Resident Meets With Congressional Leaders

Garden City resident Andrew (Drew) Hult, CPA, recently returned from a meeting of the National Conference of CPA Practitioners held in Washington D.C. Participants met with members of both the House and Senate, including members of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee and representatives of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide recommendations to improve and clarify income tax reporting and collection issues.

Mr. Hult has been a CPA in public practice for over twenty years. In 1998, he left Owen Peterson, a regional accounting firm, to set up his own CPA practice, now based in Hempstead. Mr. Hult has served NCCPAP on the national and local level. For NCCPAP national, he is currently Executive Vice President and has served as treasurer and chaired the Council of Chapter Presidents and the ethics committee. For the Nassau/Suffolk chapter of NCCPAP, Mr. Hult has served as chapter president and chaired the marketing committee. In addition to his NCCPAP membership, Mr. Hult is a member of the AICPA and the New York State Society of CPAs. He is a 1965 graduate from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University, and has taken numerous graduate level courses in accounting from Adelphi University.

Mr. Hult is also an active participant in the Garden City community, where he and his wife Marilyn reside. In his church, he served as a trustee and chair of the board of finance and administration, and on the investment committee. At his tennis club, he was treasurer and president. He also served as president of the Garden City Student Aid and Scholarship Fund. The Hults have three children and four grandchildren.

Mr. Hult was one of four members who attended a separate meeting with the Director of the Internal Revenue Service's Public Liaison Office. The agenda for this meeting included the identification of systemic tax preparation and processing problems and the identification of possible solutions for them.