Jesse McClellan, Esq.

Sales Tax Attorney

Jesse W. McClellan, Esq. is among a very limited group of individuals in the sales and use tax consulting profession that can draw upon the knowledge and experience that comes from being a licensed attorney and a former state sales and use tax field auditor. Jesse’s unique skill-set, experience, and unwavering commitment to his clients, has allowed him to obtain a significantly high success rate in representing a broad range of complex issues on behalf of businesses and individuals before state taxing agencies. He has personally been responsible for saving his clients millions of dollars, having prevailed on several seven and eight figure cases before the California State Board of Equalization.

Before joining forces with Dan to form McClellan Davis, LLC, Jesse worked as an internal auditor for a Fortune 500 public corporation, where he helped ensure that retail locations across the nation remain in compliance. He then became a sales and use tax auditor for the California State Board of Equalization, accumulating a wealth of insider experience auditing a wide variety of businesses. Upon leaving the state, Jesse joined our predecessor company where he served as its vice-president and audit division lead consultant.

Jesse has provided expert witness testimony for sales and use tax purposes in civil litigation matters, written articles on a variety of tax-related topics and has spoken at several taxation and accounting seminars. Jesse also leads our firm’s ongoing efforts to initiate and draft new laws, regulations and procedures that are intended to provide for the protection and advocacy of taxpayers. He is credited with initiating and leading the effort to establish standard of proof guidelines for California’s audit staff, serving as the principal author of the published guidelines.

Jesse graduated third in his class at Lincoln Law School of Sacramento and with honors from San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance.