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:

• Sen. Max Baucus (Chair, Senate Finance Committee)
• Sen. Charles Grassley (Ranking Member, Senate Finance Committee)
• Rep. Charles Rangel (Chair, House Ways & Means Committee)

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:

• Samuel DiPiazza (PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
• Timothy Flynn (KPMG)
• Edward Nusbaum (Grant Thornton)
• 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)