The State Tax Experts

Mitigating Financial RiskEnhancing State and Local Tax Compliance • Expanding Technology

About Us

GSE – The State Tax Experts provides multistate tax consulting services tailored to organizations that are continually evolving—whether you are maintaining compliance, developing new products, entering new markets, or refining your business operations. We believe it is crucial for a business to understand its state and local tax profile in order to make informed business decisions and minimize tax risk.

Whenever your company expands into new markets, introduces new products or services, or adjusts its business operations, it is essential to carefully evaluate your state and local tax obligations. Moreover, tax laws and regulations are constantly evolving to keep up with changes in the global economy, creating more complex tax requirements. As a result, finance leaders often face greater challenges in maintaining compliance.

At GSE, we are committed to addressing what matters most to you:

  • Staying compliant with complex tax laws across the states and localities where your business operates.

  • Fully understanding and utilizing tax credits and incentives, exemptions, and abatements, including opportunities for property tax value reductions.

  • Managing risk and identifying state and local tax planning opportunities.

Our experienced professionals collaborate with you to assess your tax situation, analyze your compliance processes, and evaluate missed or emerging opportunities. We serve a wide range of industries, including manufacturers, retailers, and regulated entities such as healthcare providers.

Our approach is to blend into your environment as an extension to the team and seamlessly guide and complete your initiatives from start to finish. We will navigate the complexities of state and local taxes, helping to position your business for growth and success by executing strategies to reduce business costs.

Tax Consulting

Project Management

Management Consulting

Small Business Financing and Capacity Building

Our Solutions

Enhance Tax Compliance to Control Cost

Keep businesses compliant with state and local tax laws and regulations and represent their interest during tax audits.

  • Provide tax compliance services, including fixed asset reviews.
  • Manage tax compliance projects, including M&A tax due diligence and integration.

Mitigate Financial Risk

Evaluate and identify appropriate savings on projects for bottom-line results.

  • Represent client’s interest during audits to reduce tax costs.
  • Address tax policy, advocacy, valuations and appeals, and dispute resolution issues to ensure clients pay only their fair share of taxes.
  • Ensure clients realize the full benefits of allowable tax exemptions, credits and incentives, property values, and tax abatements.
  • Recognize retroactive opportunities to generate refunds.

Expand Technology

Provide project management services to strengthen financial systems.

  • Review existing tax decision software models for accuracy and recommend changes, if needed.
  • Oversee the implementation of customized tax decision software models.

Team of Experts

We have partnered with minority and women business owners to provide exceptional services throughout all of North America.

Strategic Alliance Team

Gwendolyn Evans

Gwendolyn Evans

GSE is The State Tax Experts in the areas of sales and use, business license, excise, and other indirect taxes. The firm delivers customizable multi-state and local tax solutions to its clients.

Randy Ellison

Randy Ellison

Cambridge Tax is your business personal property and real estate tax experts. The firm has developed a tax tool that allows for comprehensive insight to all rules, laws, and regulations for every state that imposes taxes on real and personal property.

Jason Brown, Partner

Jason Brown, Partner

Advantous Law focuses exclusively on state and local tax legal matters. The firm provides legal opinions on complex tax matters and, when litigation is necessary, handles each stage of the litigation process, from administrative tribunals through the courts.

Kevin Keane

Kevin Keane

Directed Action supports C-level executives on their most critical projects. They partner with clients to enable, support, and achieve strategic transformation.

Rodney Woods

Rodney Woods

PIN identifies, evaluates, educates, and introduces eligible diverse business owners to private equity, venture capitalist, family offices, and banking institutions actively seeking opportunities to support underserved markets; all while helping businesses extend capacity for job creation.

Meet Your Business Connector

Gwendolyn Standberry Evans, founder of Standberry Enterprises, Inc., is a professional with a unique combination of tax policy, management, and leadership skills.  She has multistate tax experience as a corporate employee and business owner. 

  • Nationally Certified by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), Women’s Business Council – Southwest, 2023 to current
  • Nationally Certified by the Dallas/Fort Worth Minority Supplier Development Council, 2021 to current
  • Small Business Enterprise Certification, 2021 to current
  • Texas Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Certified, 2021 to current
  • Certified Member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation
  • Diverse Organization of Firms Executive Board, 2020 to current
  • YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas Board of Directors, 2013 to 2019
  • Trumpets4Kids Foundation Board of Directors, 2011 to 2015
  • Institute for Professionals in Taxation Board of Governors, 2009 to 2012 and 2007 to 2008
  • Raytheon Finance Shared Services Diversity Council, 2007 to 2011
  • A & G Evans Management, Inc. Board of Directors, 2000 to 2010
  • Nubian Queens Investment Club Board of Directors and President, 1995 to 2005
  • Institute for Professionals in Taxation (IPT)
    • Chair of University Relations Committee, 2015 to 2024
    • Member of Annual Conference Property Tax Committee, 2021
    • Member of Outreach Committee, 2019 to 2021
    • Chair of Mentoring Committee, 2012 to 2014
    • Co-Chair of Advanced Sales and Use Tax Academy, 2012 to 2013
    • Member of Advanced Sales and Use Tax Academy, 2003 to 2011
  • Texas Taxpayers and Research Association (TTARA)
    • Member of Tax Policy Committee, 2011 to 2020
  • Louisiana Association of Tax Administrators (LATA)
    • Member of Industry Committee, 2013 to 2019
  • State of Texas
    • Member of Texas Aerospace and Aviation Advisory Committee, 2009-2013 (appointed by Governor Rick Perry)
    • Member of Texas Comptroller’s Tax Policy Committee, 2003 to 2006
  • Interstate Tax Corporation
    • Speaker at Annual Sales & Use Tax Planning Conference, 2015 to current. Topic: Ethics & Managing the Sales and Use Tax Function and Preparing for Audits and Litigation
    • Speaker at Advanced Sales and Use Tax Conference, 2018 to current.  Topic: Ethics and Procedural Issues
  • Institute for Professionals in Taxation (IPT)
    • Speaker at IPT Annual Conference, 2024. Topic: Professional Ethics
    • Instructor and Breakout Facilitator at Sales and Use Tax School II, 2018 to 2022. Topics: Advanced Construction Contracting and Tax Planning
    • Session Leader/Facilitator at Advanced Sales and Use Tax Academy, 2013, 2008, 2005, and 2003
    • Instructor and Breakout Facilitator at Sales and Use Tax School II, 2009 to 2013. Topic: Tax Planning
    • Instructor and Breakout Facilitator at Sales and Use Tax School I, 2005 to 2008.  Topic: Contracting
    • Speaker at Sales and Use Tax Symposium, 2004
  • Council on State Taxation (COST)
    • Speaker at Great Issues Conference, 2006. Topic: Tax Planning when Partnering with Corporate Government Affairs.

  

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