Benzene's XAS, also studied in Refs. 87 and 12, comprises a dominant peak at 285.2 eV arising from the XA g → c2B 1u transition. Smaller features including the ones at 287.0 eV and 289.0 eV are also present; the former originating from degenerate XA g → c1B 2u and XA g → c2B 3u transitions and the latter originating from degenerate XA g → c9B 2u and XA g → c12B 3u transitions. We note that the peak positions do not completely overlap between theory and experiment for benzene. Benzene is centrosymmetric and XAS and X2PA are complementary to each other. Whereas the dominant X2PA peak for both CVS-0 and CVS-uS approaches originates from the same XA g → c2A g transition at 287.1 eV, the shapes of the two spectra are slightly different for the smaller features. Amongst the smaller features for CVS-uS, the peak at 289.0 eV arising from the XA g → c12A g transition is the most dominant. The complementary XAS and X2PA modeling augmented by the corresponding orbital analysis can, in principle, provide rich information on the electronic structure of this highly symmetric molecule.