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Vice President, Tax
Edison International
Vice President, Tax
Southern California Edison
Anthony L. Smith is vice president and director of Tax at Edison International and its utility subsidiary, Southern California Edison. He joined Edison in 1970 and assumed his current role on March 1, 1999.
Smith began his Edison career as a management trainee and held a number of supervisory and management positions before being elected director of taxes and assistant controller in 1988. As the vice president and director of Tax, Smith is responsible for all tax matters of Edison International and its subsidiary companies, including regulatory activities, federal and state tax legislative functions and representations before various federal and state taxing authorities.
Throughout his Edison career, Smith has been active in professional organizations, including the California Assessor's Association, the Tax Executives Institute and the International Tax Institute. He is a former chair of the California Taxpayers' Association and a member and former chair of the Taxation Committee and the Tax Analysis and Research Subcommittee of Edison Electric Institute, the electric utility industry's primary trade association.
Smith graduated with honors from Whittier College, where he received the Wall Street Journal Outstanding Business Student award. He earned his Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) and Master of Business Taxation (M.B.T.) degrees from the University of Southern California. He also completed the Public Utility Executive Program at the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business and the Executive Finance Program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Last reviewed: July 2006
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