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Amy M. McMurry

Property Tax Consultant


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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS


Amy has 20 years of ad valorem tax consulting and compliance experience. While her primary focus is in the oil and gas industry, she has multi-state experience in commercial, industrial, and residential properties.

Amy began her career at Clarke & Company, where she had the opportunity to work for a diverse group of complex property clients. Her responsibilities included compliance for oil and gas producers, distributors, restaurant chains, country clubs, apartment complexes and condominiums, car dealerships, industrial complexes and yards, and various businesses. Amy then joined Ernst & Young, LLP where she became an ad valorem tax consultant focused on oil and gas properties.

As a consultant at Alvarez & Marsal Tax Advisory Services, Amy continued her ad valorem tax career performing valuation, negotiation, process improvement, and outsourcing services for mineral-related clients.

Amy joined Stancil & Co. in February 2009.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE


  • Property Valuation/Negotiation - Assisted in developing valuation methodologies and performed valuation/negotiation services for numerous energy, telecommunications, and energy service companies. Experience includes valuations of upstream oil and gas assets, drilling rigs, oilfield service equipment, telecommunications equipment, pipelines, and compressors. Valuations were utilized to minimize ad valorem taxation. Amy's experience in negotiating ad valorem tax values has resulted in substantial tax savings for her clients.
  • Property Tax Management - Assisted in the management of property tax departments for numerous oil and gas, telecommunications, and oilfield service companies through client outsourcing arrangements. Responsibilities included tax compliance, incentive analysis, evaluations of major company assets, assisting in merger and divestiture tax issues, tax planning, tax bill approval, and tax estimating analyses.
  • Property Tax Systems - Assisted in the development of property tax systems designed to provide ad valorem tax outsourcing/management for companies with substantial assets in several states. System capabilities include compliance, tax estimating, reporting, scheduling, tax bill processing, and general oversight of the property tax function.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS


  • 2005 - 2009   Alvarez & Marsal Tax Advisory Services
  • 1997 - 2005   Ernst & Young, LLP
  • 1990 - 1997   Clarke & Company

EDUCATION


  • University of Houston
    Clear Lake, Texas

PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATIONS


  • Texas Department of Licensing -
       Property Tax Consultant