Robert Bennington and Cort Christie, top officials of the National
Audit Defense Network, an
organization that takes on the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of
businesses and individuals, have been honored as Entrepreneurs of the
Year for their “emerging business.”
Each year, the Top Ten Accounting Firm of Ernst & Young sponsors this
award for business leadership to entrepreneurs whose success exemplifies
their sustained capacity for creativity and innovation, development and
implementation of major products and/or services, and ability to
overcome obstacles along the way. An independent panel of judges looks
at the degree of difficulty in launching and building the company, the
financial risk involved, the financial stability of the company and the
strength of key management.
In addition, the entrepreneurial candidates are evaluated on the
culture the nominees have created in the work environment in terms of
how employees are respected, recognized and rewarded; the nominees’
deeply rooted principles, including integrity, trust and the empowerment
of people; and also the external socially responsible activities in
which the nominees have used their skills and creativity to help the
community at large.
The originality of the service provided by National Audit Defense
Network was also a factor considered, according to the awards criteria.
NADN provides prepaid audit defense for members who receive an audit
notice from any federal, state or local taxing authority. The concept
of prepaid audit defense was initiated in the late 1970s by a group of
tip workers who pooled their resources and hired an accountant, just in
case they were audited. It was Bennington and Christie, however, who
envisioned the possibilities of providing a service that would offer
audit protection to all American taxpayers from every occupation.
NADN began in 1996 with Bennington, Christie and a secretary. Today,
their Las Vegas headquarters houses a staff exceeding 100, and their
network includes former IRS agents, CPAs, tax attorneys and enrolled
agents in 350 cities around the country. It has enrolled over 32,000
members in the more than three years the company has been fighting on
behalf of American taxpayers.
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