Louisa Matthews

About Louisa Matthews

Louisa Matthews is a Managing Director in Deloitte Tax’s Multistate Tax Services Practice. She currently leads the Sales & Use Tax Practice for the Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Upstate New York areas while providing sales and use tax expertise to national clients within the Energy industry. Louisa also serves as the national Talent leader for Deloitte\'s Indirect Tax practice.Louisa has more than 30 years of sales and use tax experience, including managerial roles within large multi-state corporations in the energy, manufacturing, and hospitality industries. Prior to joining Deloitte Tax, Louisa spent seven years managing the Non-Income Taxes for a large integrated energy company located in the mid-Atlantic region. This experience enables Louisa to bring a practical and “best practices” approach to sales and use tax projects, including sales and use tax compliance process reviews and system improvements that focus on efficiency and the effective use of client resources to manage their overall sales and use tax burden. Louisa’s extensive multi-state experience includes providing services and appeal representation related to audit defense, transaction analysis and planning, refund reviews, simplified rate reporting (managed compliance agreements), multistate compliance and compliance system reviews, tax manual development, nexus reviews, and due diligence reviews. Louisa has served as an instructor providing sales and use tax training to clients and firm personnel. Louisa received her BS degree in Finance from The Pennsylvania State University and her MS degree in Taxation from Robert Morris University. Louisa is a Certified Member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation (CMI – Sales and Use Tax) and served as the vice-chair of the Marcellus Shale Coalition Tax and Fee Committee for the years 20••••21. She was included in the Pittsburgh Business Times’ 2016 list of “Women Leaders in Energy.” She is an active member of the Women’s Energy Network and several local professional tax organizations in the Pittsburgh area.

Experience

1. Managing Director - Multistate Tax

   德勤

   Jul 2006 — Present

   State and local Indirect Tax Director specializing in the Oil and Gas / Energy sector.

Education

• The Pennsylvania State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Finance

  1978 — 1982

• Robert Morris University

  Master's degree, Taxation

Skills

• Financial Reporting
• Accounting
• Corporate Tax
• Financial Analysis
• Income Tax
• Multistate State and Local Taxation, Sales and Use Taxes
• Due Diligence
• Tax Advisory
• Tax
• Indirect Taxation
• Tax Accounting
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Tax Research
• Auditing