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Your Dedicated Tax Partner
Data center operators face significant tax complexities, such as managing multi-state compliance, securing incentives for expansion, and ensuring equitable property assessments. DMA is the only firm with a dedicated team of data center industry tax experts that helps operators minimize tax liabilities, optimize incentives, and maintain compliance across jurisdictions. Our tailored approach ensures scalable tax strategies that align with your growth objectives and evolving operational needs.
Who We Serve
- Tech Companies
- Cloud Services
- Application Development
- Financial Services
- Data Storage
- Web Hosting
- Healthcare
- Retail
- Real Estate
- Security Services
Tax Services
Advisory
Effective tax planning is essential for long-term savings. By partnering with DMA’s tax advisory and planning experts early in the development process, data center operators can maximize tax benefits throughout the project lifecycle.
Property Valuation and Appeal Services
Our team handles property tax valuations, assessment reviews, and appeals for data centers, advocating for fair market assessments to optimize tax outcomes and reduce liabilities.
Site Selection and Tax Liability Forecasting
We combine site selection expertise with detailed tax liability forecasting to identify ideal data center locations. Our analysis considers tax implications, local incentives, and legislative landscapes to optimize site choices and operational costs.
Transaction Tax
Our team delivers analysis and tailored research on sales and use tax issues to support your tax administration efforts. Our seasoned tax consultants and transaction tax experts ensure compliance with multi-jurisdictional tax laws, providing actionable insights and detailed guidance to address complex tax scenarios.
Regulatory Advocacy
DMA helps you navigate changing tax laws and advocate for favorable terms with jurisdictional authorities.
Credits and Incentives Procurement
We help data centers maximize investments by negotiating customized tax incentives, simplifying approval processes, and aligning with local economic goals to drive project success.
eastAudit & Recovery
DMA’s audit and recovery team analyzes data center expenditures to uncover tax minimization opportunities and support clients through jurisdictional audits.
Analysis of Spend
We work with data center owners, operators, and tenants to minimize sales and use taxes, advise on exemptions unique to the industry, and recover overpayments.
Sales & Use 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.
Property Tax Audit Support
Our team defends data centers in property tax audits, advocating for equitable resolutions while reducing liabilities and ensuring compliance.
Audit Defense & Representation
Our experienced team provides comprehensive audit support for data centers, including property tax, transaction tax, and unclaimed property. We advocate for equitable resolutions, ensure compliance, and minimize liabilities while proactively addressing risks and preparing documentation for successful outcomes.
With a deep understanding of data center-specific challenges, we safeguard your business and help you navigate even the most complex audits with confidence.
Unclaimed Property Asset Recovery
Recover unclaimed assets, such as uncashed vendor checks or credits, from government entities with the help of DMA’s experts.
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Compliance
Our in-house, US-based compliance center offers outsourced tax return preparation, assessment tracking, and reporting tailored to data center business needs and supported by experienced tax professionals. Our scalable process evolves with your changing business while proactively addressing risks and preparing documentation to ensure successful audit outcomes.
Property Tax
We simplify property tax compliance for data centers by handling all filings, payments, and regulatory updates. Our tailored solutions ensure accuracy and reduce administrative burdens, allowing operators to focus on scaling operations.
Sales & Use Tax
Our sales and use tax compliance services offer a complete solution for preparing and filing monthly sales and use tax returns. With a U.S.-based, centralized compliance center and a team of state-specific experts, we ensure accurate, timely filings while acting as a seamless extension of your tax department.
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Tax Technology & Software
The right technology and processes can transform your tax function, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and scalability. DMA’s tax technology experts provide end-to-end solutions, including:
Tax System Optimization
Our technology experts assess and enhance existing transaction tax systems to improve accuracy and streamline processes.
Tax Technology Selection & Implementation
DMA helps businesses identify the best-fit 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
Automate the management of certificates to reduce manual errors and ensure compliance.
Custom Software Solutions
Our experts can 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
Streamline your unclaimed property compliance with our proprietary software, AUPTC. Automate workflows, meet deadlines, and reduce audit risks with ease.
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Tax Considerations for Data Centers
Achieving full profitability for your data center requires a strategic plan that aligns state and local taxes, incentives, and entitlements throughout a project’s lifecycle. Partner with our team of experts to ensure your company maintains compliance while obtaining financial success.
To set your internal tax team up for success, download our valuable resource, Tax Considerations for Data Center Projects, that can help your business achieve full project profitability.
Practice Areas
Explore DMA’s tax services tailored to data center operations.
Property Tax
Minimizing property tax while staying compliant across a portfolio of properties can be complex and resource-intensive. By leveraging DMA as your expert property tax partner, you can save time and money managing one of your largest operating expenses. east
Transaction Tax
DMA delivers comprehensive end-to-end transaction tax and indirect tax services for complex organizations, including compliance, recovery, audit support, automation, and advisory. We help tax departments reduce risk, improve accuracy, and operate with confidence across every jurisdiction. east
Credits & Incentives
DMA’s credits and incentives team helps you capture tax savings and drive long-term value on capital investments. From planning through compliance, we deliver expert guidance across property, transaction, and income tax incentives—so you can expand, hire, and invest with confidence. east
Unclaimed Property
DMA provides expert unclaimed property support for businesses, helping you stay compliant, minimize risk, and recover lost assets. From compliance planning to audit defense and software tools, we offer tailored services to simplify unclaimed property management at every stage. east
Tax Technology & Automation
DMA’s tax technology experts align ERP systems, tax engines, data, and processes to improve indirect tax accuracy and efficiency. From automation readiness and implementation to optimization and managed services, we help organizations support global compliance with confidence. east