Laurie Wik

Senior Director
30+ years of sales and use tax experience
Specializes in process optimization, exposure analyses and remediation, audit defense services, nexus and taxability analyses, capital expenditure planning and overpayment reviews
Serves all industries and specializes in technology services and life sciences
San Francisco
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Laurie Wik is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax, LLC in San Francisco. She specializes in sales and use tax matters including nexus and product taxability analyses, tax process diagnostic and optimization reviews, audit defense, exposure analyses, exposure remediation and overpayment reviews.

With more than 30 years of experience, Ms. Wik has a particular focus in the technology and hosted services sectors, and also works with clients across other various industries including life sciences, construction, engineering and biotech.

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Wik was a a Tax Director at DuCharme, McMillen & Associates. Before DuCharme McMillen, she served as as a state and local tax director in the San Jose office of Deloitte Tax, where she led the Tax Technology Industry subsector group for the national indirect tax practice. Previously, she served as the State and Local Tax Manager at Network Associates, Inc., a software manufacturer and hosted software and services provider.

Ms. Wik earned a bachelor's degree in business administration with options in accounting and finance from California State University East Bay, and a master's degree in taxation from Golden Gate University, San Francisco. She is a member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation (IPT) and holds the Certified Member of the Institute (CMI) designation. Ms. Wik is an instructor for IPT's annual intermediate sales tax school and speaks regularly throughout the country on the topic of cloud computing and other indirect tax matters affecting high technology companies and their customers.

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