Stephanie Gilfeather

About Stephanie Gilfeather

Stephanie Gilfeather is an Indirect Tax Director at Expedia. She manages both controversy and tax policy for a variety of issues, but specifically on the global trend of making marketplace platforms responsible for tax on transactions taking place on their platform. Her focus is on US indirect tax and global occupancy taxes.She previously was the first tax person at Instacart handling various complex indirect tax issues as well as any other tax issues that arose. Prior to Instacart, Stephanie worked at Deloitte\'s indirect tax practice in San Francisco focusing on the technology industry. She has worked with sales & use taxes administered across 45 states, as well as gross receipt taxes, telecommunications taxes, and other miscellaneous taxes imposed by state and local jurisdictions. Because she specializes in the technology industry, Stephanie is on the forefront of emerging issues, such as state\'s responses to the Wayfair decision, adoption of marketplace facilitator collections responses, and proper characterization of products and services in order to determine state-by-state taxabiliy. Stephanie has experience working both at the Washington Department of Revenue and the city of Seattle\'s Department of Finance & Administrative Services as well as for Washington States Senate Ways & Means Committee, which means she is also familar with Washington State\'s unique taxing system, including the business & occupation (\"B&O\") tax, real estate excise tax, and the public utility tax amonst others.

Experience

1. Director of Indirect Tax

   Expedia Group

   Sep 2021 — Present

Education

• University of Roehampton

  Master of Arts, International Service

  2003 — 2004

• University of Washington School of Law

  LLM, Taxation

  2010 — 2011

• Seattle University School of Law

  Juris Doctor, Tax Law

  2007 — 2010

• University of Washington

  Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration - International Business

  2001 — 2003

Skills

• Auditing
• Use Tax
• Microsoft Office
• Tax Law
• Big 4
• Accounting
• Income Tax
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Legal Writing
• Sales & Use Tax
• Due Diligence
• Tax Research
• Indirect Taxation
• Real Estate
• Corporate Tax
• Strategic Planning
• International Tax
• Sales Tax
• Tax Accounting
• Legal Research
• Tax Advisory
• Financial Analysis
• Tax