Amanda Hiller
FTA Board of Trustees Representative, Northeast Region
Acting Tax Commissioner and General Counsel, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance
Amanda Hiller serves as Acting Commissioner and General Counsel of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. She assumed the role of acting commissioner in 2021, and has been general counsel since 2012.
As acting commissioner, Hiller leads a team of 3,800 tax professionals who administer 45 different state and local taxes and collect more than $155 billion in revenues annually.
She has led a drive to make the agency more transparent and responsive to taxpayers, including an agency-wide program to improve the taxpayer experience with clearer communication, enhanced language access and expanded taxpayer rights advocacy. She has also launched a comprehensive effort to modernize New York’s tax operating systems for improved efficiency and greater security of personal data.
Over a 35-year career, Hiller held senior positions in the legislative, judicial and executive branches of New York State government, as well as in the nonprofit sector. She earned her law degree from Albany Law School and a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Oswego.
