Paul G. Northup
Deputy Director of Taxation
Colorado
Department of Revenue
Paul Northrup is the Deputy Director of Taxation for the
Colorado Department of Revenue. He has been with the Department of Revenue
for over 10 years. Prior to becoming Deputy Director of Taxation, Paul
served as the Taxation Controller and served on the Project Management Team
during the 5-year GenTax integrated tax system implementation project. As
Deputy Director of Taxation, Paul works with the Taxation Leadership Team to
oversee all aspects of Taxation including income, sales, and marijuana tax
processing, compliance, collections, field audit, criminal tax, systems support,
refund fraud detection, public information and education, and customer
service.
Prior to joining the Department of Revenue, Paul worked for 10
years for Andersen Consulting/Arthur Andersen Business Consulting on large-scale
organizational strategy and system implementation projects. Paul has a
B.S. in Business (Accounting) and an M.S. in Business (Management Information
Systems and Telecommunications) from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
In 2013, Paul led the effort to implement the retail marijuana sales and excise
taxes in the state's tax processing system.