Manufacturing

Property Tax

For large-scale manufacturers, property tax liabilities can be complex and burdensome, particularly for multi-jurisdiction operations, heavy equipment, and specialized facilities. DMA’s Assessment Review & Appeal service ensures that industrial properties are fairly valued, preventing excessive tax burdens caused by inaccurate assessments or outdated valuation methods.

DMA works with clients throughout a facility’s lifecycle, from initial planning and construction to operations, expansion, and decommissioning. This includes collaborating with assessors early to establish accurate valuation methodologies and ensure appropriate tax treatment, securing exemptions and abatements, managing valuations as facilities grow and evolve, and providing strategic guidance during decommissioning to minimize tax liabilities.

For manufacturers with large, multi-location portfolios, DMA’s Portfolio Management & Administration service provides centralized oversight of tax obligations—handling tax planning, bill review and payment, assessment monitoring, and appeal coordination across jurisdictions. This proactive approach ensures compliance, optimizes tax strategy, and minimizes excessive tax burdens.

Transaction Tax

Our team delivers analysis and tailored research on transaction tax issues to support your tax administration efforts. Our transaction tax experts ensure compliance with multi-jurisdictional tax laws, providing actionable insights and detailed guidance to address complex tax scenarios. We help manufacturers identify tax savings opportunities related to capital equipment, raw materials, and production processes, helping you manage complex taxability issues, exemptions, and supply chain tax challenges across multiple jurisdictions.

State Income & Franchise Tax

Through our alliance with GTM, state income and franchise tax advisory experts help manufacturers reduce tax exposure, uncover savings, and maintain compliance through tailored strategies such as tax recovery, nexus studies, and minimization. We also identify available credits, incentives, and cost-saving opportunities to strengthen your financial position and improve cash flow.

Fixed Asset Verification

For manufacturers with large equipment inventories, inaccurate fixed asset records can lead to overstated tax liabilities and compliance risks. DMA’s Asset Verification Service helps companies identify ghost assets, correct misclassifications, and ensure asset records align with tax and financial reporting requirements.

DMA helps manufacturers avoid overpayments and mitigate audit risks while streamlining asset management by improving asset accuracy across property tax, depreciation, and compliance functions.

Site Selection and Tax Liability Forecasting

Our Site Selection service for manufacturers integrates tax liability forecasting to evaluate locations based on tax incentives, operational costs, and regulatory impacts. We help identify optimal sites that align with production needs and long-term financial goals, ensuring efficiency and cost-effectiveness at every stage.

Transaction Tax

We identify and recover overpaid taxes while addressing inaccuracies and inefficiencies to mitigate future risk. Our comprehensive process provides detailed analysis, proactive solutions, and expert support to optimize recovery efforts and future compliance. We often find overpayments related to equipment purchases, raw materials, and production-related services, while addressing exemptions, taxability, and jurisdictional issues that can impact your operations and profitability.

Additionally, we provide robust audit support, assisting manufacturing companies in managing audits—ensuring accurate documentation and risk mitigation associated with tax assessments.

Property Tax

Manufacturers are frequent targets of property tax audits, and inaccurate assessments can result in overpayment or compliance risks. With deep expertise in manufacturing-specific valuation methodologies, DMA’s Property Tax Audit Management service helps manufacturers navigate audits efficiently to mitigate risks and avoid disputes, ensure accurate asset classification to prevent over-taxation, and advocate for fair assessments—all of which reduces long-term tax exposure.

DMA can also perform historical property tax reviews to identify and recover past overpayments caused by overstated equipment values, inaccurate depreciation schedules, and errors in business personal property tax assessments.

Unclaimed Property Asset Recovery

Our experts help manufacturing companies recover unclaimed assets, such as outstanding customer refunds, uncashed vendor payments, and tax overpayments, from over 400 government entities. With a proven track record of reclaiming millions in dormant assets, we deliver significant financial returns to strengthen your balance sheet and improve cash flow.

Transaction Tax

Our Transaction Tax Compliance service offers a complete solution for preparing and filing monthly transaction tax returns. With a US-based, centralized compliance center and a team of jurisdiction-specific experts, we ensure accurate, timely filings while acting as a seamless extension of your tax department. Our experts address key manufacturing challenges, such as capital equipment exemptions, production consumables, and multi-jurisdictional sourcing issues—ensuring proper tax treatment.

Property Tax

For manufacturers operating across multiple jurisdictions, managing property tax compliance can be complex, time-consuming, and resource-intensive. DMA’s Property Tax Compliance service ensures accurate return preparation, timely filing, and proactive assessment monitoring to prevent errors and penalties.

Our centralized, US-based compliance team handles everything from receiving and reviewing tax bills to challenging assessments, maintaining compliance, managing audits, and paying tax bills on your behalf. By leveraging DMA’s full-service compliance capabilities, manufacturers gain greater visibility into tax obligations, reduce administrative burdens, and ensure seamless, accurate compliance across their entire property portfolio.

State Income & Franchise Tax

Through DMA’s alliance with GTM, state income and franchise tax compliance services simplify state tax challenges, offering support from filings to nexus studies and voluntary disclosures with our US-based team, helping reduce tax liabilities and allowing your team to focus on growth.

The right technology and processes can transform your tax function, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and scalability. DMA’s tax technology team provides end-to-end solutions, including:

Tax Process Optimization and Automation

Our technology experts assess and enhance existing transaction tax systems to improve accuracy and streamline processes.

Tax Software Selection & Implementation

DMA helps businesses identify the best-fit transaction tax software solution and ensures seamless integration with existing systems. Our experienced team provides a comprehensive, unbiased evaluation, tailored implementation, and optimization to maximize the benefits of automation and align with your evolving business needs.

Exemption Certificate Management

We help clients automate the management of exemption certificates to reduce manual errors and ensure compliance.

Custom Software Solutions

Our experts design and implement tailored solutions to meet your tax requirements, including tools for data analysis, reporting, and automation.

Ongoing Maintenance and Enhancements

Keep your tax technology systems optimized, scalable, and aligned with regulatory changes by utilizing DMA’s Managed Tax Services.

Simplify Unclaimed Property

Our AUPTC unclaimed property software automates unclaimed property compliance for manufacturers. From property tracking and due diligence to vendor refund processing and reporting, our solution streamlines workflows, enhances accuracy, and ensures timely compliance. Built-in reminders and email notifications help you meet deadlines and reduce audit risks with ease.