We shared some tax industry world records with Tribune readers last month, and while work-related feats are impressive, at the end of the day they’re still work. Now that April 15 is only a couple of weeks away, we are looking ahead to a world record attempt you can take part in before your vacation plans are in full swing.
On April 19, Visit Newport Beach and the Atomic Ballroom will attempt to host the world’s largest swing dance lesson.1 Attendees can learn the Balboa Swing, a dance created in Newport Beach during the Big Band era.
The world record attempt is technically part of Newport Beach’s 120 Years of Welcome,2 but if you’re actually there to celebrate the end of another successful tax season, who’s to judge? Certainly not us, and we promise not to tell the Guiness World Records officials who will be on site to certify the record attempt.
Tax-related triumphs
Last month we also asked Tribune readers to share any career experiences that are worthy of the record books.
We received a response from a CPA who plans to retire next year, after working 50 years in the industry. He started his career just two years after Spidell was founded in 1975.
In the words of Michael S. from Sunnyvale, California:
“I started my career with the IRS, in August 1977, as an office auditor under the old work-study program. I left the IRS in August 1980 and entered the world of public accounting. I have never looked back.
In all of that time, I have taught in the undergraduate accounting program at CSU Los Angeles, been a guest lecturer at what was then Hayward State (now CSU East Bay), earned my Master of Science in Taxation from Golden Gate University, and managed and moderated programs for CalCPA. Not to mention raising two great kids … not an accountant between them!
It’s been a great ride!”
