Troy Lewis

Troy K. Lewis (CPA, CGMA, MAcc, Brigham Young University, 1995) is an associate teaching professor in and Associate Director of the School of Accountancy at Brigham Young UniversityMarriott School of Business. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in introductory taxation, property transactions, pass-through entity taxation, advanced individual taxation, and accounting for income taxes. He is the past chair of the Tax Executive Committee of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) in Washington, D.C., as well as the president of the Utah Association of CPAs (UACPA). He has testified six times before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and the House Committee on Small Business. Prior to joining the faculty at BYU, he was a tax manager at Arthur Andersen and KPMG in Salt Lake City, Utah. In addition, he was employed for over a decade as the CERMO and Tax Director of Heritage Bank in St. George, Utah. He is the recipient of the AICPA Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award and the Tax Section Distinguished Service Award, the BYU Marriott Ethics Teaching Award, and the UACPA Distinguished Service Award. Troy researches and publishes in professional tax journals in the areas of individual and pass-through taxation, qualified business income deduction, and property transactions as well as professional tax practice standards. His work has been published in journals such as Practical Tax Strategies, Journal of Accountancy, Issues in Accounting Education, and The Tax Adviser.