AICPA honors service and professional contributions in tax

Two leading tax professionals were honored as distinguished award winners Tuesday at the 2025 AICPA National Tax Conference in Washington, D.C.

Arthur Auerbach, CPA, CGMA, received the Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award, the highest honor given in the tax area, and Cory Perry, CPA, was presented the Jonathan Horn Distinguished Service Award.

Auerbach, who has given 23 years of volunteer service to the AICPA, according to a news release, served as vice chair of the AICPA’s Tax Practice and Procedures Committee last year and as a member of the State and Local Tax Deduction Pass-Through Entity Tax Task Force. Now an independent tax consultant in Atlanta, he has written articles for the Journal of Accountancy and The Tax Adviser.

Perry, the chair of the AICPA’s Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Task Force, provided input on eight comment letter submissions and six international tax resources throughout the past committee year. He is a partner in Grant Thornton’s National Tax Office, focusing on international tax and consulting.

The Arthur J. Dixon Award recognizes a CPA who demonstrates professionalism in the spirit of Dixon, who was a leader in the profession, serving on various state society and AICPA committees, with a long record of service to the Tax Division. The Jonathan Horn Tax Division Distinguished Service Award recognizes outstanding current contributions to the Tax Division. Horn was a former Tax Division volunteer, AICPA staff member, and past recipient of the award.

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