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David Milner

Managing Director

Property Tax

ROLE

David leads an experienced team of real and personal property tax professionals across DMA’s West region, which delivers property tax minimization, planning, and audit defense. His team performs detailed property tax assessment and compliance reviews to identify assessment reduction opportunities. David and his team perform site inspections to support assessment reductions. His knowledge and experience enable him to negotiate lower tax values at informal levels and successfully argue valuations before assessing jurisdictions and Boards of Appeal.

 

EXPERTISE

28 years in property tax; 4 years with DMA

 

  • Wyoming personal property tax minimization for an industrial chemical plant resulted in a single-year assessment reduction exceeding $33,000,000 and corresponding tax savings of over $265,000
  • Arizona personal property tax minimization strategy for a meat processing plant resulted in a three-year assessment reduction exceeding $22,000,000 and corresponding tax savings of over $750,000
  • Arizona personal property tax minimization strategy for a data center resulted in a single-year assessment reduction exceeding $42,500,000 and corresponding tax savings of over $1,100,000
  • Develops and implements novel, state-specific, real and personal property tax minimization strategies
    to benefit West locations
JURISDICTIONS

Alaska |Arizona | California | Colorado | Hawaii | Idaho | Montana | Nevada | New Mexico | Oregon | Utah | Washington | Wyoming

 

INDUSTRIES

Commercial Real Estate | Data Centers | Distribution | Entertainment | Healthcare | Hospitality | Leasing | Manufacturing | Pharmaceuticals | Retail | Service | Technology

 

TECHNOLOGY

PTES In-house Property Tax platform

 

EDUCATION / CREDENTIALS

  • Bachelor of Science Business Administration, Finance – University of Arizona
  • Institute for Professionals in Taxation (IPT) – Member
  • Department of Insurance and Financial Institutions State of Arizona – Property Tax Agent
  • Attends continuing education courses which review the latest changes to state and local taxation