Provide clarity around SALT and minimize your SALT tax exposure
A continually changing state tax landscape makes it tough to stay informed and effectively plan for the future. You need a tax advisor who can guide you and partner with you to reach your goals — whether that’s understanding compliance requirements or avoiding an overpayment of tax.
Why Wipfli?
Wipfli’s state and local tax advisors help you stay up to speed with SALT laws and clarify the increasingly complex statutes. From state and local tax consulting to compliance assistance, we implement and manage solutions to create competitive advantages, mitigate your SALT tax exposure and minimize tax.
How we help
All states that have a sales tax have implemented economic nexus laws, and state regulators are aggressive in their efforts to audit filers and root out non-filers.
By creating solutions that align with your business objectives, Wipfli helps you identify the possible impact of your tax obligations, mitigate your risk and liabilities and provide you with a comprehensive strategy to get your company compliant. We assist with everything from nexus studies, voluntary disclosure agreements, utility exemption studies, taxability determinations and compliance reporting to sales and use tax audit defense, refund overpayment reviews and jurisdictional tax registrations.
Wipfli’s state income and franchise tax advisors deliver the proactive guidance you need to effectively manage risk and satisfy your long-term business objectives.
With deep experience, the Wipfli team provides assistance across a broad range of personal income tax, business income tax, franchise tax and gross receipts tax topics — including nexus studies, voluntary disclosure agreements, apportionment issues, pass-through entity tax elections, state residency, due diligence consulting, corporate income tax combined/consolidated filing issues, and audit support and defense.
Navigating tax rules and filing requirements across multiple state and local taxing jurisdictions can be overwhelming.
Wipfli’s property tax professionals have developed a comprehensive process to help you manage your tax obligation, minimize your tax liability with common-sense reporting, and leverage statutory exemptions. From personal property tax compliance to reviewing where you have filing obligations, we deliver a custom solution for your business that helps relieve the burden on your internal resources.
Unclaimed property is a growing area of financial concern for companies of all sizes and in all industries. Many state administrators have increased enforcement efforts for compliance with their unclaimed property laws and regulations.
Wipfli professionals can help you identify the potential impact of unclaimed property, mitigate risk and remediate unclaimed property liabilities. With proactive planning, our tax advisors help you create a seamless strategy to become compliant. We also provide training and support to company personnel, representation throughout audits and VDAs, and unclaimed property reporting.
Our team
Craig A. Cookle, CPA
With over 35 years of experience, Craig serves as the leader of Wipfli's State and Local Tax service. Prior to joining Wipfli in 2005, Craig was the director of the Wisconsin sales and use tax practice of a national accounting firm. Prior to that, he was a field auditor with the Wisconsin Department of Revenue. This knowledge and experience enable him to consistently provide value to his clients in terms of state and local tax savings and efficient resolution of state audits.
Jessica L. Macklin, CPA
Jessica is a partner in Wipfli’s tax department, providing tax planning and preparation services for corporations, partnerships, farmers, and individuals. She specializes in state and local taxation and helps clients navigate the tax laws of the state and local jurisdictions in which they operate.
Daniel N. Kidney, CPA, JD
Dan Kidney is a director in Wipfli’s state and local tax (SALT) practice and has over 20 years of experience dedicated to SALT matters. He has served both Fortune 100 multinational and small businesses and has deep knowledge across a broad range of SALT topics. While Dan has a passion for writing and speaking about cutting-edge SALT concepts, he especially enjoys explaining those concepts in plain language to businesses and their owners to help them solve problems and bring them value.
Liz Avila
Liz Avila is a manager within the state and local tax group and has 20 years of experience specializing in unclaimed property. Her proficiency spans compliance and voluntary disclosure agreements (VDA), enriching the unclaimed property segment of the SALT team with invaluable insights. Committed to achieving business objectives, she diligently assists clients in achieving compliance with state regulations.
Austin DeMoss, CMI
Austin DeMoss is a member of Wipfli LLP’s state and local tax group and a firmwide resource in assisting with and resolving clients’ multistate tax issues. Austin is committed to providing outstanding customer service and helping his clients to understand the complex world of sales and use tax.
Client success story
Discover how our state and local tax advisors helped a client achieve $275,000 in tax savings.
