Aaron Simmons joins Clarus Partners as a Tax Manager, bringing 18 years of experience in sales and use tax. He advises clients on complex tax issues, including nexus studies, audit defense, tax recovery, voluntary disclosure agreements (VDAs), due diligence reviews, and tax training. Aaron has supported clients across a variety of industries—including manufacturing, healthcare, retail, … Read more

Rachael Appel, Manager, brings extensive expertise in unclaimed property to her role at Clarus Partners. She truly values her client-facing position, which allows her the opportunity to work one-on-one with her clients to address their unclaimed property issues and needs. Rachel earned a BA in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, majoring in Accounting … Read more

Rachel Billing, Senior Manager, has been with Clarus Partners for more than a decade. Rachel played an integral role in the development of our Exemption Certificate Management Software, AkuCert, and provides a myriad of consulting services to the various clients served by Clarus Partners. Rachel earned an MBA from Ohio Dominican University. While there, she … Read more

Anel Salinas Dorhauer, Tax Manager, has a strong background in Louisiana and Colorado sales and use taxes as she was an auditor in both Departments of Revenue as well as with one of the parishes. Considering Louisiana and Colorado are two of the more problematic states from a sales and use tax perspective (i.e., the … Read more

Dennis Eastman, Director, has more than 30 years of experience in the Texas State Comptroller’s office working in several leadership roles as state tax auditor and oversaw thousands of sales and use tax audits. He subsequently used this expertise as a formidable Texas sales and use tax audit defender for companies of all sizes, including … Read more

Kelli Kirwan, Tax Manager, brings 25 years of expertise in various fuel taxes, sales and use taxes, and state and local tax audits to her role on the compliance team at Clarus Partners. She began her tax career in the aviation industry as a Fuel Tax Analyst. She advanced to Fuel Tax Manager over two … Read more

Liz Nguyen, Tax Manager, brings valuable experience from her previous roles as Sales and Use Tax Consultant at Ryan and later as Indirect Tax Senior Consultant at Deloitte. Throughout her career, Liz has provided tax consulting services to clients across various industries, including retail and wholesale, airlines and hotels, manufacturers, restaurants, insurance, hospitals, hedge funds, … Read more

Carolyn Pearson, Manager, has an impressive 30 years’ experience, 15 of which are made up of sales tax compliance. She also has strong accounts receivable and accounts payable background from her time spent at a local CPA firm, which gives Carolyn tremendous insight into the intricacies of a sales and use tax audit. Carolyn loves … Read more