Vann Vandervoort, CMI

Vann Vandervoort, CMI is a Principal at Merit Advisors. He has over 35 years of property tax management experience, and has represented all types of real and personal property in the commercial, industrial and oil and gas sectors.

Vann has steadily advanced throughout the course of his career, serving in positions from Property Tax Agent with Valero in 1986 to Manager of Property Taxes for Coastal Corporation and El Paso Corporation. He partnered with Jimmy G. Myska in 2005 to form the oil and gas property tax consulting firm Myska and Vandervoort, LLC. In 2016, that firm merged with Stancil Property Tax , which was acquired by Merit in 2022.

Vann’s successful career has made him one of the most highly respected oil and gas property tax management experts in the country. He is also a consulting expert for several law firms in the field of property tax litigation.

Vann graduated from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi with a Bachelor of Science in Geology. He is a Certified Member of the nationally recognized Institute of Property Taxation as well as a Licensed Senior Property Tax Consultant, and he has served on various committees of the Texas Oil & Gas Association.

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