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With state and local tax experience dating to 1989, the principals and partners at State Tax Advisors have continued to be successful in providing excellent specialized state and local tax consulting services.

State Tax Advisors is comprised of a team of experienced state tax professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit. With our combined experience and achievements, we leverage our knowledge based to provide our clients with the specialization required to comply with complex state and local tax laws.

State Tax Advisors is a full-service state and local tax consulting and compliance firm that provides strategic knowledge and experience in:

  • Sales and use Tax
    • Taxability guides and training
    • Audit representation
    • Self managed / internal audits
    • Business process review
    • CPE training
    • Public policy and research studies
    • Nexus studies
    • Voluntary disclosures and amnesty agreements
    • Reverse audits (overpayment reviews)
    • Sales & Use Tax Return Preparation
    • Sales and Use Tax Registration Services
  • Income / Franchise Tax
    • Nexus studies
    • Voluntary disclosures and amnesty agreements
    • Audit representation
    • State Registration Services and Annual Reports
  • Property Tax
    • Valuation analysis and appeal
    • Asset scrub
    • Compliance
    • Litigation support

Riley G. Epps

Riley Epps, President of State Tax Advisors, has 20 years experience in State and Local Taxes including sales and use, motor fuels and excise, and income/franchise taxes. His extensive multi-state experience includes compliance review, taxability research, nexus determination, audit defense and support, voluntary disclosure negotiation and managed audits.

Riley Epps holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration and Accounting and an additional Bachelors Degree in Marketing, both from the University of Houston. Using this uncommon blend of technical skill and marketing acumen, mixed with his entrepreneurial spirit, Riley has enjoyed success with a Big Five Firm and as a small business owner.

Riley was employed by Deloitte and Touche, L.L.P. for six years and was instrumental in building the state and local tax practice. He left to establish R.G. Epps & Co., and built a thriving state and local tax firm. Next he successfully merged his company with a national property tax firm. The result was a full-service state and local tax consulting and software company. Having accepted a buyout offer from the national property tax firm and its investors, Riley formed State Tax Advisors in 2002.

State Tax Advisors is a full-service state and local tax consulting firm that provides strategic knowledge and experience in sales and use tax consulting, including audit representation and defense, and compliance outsourcing, including return preparation, nexus studies, voluntary disclosure agreements and registration services.

Riley is a native Houstonian who lives with his wife, Lisa and their two children, Caroline and Hunter, in Kingwood, Texas. At one time a professional ball player with the Texas Rangers, these days Riley is more likely to be found on the golf course.

Riley G. Epps
Founder & CEO
State Tax Advisors LP

281.358.1060 wk
713.854.6265 cell

Email: repps@statetaxadvisors.com

Website: www.statetaxadvisors.com

     
 
 

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