Mr. Cole currently serves as Sales & Use Tax Consultant for Benchmark. Since 2013 Jeremy has accumulated a variety of experience working in the sales and use tax industry. He spent two years at Ryan, LLC, a Dallas-based firm which claims the largest transaction tax practice in the country. While here Jeremy represented various industries, including retail, grocery, restaurants and manufacturing. In 2014 Jeremy was acquired by one of the largest public accounting firms in the country BKD, LLP as a senior consultant. Jeremy, along with three team members were charged with starting the firm’s first sales and use tax division in the Dallas market. For the next two years Jeremy embraced this role, offering refund reviews, compliance and audit defense services for a variety of clients. Industries he served included retail, oil and gas, manufacturing, utilities, construction, information technology, hospitality and restaurants to name a few.

For Jeremy, sales and use tax is a family affair. His wife was a Sales and Use Tax Auditor for the State of Texas for four years and since 2014 has been a senior consultant at one of the largest tax consulting firms in the country. Jeremy received his BBA in Accounting from Southwestern Assemblies of God University, where he achieved the Dean’s List. He and his wife currently reside in Mesquite with their two young children.