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Pepe State Tax Consulting (PSTC) provides various state and local tax services, specializing in Florida sales and use tax, communications services tax, and documentary stamp tax. PSTC is networked with other state, local, and federal tax experts, and will always recommend that other experts or legal counsel be consulted when presented with issues or projects beyond our level of expertise or ability. Ralph Pepe worked as the leader of the North Florida sales and use tax practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. His responsibilities included designing and implementation of state tax minimization strategies, defending clients in sales tax audits, analyzing state tax consequences of various business transactions, performing refund analysis and refund claims (reverse audits), researching state tax issues, and drafting technical ruling requests on behalf of clients. Prior to PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ralph served in the Office of the General Counsel in the Florida Department of Revenue. He handled sales tax matters and telecommunications tax matters at the state. He acted as a conferee in the resolution of sales and use tax audits, assisted in drafting tax legislation and bill analyses for the Florida Legislature, drafted tax regulations for the Florida Administrative Code, authored tax rulings (TAAs and LTAs) to affected taxpayers, and provided taxpayers with assistance on various sales tax and telecommunications tax matters. Ralph is a frequent lecturer for Lorman and NBI sales tax seminars, and is an author for Lexis/Nexis sales tax practice insights. Ralph has a bachelors degree in accounting from the University of Miami, a law degree from the Florida State University College of Law, and an LL.M. in taxation from the University of Florida. He is a member of the tax section of the Florida Bar.

Website: http://www.pepetax.com/