PRIVATE SECTOR EXPERIENCE
Current

• Principal, Ryan, Dallas office
  • Specializes in providing sales and use tax services, including multistate audit defense representation, research, reverse audits, and sales and use tax education on a national basis. In addition to sales and use tax services, Ms. Kissling specializes in the Texas Enterprise Zone Program, which is a business incentive for capital investment and new or retained jobs.
• Co-Practice Leader, Ryan, Gross Receipts Tax, Sales and Use Tax, Sampling, and Utility Exemption Studies.
  • Practice focus includes insurance, manufacturing, and refining industries.

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Ms. Kissling lectures on various state and local tax topics for Ryan clients. Additionally, she has appeared as a speaker for the following professional organizations:

• Council on State Taxation
• Institute for Professionals in Taxation
• Interstate Tax Corporation
• National Business Institute
• New York University, Institute on State and Local Taxation

PUBLICATIONS
Ms. Kissling has written articles for the New York University, Institute on State and Local Taxation and for the Institute for Professionals in Taxation.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Dallas/Fort Worth State Tax Association
  
  • Executive Director (1996–2000)
    
  • Secretary/Treasurer (1993–1995)
• Institute for Professionals in Taxation
  
  • Committee Member: Annual Conference (2002–2003)
    
  • Chair: Sales and Use Tax Symposium (2005)
    
  • Vice-Chair: Sales and Use Tax Symposium (2004)
    
  • Committee Member: Sales and Use Tax Symposium (2000–2001, 2003)
• New York University
  
  • Advisory Board: Institute on State and Local Taxation (2007)

EDUCATION/ACCREDITATION

• Master of Science Degree, Accounting (Emphasis in Taxation), University of North Texas
• Bachelor of Science Degree, Accounting, University of North Texas