Richard Gross, CPA

Partner, Tax

Phone: 412.281.8771 x233
Fax: 412.281.7001

Richard has spent the majority of his 46-year career serving the auditing, tax, and consulting needs of privately held organizations and their owners. He has significant experience handling accounting, tax planning, and tax compliance issues with all types of entities, from one-person operations to large, multi-state corporations.

Richard is experienced in working with manufacturing companies and their owners. He has helped these companies realize thousands of dollars in tax savings by proper tax planning and timely elections. Over the years, he has appealed many Internal Revenue Service and state decisions for his clients, in most cases saving them substantial taxes and penalties. In addition, Richard has focused on individual tax strategies, including the creation of trusts, estate and gift planning, and family limited partnerships. Richard has worked with public companies for the past 35 years, and has an in-depth understanding of their unique tax and accounting needs. He proactively works with the Securities & Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to ensure clients remain in compliance with current regulatory standards.

Prior to joining Louis Plung in 1975, Richard was employed by four different CPA firms in the Pittsburgh area.

• Recovery Matters Group Volunteer, Northway Christian Community
• Victory Group Volunteer, Victory Family Church
• Member, St. John Neumann Church, Franklin Park
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Lifetime Member
• Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA), Lifetime Member

Past officer of many community groups and organizations

• B.S., Accounting, Duquesne University

• Partner-in-charge of the audit and tax work for a public manufacturing company, which includes preparing and filing the company's year-end 10K form and quarterly 10Q forms.
• Manage the audit and tax work for a private manufacturing company with business interests in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to handling the audit and tax work for the client, also oversee individual tax planning and preparation for the company's officers.
• Partner-in-charge of the audit and tax work for a private steel manufacturing company. Client engagement includes financial statement audit, federal and multi-state tax returns, and individual tax planning for the company's officers.
• Perform review of financial statements and prepare federal, multi-state, and individual tax returns for a private company engaged in the wholesale distribution and retail sale of gasoline, kerosene, tires, diesel fuel, and heating oil.
• Manage the audit and tax work for a private stainless steel manufacturing company, as well as handle the individual tax planning and preparation of the company's officers.
• Partner-in-charge of the tax planning and preparation for trusts with more than $55 million in total assets, as well as perform tax work for all trust beneficiaries who are U.S. citizens.