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A resident of Cos Cob, Connecticut, Michael J. Smeriglio III has more than 30 years of experience as a licensed certified public accountant (CPA). Michael J. Smeriglio III is also a board member of the Greenwich Old Timers Athletic Association in Connecticut.

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Individuals, corporations, and association-sponsored events provide funds for the Greenwich Old Timers Athletic Association Scholarship Program. In 2016, the association raised enough money to award $29,500 in needs-based scholarships.

The association has also provided one-year scholarships to students, raising funds through the Joseph Piro Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament. The one-year scholarships help graduating seniors complete their studies and receive degrees.

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Michael John Smeriglio is an experienced Certified Public Accountant, who owns the Michael J. Smeriglio III, CPA, accounting firm in Greenwich, Connecticut. Outside of his profession, Michael J. Smeriglio is an enthusiastic fan of NASCAR and owns a modified race team that has won three championships.

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Since 1986, Michael J. Smeriglio has owned and operated a private accountancy practice in Cos Cob, Connecticut. Michael J. Smeriglio draws on extensive experience in helping clients understand their taxes.

When an individual fails to pay due tax to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), that entity may file a tax lien against the debtor's property. This can only occur after the government has assessed the amount owed and sent a bill with a specified due date. If the taxpayer does not remit the total amount before the due date, the IRS can officially file a Notice of Federal Tax Lien.

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A tax lien automatically disappears after the debt has passed the specified collection statute. It may also be eligible for release if the IRS did not follow proper procedures for issuing the lien, provided that the taxpayer can secure evidence to that end.

As a certified public accountant, Michael J. Smeriglio guides individuals and families.

When reorganizing credit card debt, many debtors begin by transferring debt from an account with a high-interest rate to an account with a lower rate. Asking the account issuer whether the low-interest rate will last for the duration of the debt is important because some special promotions grant low-interest rates on transfers for only a short time and then raise the rate. If the long-term interest rate is favorable, it may save the debtor a significant amount.

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A resident of Cos Cob, Connecticut, Michael J. Smeriglio III has more than 30 years of experience as a licensed certified public accountant (CPA). Michael J. Smeriglio III is also a board member of the Greenwich Old Timers Athletic Association in Connecticut.

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CHAMPION CAR OWNER: Mike Smeriglio III | NASCAR Home Tracks

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Back-To-Back Titles For Affable Team Owner

By Jason Cunningham, NASCAR
December 8, 2015 - 8:50pm

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - After multiple near misses, Mike Smeriglio III gathered his first title as car owner in 2014, his ninth season fielding an entry for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. It felt so good, he couldn't let it go.

"You don't really know what it's like to be a champion until you come down to Charlotte and celebrate and see your car in the NASCAR Hall of Fame with the championship trophy," Smeriglio said. "That's unbelievable. You can't anticipate that until it actually happens, and when it does, it's almost a double-edged sword. You got here, but now you want to continue to be here.

"Now that I've felt that, I don't want to lose that feeling."

Not only did his No. 2 Dunleavy's Truck & Trailer Repair Chevrolet team keep the good times going, they upped the ante. The 2014 title came by way of one checkered flag. Driver Doug Coby piloted the car to seven during the defense.

"This year was more rewarding because we were more of a dominant car, and we made the right decisions to make us a better team," Smeriglio said.

The decisions he mentions were significant. Smeriglio, of Greenwich, Connecticut, pushed for a change to spec engines while crew chief Phil Moran led the switch to LFR Chassis. Coby backed both decisions, and a new course was set for the title defense.

The new combination was strong right out of the gate with a dominant win in the opener at Thompson, and success was sustained. A couple of racing incidents set the team back in its attempt to retain the title, however, and it took wins in each of the last three events on the schedule to retain the crown.

It was an amazing accomplishment that Smeriglio attributes to Moran's leadership and Coby's skills from the cockpit.

"It really starts with the crew chief," Smeriglio said. "You have to be prepared and you have to be organized, and that's what Phil does each and every day. With Doug's ability as a wheelman and as a systematic driver, the two of them put themselves in a position to really be a dominant team for those last three races."

