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  • Overview

    A Full Suite of Services Designed to Minimize Your Tax Liability

    Severance tax is a tax paid on the extraction of nonrenewable natural resources, such as oil and natural gas. The revenue generated from these taxes is often used to fund public programs and offset the costs associated with resource extraction. Severance tax varies greatly from state to state and comes with increased risks of audits and overpayment. 

    Our expert team of severance tax consultants ensures you only pay what you owe—and not a penny more—while remaining compliant.

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    Severance Tax Solutions That Drive Profitability and Compliance

    Our end-to-end severance tax services, ranging from audits to refund verifications, help companies maintain profitability and a respected reputation. 

  • Proven Results

    Ryan’s Track Record of Success

    Ryan’s severance tax consultants deliver exceptional value through in-depth documentation methodologies, thorough technical expertise, and strategic audit defense capabilities. Our multidisciplinary team combines severance tax knowledge with regulatory experience to guide businesses through the complex payment and reporting rules that come with severance taxes. Our comprehensive knowledge of deductions, rate changes, and production volumes has helped clients stay compliant across multiple jurisdictions and their varying requirements.

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Incentive Identification and Certification

Our Approach
Systematic identification and certification of available state production incentives and deductions to capture all eligible savings. We’ll review your operations, production data, and well characteristics to identify every incentive you may be eligible for, from reduced rates to specialized credits, to reduce your overall tax burden.

Maximize Savings and Ensure Long-Term Compliance

Compliance Data Scrubs
When an unseized credit opportunity is identified, our team will recover your missed credits. We also compare your reported volumes, well status, pricing, deductions, and historical filings against state requirements to identify inconsistencies and gaps to strengthen compliance and spot opportunities to adjust past filings and recover money.

Severance Tax Process Initiatives
Ryan evaluates your current process from end to end to pinpoint bottlenecks and recommend improvements that make your reporting more accurate and predictable to maintain long-term compliance.

Tax Reimbursement Contract Reviews
We provide severance tax analysis of reimbursement contracts to ensure you aren’t overpaying or under-recovering taxes.

  • Oil and Gas

    We serve companies operating in the oil and gas sector, including operators, producers, and midstream companies, and manage the full range of severance tax responsibilities. We understand the characteristics and costs that shape tax profiles to spot issues early and guide companies toward accurate filings and meaningful savings.

  • Energy

    Our energy clients face a shifting landscape of rules, rate changes, and reporting expectations. Our team of severance tax consultants reviews your data and confirms how each jurisdiction treats your production activity to ensure filings match both regulations and the way your business operates.

Marketing Cost Deduction Recalculation

Our Approach
Avoid overpaying in severance tax with marketing cost deduction recalculations. We will work on your behalf to identify calculation errors and recover any overpaid amounts. 

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  • Severance tax is a tax paid by businesses that extract nonrenewable resources from the earth, such as oil, natural gas, coal, and timber. This also includes any business that gains royalty interest in these businesses. The tax is calculated based on a percentage of either the value or the amount of resources extracted. The income from severance tax is paid to the state government from which the resources were extracted. Itʼs intended to compensate the states for the loss of these nonrenewable resources.
  • Each state or tribal government has its own laws and regulations regarding severance tax, which can make compliance a challenge. Not only do they charge different tax rates, but they also have different laws regarding when and how these taxes are applied. Calculating severance tax can also be complex, and even small mistakes can lead to significant errors down the line, which increases the risk of overpayment. Audits are also quite common, so compliance is imperative. 
  • Our severance tax experts work tirelessly on your behalf to reduce your severance tax liability while maintaining full compliance with all regulations. Our tax professionals perform deductions, recalculations, and compliance data scrubbing to identify and recover any overpayments. We’ll also pursue incentive certifications on your behalf.
  • Audits and adjustment notices are a primary component of our severance tax services. In the event of an audit or adjustment notice, our expert team works on your behalf to ensure a smooth process. We’ll prepare a defense, compile all necessary documentation, and handle all communication. The objective is to acquire a favorable resolution that eliminates or lowers your tax liability.