SLIDE 1
Tuesday & Wednesday, January 28‐29, 2020
Hya Regency Columbus, Columbus, Ohio
Workshop P
CAT, Sales & Use and PTE Audits...Best Practices to Effectively Plan & Manage the Audit Process
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Biographical Information
Amy Thomas Laub, Director, Tax, Nationwide Insurance Company 1 W. Nationwide Blvd, Columbus, OH 43215 614-249-7070 thoma30@nationwide.com
Amy Thomas Laub works for Nationwide Insurance Company, which is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. As Tax Director, she is primarily responsible for state income tax and sales & use tax areas. Prior to joining Nationwide, she worked in the Tax departments for Tempur Sealy International, Inc., located in Lexington, Kentucky, and Federal Express, located in Memphis, Tennessee. Amy has experience with multiple areas of state taxation including compliance, audits, planning, policy and incentives & credits. Amy currently serves as Immediate Past Chair for the Council on State Taxation (“COST”). She is only the third woman to chair COST over the past 48 years. Amy is a member of the COST Board of Directors. She participates in numerous conferences and schools as a speaker and a facilitator. Amy is a licensed CPA and received her B.B.A. degree in accounting from the University of Cincinnati.
Chad G. Leon, Assistant Administrator, Audit Division Ohio Department of Taxation, PO Box 183014, Columbus, OH 43218 (614) 800-3967 Chad.Leon@tax.state.oh.us
Chad is an Assistant Administrator for the Audit Division of the Ohio Department of Taxation. He has over fifteen years of experience in Sales and Use tax. Chad began his career with the Ohio Department of Taxation in December, 2002 as a sales and use tax auditor in the Akron District Office. He was promoted to a Sales & Use tax audit manager in January, 2010 and held that position until he received his current position in July of 2015. Chad has audited exclusively in Sales and Use tax throughout his career and has experience in numerous industries including manufacturing, contracting, automobile dealerships, restaurants and trucking. Chad is a graduate of Malone University with a B.A. in Accounting and Business Administration.
John R. Trippier, CPA, Director (non-attorney professional), Zaino Hall & Farrin LLC 41 South High Street, Suite 3600, Columbus, OH 43215 jtrippier@zhftaxlaw.com 614-349-4815 Fax: 614-754-6368
John is Director of Multistate Tax and serves clients with more than 31 years of experience in government, public accounting/law firm and industry. He assists clients with evaluating current multistate tax positions to identify refund
- pportunities and to mitigate potential exposures. John also uses his previous Department of Taxation experience
to defend clients throughout the audit process, which helps to ensure the client pays the minimum due. John is a certified public accountant who served as the Administrator of the Ohio Department of Taxation’s Audit Division for over eight years beginning in 2003. At the Ohio Department of Taxation, John was responsible for developing and implementing audit policy for the sales, use and commercial activity taxes. He was the architect for the commercial activity tax audit process and the audit tools that are used by auditors and managers to research taxability issues. John also spent two years as an income/franchise tax and sales/use tax auditor in the Department’s Chicago office. John has worked over 10 years in public accounting as a state and local tax consultant for Coopers & Lybrand, KPMG Peat Marwick and RSM McGladrey, Inc. As a consultant, John assisted clients with multistate sales/use, income/franchise, personal/real property, intangible and unclaimed property tax audits and appeals. John also assisted clients with multistate refund reviews, corporate restructuring, compliance studies, nexus studies, voluntary disclosures and sales tax software implementations. John also worked 9 months for the law firm of McDonald Hopkins where he was director of Multistate Tax Services. John worked in industry as a state and local tax manager of a telecommunications company responsible for audits, appeals and state and local sales/use, personal/real property and income/franchise tax compliance. John is a frequent presenter on Ohio sales, use and commercial activity taxes for the Ohio Society of CPAs, Ohio Business Tax Conference and various other associations throughout Ohio. John is also a frequent presenter for the Council on State Taxation (COST).