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Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Kansas City, Missouri

Property taxes, sales and use taxes, telecom and regulatory fees and filings, franchise fees, gross receipts taxes and occupation taxes. Accounting for fixed assets and depreciation. State and Federal regulatory reporting responsibilities. Unite Private Networks provides high-bandwidth, fiber-based communications networks and services to schools, governments, carriers, data centers, hospitals, and enterprise business customers across a 22 state service area. Service offerings include dark fiber, private line, optical ethernet, internet access, data center services, and other customized solutions. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri we have been providing customer focused communications solutions since 1998.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Responsible for the management of all property tax compliance to ensure that such taxes are minimized and that the laws of each jurisdiction are being complied with in a timely and proper manner. • Direct property tax team of four in accumulating all information necessary for property tax compliance reporting and audit defense. • Identify property tax savings ideas and direct implementation.• Direct, research, review and sign all prepared property tax returns & payments to ensure proper determination and that property tax costs are legally minimized.• Direct and review financial reporting of property tax liabilities, including monthly, quarterly, and year-end general ledger accounting.• Work with state and local tax examination agents and other government officials during property tax audit process. • Develop and defend company property tax positions. • Develop property tax settlement or protest positions.• Manage consultants in pursuing property tax value added projects.• Identify and pursue property tax exemptions or incentives offered by governmental agencies.• Develop and manage all property valuations. • Review and approve all valuation notices and specified bill payments.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Managed the property tax planning and compliance process for multi-state regulated utility company.• Prepared state and local utility property tax filings for Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa and Oklahoma.• Negotiation and analysis of unitary and local value for the states listed above. • Prepared property tax accounting entries, budgeting models, and account analysis. • Managed property tax litigation for cases in Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Illinois.• Achieved appeal saving/cost avoided for tax years 2001-2004 of $7 million dollars.• Work closely with regulatory accounting, asset accounting, financial accounting, and GIS departments.

Kansas City, Missouri

Audited companies for sales and use tax compliance.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting

Associates Of Science, Engineering