Thomas Petit

Area Manager for Gulf Coast, Internal Revenue Service

Tom is the manager of the Employee Plans Examination Gulf Coast Area. Tom began his IRS career with the Employee Plans section of EP/EO in Dallas in January, 1987. He worked both determinations and examinations before being selected as a review agent in Technical Review Staff in 1989. He became an EP Group Manager in 1991. In addition to managing examination and determination groups, he served as Chief, Planning and Special Projects (PSP), and on the staff of the EP/EO Division Chief during the 1995 reorganization of the Midstates Region.

Tom served on two TEGE Modernization teams when EP/EO was reorganized into TE/GE.

Tom became the manager of the EP examination group in Austin in 1996, and he became the manager of the Gulf Coast Employee Plans Team Audit (EPTA) group in October, 2001. He was selected as Gulf Coast Area Manager in 2011.

Tom has had several long-term assignments as Acting Director, Employee Plans Examinations.

Tom has a BA degree from Gannon University in Erie, PA, and masters in business from The University of Texas at Austin. Tom is married and has two children.


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