Thomas Benedetti

Executive summary

Tom is a Managing Director in the Tax Reporting & Advisory Services (TR&A) Group in the Southeast Region, working out of the firm’s Charlotte, NC office. Tom is responsible for delivering quality tax compliance, provision and planning services to both public and private companies in the region and nationally.

Prior to joining Grant Thornton in 2019, Tom spent about 20 years at PwC and has other public accounting experience. Additionally, Tom was a Vice-President of Tax at a large multi-national public company in New Jersey and he has other private industry experience. Tom has extensive knowledge of complex ASC 740, “Accounting for Income Tax” matters and various federal Subchapter C and consolidated group regulation and return matters. Additionally, he has recently worked with many of the provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act in detail, including the implications of changes in the provisions of Subchapter N, “Taxes Based on Income from Sources Within or Without the United States”, for U.S. based multi-national entities.

Tom also has extensive teaching experience, having authored and taught many courses in the areas of federal taxation and income tax accounting, in his prior public accounting experience.

Tom has a wide-range of industry experience having served clients in the financial, manufacturing, retail and consumer products, technology and media, entertainment and communications sectors, along with private industry experience in the consumer products and financial sectors.

 

Professional qualifications and memberships

• Certified Public Accountant, North Carolina and New Jersey
• Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Member, Tax Executives Institute

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Accounting, The College of New Jersey, 1985