Knowledge
Vision
Experience


 

Executive Team

 



Carl Towe CPA, CMI
President


Twenty nine years of state and local auditing and consulting. Member of the AICPA tax section and the Ohio Society of CPA's and is a Certified Member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation.




Richard Johnson
Executive Vice President


Thirty years former Assistant Manager at Dayton field office. Joe brings to Towe and Associates, over thirty years of experience in State and Local taxes including Motor Fuel Tax.




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.


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


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 531.


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.


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.

 


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.

 


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.



 


Client Service Specialist

 

 


Tim Hagedorn
Director of Client Services


BS in Business Administration from Indiana University, concentrating in Marketing. Tim has brought valuable experience received from a nineteen year career as Manager for JC Penney. He has been a member of our sales and marketing team for the past eight years.

 




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