Avalara – Microsoft’s SaaS Partner of the Year for 2010 – is transforming the sales and use tax compliance process for businesses of all sizes. With point-and-click ease, Avalara provides the fastest, easiest, most accurate and affordable way for companies to address their statutory tax requirements. Avalara is the industry’s most trusted provider of sales and use tax solutions, serving more than 25,000 licensed users located throughout the US, Canada, and abroad, delivering more than 300 million sales tax transactions, and filing and remitting more than $10 billion in sales & use tax collections per year.
- Accuracy:Incorrect sales tax calculations could cost you an audit. AvaTax is your in-house, seasoned tax professional. It has the most comprehensive jurisdictional assignment capabilities, extensive sales tax research and the most up-to-date rates and boundary information available.
- Speed: AvaTax quickly applies sales tax calculations in the background as the transaction is taking place via a secure, encrypted Internet connection. AvaTax calculates sales tax in less than a second without disrupting the existing workflow.
- Reports: AvaTax offers a crucial component to sales tax compliance: detailed, on-demand reports provide you quick access to the information needed to prepare and submit sales tax returns. You can easily and quickly generate reports, which can be exported to the file format that works best for you.
- Rules and Regulations: Taxes are complicated. The calculation of sales tax is based on more than just a simple sales tax rate. Your company’s nexus—its physical presence within a state or jurisdiction—as well as product or service taxability rules, will impact whether or not you’re required to collect sales tax. That’s why AvaTax provides the ability to easily manage nexus and taxability.
- Ease: With a few quick steps, you can quickly complete the set-up process and immediately begin saving time and money with powerful sales tax automation. With automated updates, Avalara researches and maintains the most current taxation statutes and tax rates—so you never have to make a tax rate decision again.
AvaFile
Save time and resources by using a single solution, integrated into your financial application to submit one remittance. Let Avalara handle all filing and payments for you. Avalara not only takes care of the forms you need for each jurisdiction where you have nexus, but also remits the liability on your behalf. Whether the tax region in which you owe accepts traditional or electronic filing, be certain an accurate return will be filed for you in the correct format and at the correct time.
AvaCert
AvaCert raises the bar on accuracy and efficiency in managing sales and use tax exemption certificates and significantly reduces time spent requesting, collecting and managing certificates. Its electronically generated certificates can virtually eliminate the hassles and costs of this cumbersome process.
- Tax Services: Avalara provides a full complement of outsourced professional tax services, ranging from registrations, nexus studies, process advice, risk assessment, and audit defense.
- Streamlined Sales Tax: The Streamlined Sales Tax Project* is an effort created by state governments to simplify and modernize sales and use tax collection and administration. Avalara is one of only six Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement certified service providers. For more information, visit www.avalara.com/Streamlined-Sales-Tax.