Tonya Leonard Email & Phone Number

Irving, Tx, Us

• Reviewed and categorized land, buildings, office equipment, vehicles, yard equipment, and machinery assets for approximately 570 locations making property tax reporting ready.• Worked with outside tax consultants on issues or requests, including, trial balances, fixed asset schedules, accrual and prepaid schedules, audit support, schedule request for preparation of return and year end provision. • Recorded, reconciled, and reported companies’ fixed assets for county required personal property, including, additions, disposals, transfers and monthly depreciation / amortization. • Managed and informed BFS indirect tax director of performance, organization, negotiation, and settlement of all state and local sales / use tax audits with various taxing authorities. • Audited and reported findings provided periodically throughout audit period by third party contracted audit team and by jurisdictional assigned audit representative. • Oversaw and assisted in preparation of appropriate general ledger entries related to audits for company's monthly, quarterly and fiscal period closings, year-end. • Recorded, estimates of potential outstanding liabilities to financials. • Determined impact of changes which may create budget constraints or efficiencies. • Informed management of issues or concerns which affected budgets due to accurate taxing of sales.• Ran reports as needed for tax obligations out of tax engine Walters Kluwer CCH software.

• Oversaw management of all state and local sales / use tax audits and appeals.• Managed performance, organization, negotiation, and settlement of all state and local sales / use tax audits with various taxing authorities. • Minimized state and local sales / use tax liability through informed application of tax laws and regulations permitting alternative treatment of taxable items. • Assisted in management of sales / use and business taxes for all operating areas, including designing and implementing systems to ensure proper collection and remittance. • Served as tax department liaison to other company departments on new projects and initiatives that required tax planning. • Collaborated mergers and acquisition team when new facilities were being purchased. • Prepared appropriate general ledger entries related to audits for company's monthly, quarterly and fiscal period closings, year-end.• Made recommendations to tax director regarding personnel actions, including hiring, termination, layoff, promotion, and salary increases.

• Maintained and filed various corporate federal returns throughout tax year.• Oversaw three tax book depreciation schedules, Federal, AMT and State Books. • Reviewed assets purchased and recorded for generally accepted accounting principles financials. • Converted assets into deprecations schedules to meet federal and state requirement for reporting.