Areas of Expertise - Hospitality
Pivotal Tax Solutions brings a broad range of tax expertise to bear in specific industries such as the Hospitality Industry Pivotal believes by thoroughly understanding the business needs of our clients, we can best bring the greatest value to the organization.
Our practitioners include a former:
Director of State and Local Taxes for Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc., the parent company of ITT/Sheraton Hotels and Westin Hotel Company. Extensive experience in sales & use taxes, occupancy taxes, real estate transfer taxes and mergers and acquisition, including responsibility for transitioning all state and local tax matters relating to the $14 billion acquisition of ITT/Sheraton, $2.5 billion merger of Westin Hotel Company and the disposal of the $3 billion Caesars World gaming operations.
Manager of Property Taxes for a Starwood Hotel and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. with responsibility for all property tax functions, including property tax appeals, property tax litigation, budgeting and property tax payments relating to Starwood’s 125 owned hotels throughout North America.
Department of revenue general counsel with responsibility for sales & use tax. Extensive experience in the area of transactional taxes, occupancy taxes, telecommunication taxes. Litigated hotel tax cased to court of appeals level. Experience also in restructuring hotel business operations for tax minimization.
