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Laurie Wik

Senior Director at Alvarez & Marsal Taxand
San Francisco, California
Laurie Wik is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Taxand in San Francisco. Ms. Wik specializes in sales and use tax matters, including overpayment reviews, process optimization, exposure analyses and remediation, audit defense services, nexus and taxability analyses, and capital expenditure planning.

With more than 26 years of sales and use tax experience, Ms. Wik serves a diverse group of industries including construction, engineering, biotech and life sciences, as well as technology clients such as interactive gaming companies, SaaS providers, hosted services providers, social networking sites and other web-based product sellers. She also advises traditional businesses that are consumers of cloud services or are transitioning their business models into the cloud.
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Laurie Wik is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Taxand in San Francisco. Ms. Wik specializes in sales and use tax matters, including overpayment reviews, process optimization, exposure analyses and remediation, audit defense services, nexus and taxability analyses, and capital expenditure planning.

With more than 26 years of sales and use tax experience, Ms. Wik serves a diverse group of industries including construction, engineering, biotech and life sciences, as well as technology clients such as interactive gaming companies, SaaS providers, hosted services providers, social networking sites and other web-based product sellers. She also advises traditional businesses that are consumers of cloud services or are transitioning their business models into the cloud.

Laurie started her career at DMA, where she received her foundation in multistate tax principles before joining Network Associates, Inc., a software manufacturer and hosted software and services provider. She then entered public accounting in 2003, just in time to assist companies to implement the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Sections 302 and 404 and led the Tax Technology Industry subsector group for the Deloitte Tax national indirect tax practice for several years and rejoined DMA in June 2014.

About Me

How many years of experience do you have in your field?
26+ years of sales and use tax experience
What topics have you lectured or presented on?
Instructor for IPT's annual intermediate sales tax school and speaks regularly throughout the country on the topic of cloud computing and other indirect tax matters affecting high technology companies and their customers.

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Associations

Association Position
Institute for Professionals in Taxation Member

Education

School Degree Graduation Year
California State University-East Bay B.A. 1990
Golden Gate University M.S.T. 2004

Contact Information

Alvarez & Marsal Taxand

425 Market St Fl 18
San Francisco, CA 94105