Office of the Vice President for Administration and Finance

Tax Services
Tax Manager
Melissa Henard MBA, CICA

Melissa Henard is the Tax Manager for the West Virginia University Tax Services Unit. She is a licensed Certified Internal Control Auditor (CICA) with a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration both from WVU. Henard has 11 years of auditing experience with Workforce WV as a Tax Examiner for both the Unemployment and Workers’ Compensation Divisions. Her auditing experience focused on the independent contractor versus employee status and the proper treatment of these situations for tax purposes.

Since joining WVU in 2008, she has focused on tax issues and reporting requirements that effect WVU. This focus covers a broad range including employment tax issues such as proper tax withholding from wages, student FICA rules; taxable fringe benefits; and Non-Resident Alien (NRA) tax rules and treaty allowances. Her work, along with the Tax Services Unit team generates multiple and high volume numbers of both Federal and State tax returns and employee and student tax forms required to be filed by WVU. Henard also spends time in research of tax law and pending changes in the effort to ensure compliance by WVU with the tax rules and regulations.

304.293.0467
melissa.henard@mail.wvu.edu

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