Barry Wolf CPA, CMI
Vice President
With
over 25 years experience, Barry manages all sales/use tax and gross receipts compliance
issues, audits, and hearings for Towe & Associates. He assists clients in the use of
statistical sampling to efficiently manage their state tax audits, sales/use tax planning,
audit reductions, and overpayment recoveries. Prior to joining Towe and Associates, Barry
was a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
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Donald Carter
Senior Auditor
Don has over 35 years of state and
local tax experience. He develops tax strategies for direct pay and consumer's use tax
clients in the retail, manufacturing, construction, food service and hospitality industries.
Don assists companies in the use of statistical sampling to manage their sales and use tax
compliance efficiently and effectively. |
Consultants
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Jerry Sinkovich
Senior Tax Advisor
Former Ohio Central Audit Staff
Supervisor with over thirty years auditing and consulting experience in sales tax auditing
and compliance procedures and direct pay procedures for fortune 500 companies. Jerry
served on the panel committee that rewrote the Manufacturing Exemption in House Bill
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Kenneth Ruggles
Senior Tax Advisor
Ken brings thirty-seven years of public
utility tax knowledge to Towe and Associates. His specialties include: income franchise tax,
sales and use tax, pollution control exemptions and personal property taxes.
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Chris Sinkovich
Senior Tax Advisor
Chris has more than twenty years
experience in state and local taxation, including tax abatements and pollution control
certificates. Chris was supervisor of audit review for the Ohio Department of Taxation,
Sales/Use tax division where she served on the audit policy and procedure committee. She
spent the last thirteen years working in the manufacturing industry directing her sales/use
and personal property specialties in numerous states at audit management and appeal,
asset allocation, pollution control, tax abatements along with sales tax direct payment
procedures. Chris obtained her Masters of Taxation from the
University of
Akron. |
Dan Ritter
Senior Tax Advisor
Dan has worked in the area of Ohio
Sales/Use Tax for over 30 years. As an audit manager with the Ohio
Department of Taxation, Dan reviewed and assigned work to tax auditors.
He has been involved with a wide range of entities from small retailers to Fortune
500 companies. Dan is familiar with sampling techniques utilized by the
department from liquor markups to block and statistical sampling. He has
assisted with developing direct pay procedures and creating in-house training for the
department on performing construction contractor audits. He has also been
involved with vendor sales audits and is knowledgeable as to documentation needed to
support exempt sales and services.
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Larry Moore
Senior Tax Advisor
Thirty-three years
Kentucky sales and use tax
experience. Former Director of Field Operations and the Protest Resolution
Division. |
Ken Siegel
Senior Tax Advisor
Ken has more than thirty years
experience in all areas of sales and use tax including audits, refunds, and compliance. Ken
has assisted a wide variety of taxpayers including major manufacturers, retailers, service
providers and construction contractors. Ken has extensive experience in statistical audit
sampling in all major industries. |
Jessica Towe, CMI
Senior Tax Advisor
Nine years tax research, auditing,
audit defense and tax consulting experience. She has her AAB with a major in accounting
from
Edison
Community College in
Piqua,
Ohio. She has completed Sales and
Use
Tax
Schools I and II through the Institute
for Professionals in Taxation, as well as frequent attendance at numerous Sales Tax
Symposia and Conferences. |
Joseph
Towe
State Tax
Advisor
Seven years business management.
Two years experience in state and local taxation. Joseph has successfully completed the
Institute of
Professionals in Taxation Sales and
Use
Tax
Schools I and II. |
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Timothy Walsh
Senior Tax Advisor
Former Indiana Department of
Revenue Senior Auditor. Seventeen years experience in state and local tax, audit
representation, tax analysis and consulting. |
Larry Sims
Senior Tax Advisor
Former Indiana Department of
Revenue Senior Auditor. Fourteen years experience in state and local tax, audit
representation, tax analysis and consulting.
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Client Service Specialist
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