So can Smeriglio and his No. 2 team continue to keep the good times rolling?

"Every season, every race, every track is always going to be different," Smeriglio said. "Different scenarios always play out where someone can get on a hot streak or somebody finds something.

"Do I like where we are? Absolutely. Do we need to make any changes? No. The offseason will dictate what happens next."

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Back-To-Back Titles For Affable Team Owner By Jason Cunningham, NASCARDecember 8, 2015 - 8:50pm DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - After multiple near misses, Mike Smeriglio III gathered his first title as car owner in 2014, his ninth season fielding an entry for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour.

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Long considered one of the elite crew chiefs on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, the case for that exclusive status was significantly bolstered in 2016 when Phil Moran added a fourth tour title to his résumé.

Originally from Preston, Connecticut, Moran got his start in NASCAR modified racing in 1985 with car owner Art Barry and driver Greg Sacks. He's attained varied experience along the way, including his first Whelen Modified Tour title in 2003 with driver Todd Szegedy and car owner Don Barker.

Barker sold his team to Michael Smeriglio III after the 2005 season and Moran went to work for Chassis Dynamics before eventually returning to the tour to work with Szegedy and Smeriglio and manage the team's shop in Newtown, Connecticut.

In 2014, Moran was able to lead this team to its first Whelen Modified Tour title with Doug Coby behind the wheel. In 2015 he successfully defended the Championship and in 2016 he pulled a "three-peat" helping Doug Coby to become only the fifth driver in NASCAR Modifieds history to win four or more championships.

"Doug is very meticulous, he thinks out every race," Moran said. "We'll talk about strategy before the race starts and nine times out of 10 we're on the same page. That's a big thing for us to be on the same page. Usually we're right on the money right out of the box as far as what we're going to do for a race."

Being on that same page has showed in their results.

"The chemistry and communications we have on this team are two key ingredients to our success." Moran said. In their four years together they have 11 wins, 11 poles, 26 top 5's and 33 top 10's.

"We finish consistently in the top five so that is of huge significance to a championship winning team."

With the championship-winning team remaining intact, Moran feels confident of their continued success.

"There are a lot of good teams out there; Ryan Preece is going to be tough with his new deal, Timmy Solomito and Justin Bonsignore are going to be tough, but we're going to be tough too," Moran said. "We know that we're going to be a team to be reckoned with right out of the truck."

Moran certainly isn't going to rest on the team's laurels though.

"You've got to keep on moving forward to be the best," Moran said. "We're just getting the best bullet in our gun that we can get."

Smeriglio entrusts Moran for all racing related decisions the team makes.

"My business is as an accountant and financial planner, and I don't have any sophisticated or technical knowledge as it pertains to race cars, so I give complete reign of the racing side of the operation to Phil, and I couldn't be more proud of what he has done for the No. 2 team," Smeriglio said. "He's been the best crew chief that I've ever had and hopefully we both retire together."

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Gets Long-Awaited First Tour Title

By Jason Cunningham, NASCAR
December 4, 2014 - 5:35pm

NASCAR is a passion-driven sport. Passsion from the competitors, from the team personnel, and especially from the fans. Few bring more passion than newly-minted NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champion car owner Mike Smeriglio III.

CHAMPION DRIVER: DOUG COBY | CHAMPION CREW CHIEF: PHIL MORAN

One of the best brand ambassadors in the Whelen Modified Tour garage, Smeriglio's effervescent demeanor and willingness to help out in any way he can buoys his team as well as the entire tour contingent. It's not uncommon for Smeriglio to loan a back-up car to a competing team that encountered issues and was in danger of not being able to participate in a race, or to give an opportunity for a younger driver to race a second team entry.

"The people in the garage, the officials, the track owners; it's my second family," Smeriglio said. "You treat those the way you want to be treated back. I've always been given a lot of respect in this series, and because of that it's my way of giving back."

The relationships he has forged on the Whelen Modified Tour are the effect, but Smeriglio's passion is the cause.

