PRIVATE SECTOR EXPERIENCE
Current

• Principal, Ryan, Austin office
  • Responsible for providing state and local sales and use tax services nationwide.
• Practice Leader, Ryan, Controversies and Appeals
  • Specializes in client representation for multistate sales and use tax services, including audit defense representation and sales and use tax recovery at the administrative hearings level.

Previous
Mr. Eidman has practiced as an attorney in the state and local tax field for 30 years.

PUBLIC SECTOR EXPERIENCE
Previous

• Director of Hearings Division, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
  • Supervised all contested tax assessments in Texas.

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Mr. Eidman lectures on various state and local tax topics for Ryan clients and has appeared as a speaker for the following organizations and events:

• Council on State Taxation
• Dallas/Forth Worth State Tax Association
• Institute for Professionals in Taxation
• Tax Executives Institute

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Comptroller of Public Accounts Industry Practitioner Liaison Group
• Equipment Leasing Association
  • Board of State Taxation Committee
• Institute for Professionals in Taxation
• Texas Association of Taxpayers
• Texas Bar Association
  • Liaison Committee with Comptroller of Public Accounts

EDUCATION/ACCREDITATION

• Juris Doctor Degree, The University of Texas School of Law, Licensed in Texas
  (Ryan is not a law firm.)
• Bachelor of Arts Degree, The University of Texas at Austin