EORTAX consultants specialize in reducing Sales, Use and Severance Tax liabilities for oil and gas producers on both a retroactive and prospective basis. The professionals at EORTAX have many years of experience in tax research, policy determinations, accounting, consulting and finance. EOR tax consultant’s experience and strong focus on client service results in significant severance and sales and use tax savings for our clients.



Consider some of the benefits to your operations:
  • Sales, Use and Severance Tax refunds-prospective and retroactive
  • Improved monthly cash flow as a result of prospective savings
  • Increased Reserve Value due to lower operating tax expense and improved fair market value of your properties
  • Training and education of personnel involved in Severance, Sales and Use Tax reporting while working on your tax project
  • Superior documentation from start to finish-beginning with the analysis to the journal entries to book your refunds
Susette M. McNeel, CPA
Managing Director

Susette is the managing director and founder for Enhanced Operating Recovery. She is a tax professional with over 10 years of experience in state and local taxation, compliance and tax incentive recovery for oil and gas companies. Susette focuses on sales, use and severance tax incentives for leases/wells located in the mid continental region. Susette is an expert in researching current legal and statutory tax administrative and judicial decisions that adds a "warranty" to the tax application and recovery process.

Susette has managed comprehensive state tax audits including the taxpayer's document production, coordination of document production by department and researches current legal decisions and statutes to provide legal justification for taxpayer disputes. She has appeared before the Utah State Tax Commission as an expert witness in an oil and gas property tax dispute. Susette received her Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Accounting, Magna Cum Laude from Sam Houston State University in Texas. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Texas Society of CPAs and the Houston Chapter of CPAs.


LEADING THE WAY TO REDUCING SALES AND PRODUCTION TAXES

Susette is a leader in enhanced oil recovery tax incentives. She has worked with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to clarify and define enhanced oil recovery tax regulations. She also has sought and received a tax policy determination from the Oklahoma Tax Commission that will benefit every Oklahoma operator who qualifies for severance tax savings.

Yani Ruiz

Senior Oil & Gas Tax Consultant

Yani Ruiz is a Senior Oil & Gas Tax Consultant for Enhanced Operating Recovery. Prior to joining Enhance Operating Recovery, Mrs. Ruiz was employed as a Tax Accountant with a large Houston based oil and gas E&P company for four years. Her primary areas of specialization include analysis of federal income tax laws for independent operators, sales and use tax, severance tax. Yani effectively managed state and local tax burden.

Yani has helped large and mid-sized companies identify and secure oil and gas tax savings opportunities. Although the primary emphasis of her career has been on property taxes, she has also assisted with securing lucrative government incentives. Yani is dedicated to meeting EOR goals with high standards of excellence, integrity, and professionalism.Yani received her Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting, from the University of Houston in Texas. She is fluent in Spanish.