"It's a level of NASCAR that I always wanted to be a part of," Smeriglio said. "That goes back to my early days at Danbury. It's what my dad had a passion for and it was in my blood from a young age. I just love the sport. I just love the modifieds."

Smeriglio's first exposure to stock car racing came at the now defunct Danbury Racearena in his native Connecticut at the age of four. His father was involved with a couple of different teams there, and it was a standing Saturday night appointment for Smeriglio through his teens.

The experience left an indelible impression.

"That's where the love of the sport originated for me," Smeriglio said. "Outside of family and business, my next passion is NASCAR."

An accountant and financial planner, Smeriglio's entry point into NASCAR racing on the other side of the fence came in the late 1990s when he became the owner of Frank Wainwright's SK Modified team at another famed Connecticut oval, Stafford Motor Speedway. When Wainwright retired, Smeriglio co-owned the No. 47 Stafford SK with various drivers until an opportunity came along to go tour racing.

A resident of Greenwich, Connecticut, Smeriglio bought his first Whelen Modified Tour car from the No. 50 team that was closing up shop two years after a championship with driver Todd Szegedy. Smeriglio was able to attain Szegedy for his new No. 2 Mike Smeriglio III Racing team for their first season together in 2006.

Smeriglio finished as the championship runner-up twice with Szegedy, and had five other seasons in the top five of the final standings, but they were never able to break through for the title. After 10 wins together, the pairing parted ways after the 2013 season and Smeriglio went out and got Doug Coby, a driver just one year removed from his first championship.

For the financial planner Smeriglio, it was an investment that provided immediate returns: the long-awaited championship.

And Smeriglio's valuation of the asset he invested in?

"Doug Coby really is the complete package as a driver," Smeriglio said. "He's talented, smart, calculated, easy on the equipment, and he's always there at the end. He may not lead all of the laps, but when the checkered flag nears, he's always in the best position that he's been in for the entire race."

Coby may have been the final piece to Smeriglio's puzzle, but one piece already in place took great satisfaction in seeing the mission finally accomplished, the No. 2 team's veteran crew chief Phil Moran.

"To win the championship for him is great," Moran said. "He's finished second, third and fourth in the points before, so to see the joy in his face in the last race at Thompson was just incredible. It was really, really good to win it for him, and to win it for the guys that have been with Mike for a long time and have been close before."

Moran has great respect for his boss, who takes a hands-off approach when it comes to the technical aspects of the team, and serves in more of a coach and motivator.

"Working for him is incredible," Moran said. "He's the best kind of boss you could ever want mainly because he has the trust in me and the team to do what we need to do.

"He's very competitive. He wants to win practice, he wants to win time trials and he wants to win the race, but he's very upbeat all of the time. He never gets down."

Smeriglio's resolve has been tested through his journey to this first title though. He had the championship within reach in the 2011 finale, but a late-race accident ended the dream.

"That was the most difficult one to swallow, but you hear it often that you have to lose one to win one," Smeriglio said. "Well, I've lost two, so hopefully we'll win a second one to make up for it."

For a person as passionate and as driven as Smeriglio, there will certainly be some time to reflect on this year's accomplishments, but he's also more than ready to turn the page.

"I'm really looking forward to the banquet and celebrating with the guys, and as much as I am excited about what took place in 2014, I'm even more excited about the opportunity in 2015," Smeriglio said. "I think we've got a great package, and we're making the team even better moving forward."

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Gets Long-Awaited First Tour Title By Jason Cunningham, NASCARDecember 4, 2014 - 5:35pm NASCAR is a passion-driven sport. Passsion from the competitors, from the team personnel, and especially from the fans. Few bring more passion than newly-minted NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champion car owner Mike Smeriglio III.

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Michael Smeriglio CPA - Certified Public Accountant

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Michael Smeriglio CPA - Certified Public Accountant

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Michael Smeriglio CPA - Certified Public Accountant

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A CPA since 1985, Michael Smeriglio provides tax preparation services to individuals and businesses. Michael also owns a NASCAR winning team.