director, IRS Office of Professional Responsibility)
• Robert Herz (Chair, FASB)
• James Kroeker (Chief Accountant, SEC)
• Barry Melancon (President & CEO, AICPA)
• Nina Olson (National Taxpayer Advocate, IRS)
• Thomas Sadler (Chair, NASBA)
• Mary Schapiro (Chair, SEC)
• Douglas Shulman (Commissioner, IRS)
• David Tweedie (Chair, IASB)
• Edward Yingling (Chair, ABA)  

CEOs of Major Accounting Firms: 

• Timothy Flynn & John Veihmeyer (KPMG)
• Robert Moritz & Dennis Nally (PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
• Edward Nusbaum (Grant Thornton)
• James Quigley & Barry Salzberg (Deloitte)
• James Turley (Ernst & Young)

CEOs of Tax & Accounting Companies & Publishers:

• Jonathan Baron (Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting)
• Kevin Robert (Wolters Kluwer)
• Mike Sabbatis (CCH)
• Brad Smith (Intuit)
• Russ Smyth (H&R Block)

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