Business Tax Manager (Departmental Manager 14)

This position is responsible for planning, directing and managing the operations of the Business Tax Technical (BTT) Team. BTT deals primarily with Michigan Business Tax (MBT), Corporate Income Tax (CIT), Sales, Use, and Withholding (SUW) Taxes, and Flow-Through Entity (FTE) Tax. The position ensures proper and consistent application of the Michigan statutes governing the assigned taxes and requires a thorough knowledge of the applicable tax acts. This position will participate in providing answers as an expert to highly technical and complex tax questions using; 1) independent research and interpretation of the impact of existing and proposed laws, policies and procedures; 2) analysis of laws and factual scenarios; and 3) application of past practices in varying scenarios to new fact scenarios. This position will ensure staff are accurately applying the tax acts when processing requests for informal conferences, reviewing and analyzing legal complaints and providing answers to legal proceedings. This position will ensure staff is prepared to provide assistance to the Attorney General staff in answering inquiries concerning higher level legal proceedings or providing testimony.  This position will oversee staff and assist in reviewing and analyzing existing tax laws and provide assistance in revising and developing rules and suggesting needed changes to bulletins and statutory amendments.  This position also contributes to Treasury business-tax-related Outreach functions and metrics.