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    Principal, Severance Tax and Royalty

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    Principal and Practice Leader, Severance Tax and Royalty

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    Principal, Severance Tax

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    Dana Shipes

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Navigate Severance Tax and Royalty Complexity with Confidence

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Maximize Value While Safeguarding Against Audit Scrutiny

Severance tax and royalty obligations represent some of the most complex and closely monitored elements of the energy sector’s fiscal landscape. Our specialists deliver strategies that reduce liabilities, uncover credits and incentives, and defend client positions with precision. By combining unmatched industry-specific expertise with proprietary technology and advanced data analytics, we ensure clients pay what is fair and equitable while strengthening audit resilience.

$5.450.00B

in tax savings for oil and gas, mining, and refining clients

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$5.450.00B

in tax savings for oil and gas, mining, and refining clients

820%

Of oil & gas companies in the Fortune 1000 served

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Strategic Solutions for Severance Tax and Royalty

  • Ryan approaches severance tax and royalty not as a static obligation, but as a high-impact engine for capital recovery. We combine unmatched technical depth, proprietary technology, and deep-dive recalculations to identify production-related incentives, recover overpayments, and resolve reporting inconsistencies that directly transform tax functions into a strategic capital advantage to fuel your business’s success.
  • We fiercely advocate on your behalf, managing the entire audit lifecycle with well-established regulatory credibility. By leveraging a multidisciplinary team that combines industry knowledge with technical defense expertise, our experts influence audit methodologies, protect your interests, and secure favorable resolutions for your business.
  • By deploying proprietary, purpose-built tax technology, we systematically identify reporting inconsistencies to mitigate risks before audits occur. Our experts move beyond reactive filing to establish proactive compliance frameworks that anticipate regulatory shifts while providing your team with a single source of truth and total visibility.
  • Ryan delivers complete lifecycle support for severance tax and royalty—from incentive identification to adjustment and audit support. By meticulously documenting and certifying every finding, we provide defensible compliance assurance and immediate financial benefit to fuel your business’s success.
  • With well-established regulatory credibility and unmatched localized expertise, Ryan consistently delivers more value than competing firms. Our blend of technical defense expertise and innovative technology ensures clients don’t just maintain consistent, defensible reporting—they secure favorable resolutions, capture legitimate deductions, and empower decision-makers with actionable insights and impactful results.
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • A severance tax consultant manages a full scope of services, including the gathering of data, calculation of allowable deductions, preparation and defense of filings, identification of incentives, and recovery of overpayments. The objective is to ensure companies meet their obligations accurately while preventing unnecessary liabilities and strengthening audit defensibility.
  • Specialized consultants reduce liability exposure, safeguard against penalties, and uncover opportunities for savings that are often missed. We combine deep sector expertise, technical audit defense, and advanced recovery methodologies to deliver measurable financial value while protecting against long-term audit risk.
  • Through advanced data analytics, regulatory expertise, and extensive industry experience, our experts pinpoint eligible deductions and incentives across client operations. Each finding is substantiated with detailed documentation and certified where required, providing both immediate financial benefit and audit-ready assurance.
  • We provide a comprehensive suite of royalty services designed to maximize economic recovery and reduce your overall liability. These services include audit and adjustment support, credit identification and recovery, and contract and lease review.
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  • SEVERANCE TAX

    Unlock Savings and Strengthen Audit Resilience with Targeted Severance Tax Services

    Validate Allowances and Recalculate Historical Returns

    Our severance tax specialists leverage deep expertise and proprietary tools to move beyond surface-level data and conduct comprehensive allowance reviews and recalculations of historical returns.

    Architect Strategies for Prospective Savings

    We employ a deep-dive approach, powered by proprietary tax technology and analysis of emerging tax laws to develop robust strategies that accurately forecast and minimize severance tax liabilities. 

    Execute Strategic Audit Defense and Dispute Resolution

    Our severance tax services combine oil and gas knowledge with audit defense, legal, and administrative expertise to manage disputes and position clients favorably against audit uncertainty. 

    Pursue Recovery Opportunities with Comprehensive Compliance Scrubs

    Our specialists perform rigorous compliance scrubs, systematically reviewing your historical filings and current data, correcting errors, managing adjustments, and verifying all available recovery opportunities.

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    “Ryan has been a tremendous business partner for many years through assisting Energen Resources in addressing complex multistate severance tax issues and in reducing our tax burden. Their industry experience, technical knowledge of severance tax initiatives, work product, and client services are superior and unmatched.”

    Director, Corporate Taxation, Diamondback Energy

  • ROYALTY

    Optimize Returns and Ensure Compliance with Expert Royalty Analytics and Advocacy

    Govern Royalty Return Analytics and Reconciliation

    Our royalty experts deliver comprehensive support for royalty filings, documentation, and reconciliation to ensure accuracy and compliance with complex regulations and reduce the risk of costly errors and penalties.

    Access Expert Audit and Adjustment Support

    We offer full-spectrum support for audit defense and dispute management, securing favorable resolutions and minimizing future liabilities.

    Pinpoint and Capture Royalty Credits and Recovery Opportunities

    Our royalty experts conduct specialized reviews of your historical royalty filings, third-party fees, and assets to successfully pinpoint royalty overpayment and recover substantial credits and refunds on your behalf.

    Validate Contract and Lease Compliance

    We conduct a rigorous review of your third-party contracts and lease terms to identify royalty clauses and cost deduction language, allowing experts to identify opportunities that may have been missed. 

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