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John Jason Brucato

Title: Director, Tax Services
Industry: Insurance/General Corporate Taxation
Type of Organization: Public Accounting/Business Advisory Firm
Major Product/Service: Business and transaction advisory services, consulting, accounting, compensation and benefits and tax work
Expertise: Mr. Brucato is a Director of Services with SMART, based in the firm's Hartford office. He has more than 14 years experience in public accounting and Big Four experience, primarily with the Federal and State planning and compliance of large consolidated multinational companies in a variety of industries. Mr. Brucato has extensive experience dealing with consolidated tax issues, inbound/outbound companies and transactions, mergers and acquisitions, FAS 109 and SSAP 10 tax reporting, tax 404 compliance, FIN 48 reporting and disclosures, federal and state consolidated tax return compliance and co-sourcing, state taxes and audit.
Geographic Area of Distribution: International
Affiliations: A.I.C.P.A.; P.I.C.P.A.; C.S.C.P.A.
University/Degree: B.S., Accounting, Villanova University, 1994
Born: May 27, 1972
Hobbies/Sports: Baseball
Spouse: Kelly Norris Brucato
Married: September 27, 2003
Children: John Andrew, Jason Robert
Work History: Prior to joining SMART, Mr. Brucato was a Tax Senior Manager at Deloitte & Touche in the Lead Tax Services practice. He spent considerable time assisting large, multinational, consolidated taxpayers with tax planning, tax compliance, tax provisions and Sarbanes Oxley 404 tax controls. Prior to working with Deloitte, he was a Tax Manager at General Electric Capital Corporations' Commercial Equipment Finance business unit and served as a Tax Senior Manager with KPMG, LLP. He began his career at Arthur Andersen, holding a variety of tax positions with increasing responsibility, starting as a Tax Staff Accounting and culminating in the Tax Manager role.