Troy Lewis is a tax expert with substantial experience in tax standards, tax accounting, partnership taxation issues, commercial disputes, and economic damages. In addition to being an award-winning tax professor at BYU, he leads an active tax and accounting firm. He has testified before Congress multiple times and has been retained numerous times as an expert witness. Professor Lewis is a certified public accountant (CPA) and a chartered global management accountant (CGMA).
At BYU’s Marriott School of Business, Professor Lewis teaches courses on accounting and taxation, including on topics related to partnership taxation, property and investment transactions, high-wealth individual taxation, and corporate operations. He has earned multiple awards for outstanding teaching, service, and ethics. In 2021, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) recognized Professor Lewis with the Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award, the accounting profession’s highest honor in the field of taxes.
Professor Lewis publishes articles in academic and professional journals, including the Journal of Accountancy, The Tax Adviser, and Issues in Accounting Education. He has also contributed to noted reference books, including Tax Research Techniques (11th edition) and multiple editions of McGraw Hill’s Taxation of Individuals and Business Entities.
As a past chair of the AICPA‘s Tax Executive Committee, Professor Lewis has testified six times before the United States Senate Finance Committee and the United States House Committee on Small Business. His testimony in these settings focused on business income deductions, entrepreneurship, business growth, and taxation compliance, among other topics. For over two decades, Professor Lewis has served in key leadership positions at the AICPA and the Utah Association of CPAs (UACPA), including as UACPA President.
Professor Lewis is the owner and managing member of Lewis & Associates CPAs, which specializes in the preparation of financial statements and tax returns. He previously served as Chief Enterprise Risk Management Officer of a community bank in St. George, Utah. Previously, he spent seven years at Arthur Andersen.
Professor Lewis has submitted multiple expert reports and testified in depositions, in arbitrations, and at trial in matters involving tax standards, technical taxation issues, and the calculation of tax damages.