Kevin Watson
Indirect Tax Leader
Aprio Advisory Group, LLC
Who I work with
I collaborate with companies worldwide to establish their US state and local compliance operations or simplify and improve the accuracy of their existing state compliance operations.
My specialty
I help companies remain compliant with their US state and local obligations in the areas of:
- Sales tax returns outsourcing
- Sales tax decision software selection, implementation, and configuration
- Sales tax permit registrations
- Sales tax overpayment review services
- Voluntary Disclosure Agreements (VDAs)
- Payroll tax registrations
- Secretary of state registrations
- Registered agent services
- Annual secretary of state filings
- Personal property tax services
- Unclaimed property services
Results I have delivered
A few of the services I have provided for clients:
- Texas sales tax audit defense project that resulted in $3.2 million dollar refund
- Georgia data center sales tax refund of $1.7 million dollars
- Sales tax software implementations for Avalara, CereTax, and Vertex
- Nationwide sales tax registrations for online merchant
- Tens of millions of dollars saved in sales tax and penalties by limiting lookbacks via Voluntary Disclosure Agreements (VDAs)
Affiliations
I earned my bachelor’s in accounting and information management from the University of Tennessee. I hold a Sales Tax – CMI from the Institute of Professionals in Taxation (IPT), and Vertex® Indirect Tax O Series, 7.x certification.