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Our Qualifications
Our experience has made The Sales Tax Professionals successful and unique from other companies. Our skills were honed while being employed at the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance Department. Through our extensive classroom and on the job training program, that knowledge has been transferred to our extremely knowledgeable and helpful staff. This classroom training program is now available to the public in several cities throughout the year.
Making Sales Tax Less Complicated
The Sales Tax Professionals also offers an outstanding resource for manufacturers which assists accounts payable personnel to make the up-to-date and correct sales tax decisions in this ever changing and complicated world of New York State sales tax.
About our handbook
The continuously updated New York Sales & Use Tax Handbook for Manufacturers is produced and updated by The Sales Tax Professionals
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The visionaries
Scott Sliker
Scott Sliker is the Founder and CEO of The Sales Tax Professionals. Scott brings over 20 years experience from the New York State sales tax department. For more than 15 years Scott worked as a sales tax field auditor. He received his Masters degree in business administration from Saint Bonaventure University. During his career in sales tax audit, he specialized in coordinating and performing audits on location for a variety of Fortune 100 companies headquarters around the United States including New York, New Jersey, Florida, Texas, California, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, South Carolina, and others. Scott was involved with managed compliance style audits, statistical sample audits, block sample audits, as well as detailed audits, while representing the tax department and assisting to guide companies through the audit process.
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Scott has vast experience auditing in a wide array of industries including telecommunications automotive, advertising, and construction, His cases in the Manufacturing Realm include pharmaceuticals, plastics, steel, glass making, salt and stone mining to name a few. Scott concluded his tenure with the New York State Tax Department as a Field Audit Specialist.
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Scott formed his own consulting business in 2005 to offer his unique service. The Sales Tax Professionals are a company dedicated to providing companies with the most innovative approaches to sales tax. The Sales Tax Professionals has partnered with other sales tax and CPA professionals for many other states. Above all, the sales tax professionals’ integrity, honesty, and depth of knowledge of the New York state sales tax regulations and laws offer clients a rare opportunity to benefit from sales tax compliance delivered by true professionals. The Sales Tax Professionals also offers an outstanding resource for manufacturers which assist accounts payable personnel to make the up-to-date and correct sales tax decisions in this complicated world of New York State sales tax. The continuously updated New York sales and use tax handbook for manufacturers has now been made available online as a subscription service.
Rachel Sliker
Rachel Sliker is Senior Sales Tax Consultant; Rachel began with The Sales Tax Professionals in 2005 after receiving her Master’s degree. After extensive audit training in a wide variety of industries, including advertising ,printing, construction, and many manufacturing facilities, Rachel is able to handle even the toughest cases. Rachel is a valuable resource to prepare your electrical study to determine the proper percentage of sales tax to be remitted. Rachel has been assisting her clients to determine overpayment, underpayments and to educate them on the up-to-date rules and regulations in the ever-changing, complicated world of sales and use tax. Many companies have benefited from her experience and expertise.
Charles Benz
Charles Benz retired from the New York State Sales Tax Department after 32 years of service. During that time he worked as an Auditor, Audit Supervisor, and Section Head. Charlie was instrumental in the training of new auditors statewide and involved in the decision-making process of the major audits in the Rochester District office.
