Staying up to date with constantly changing tax laws can be difficult to say the least, gain some insight and direction with Avalara regarding any and all taxes
avalara makes taxes less taxing
Avalara Products
AvaTax
Delivers sales and use tax calculations within your existing business applications at the time of checkout or billing — in real time.
Returns
Prepares and files your sales and use tax returns with a higher degree of accuracy than doing it yourself – and in a fraction of the time.
CertCapture
Automate your exemption process to collect, validate, store, manage, and renew compliance documents in the cloud — securely and at scale.
Sales Tax
Every state has a different application and process for sales tax registration — fill out our form once and the preparation and everything else is handled!
ERP Integration Partners
Tax Types Avalara Tackles
Avalara’s flexible platform combines technology and tax expertise to help businesses of all sizes with the following tax types
Sales & Use Tax
Retail, eCommerce & Manufacturing
Sales tax is hard. There’s always the possibility of changing legislative regulations, new tax rules, or shifts in product taxability. And there’s a big financial risk for your business if you’re getting it wrong.
Let AvaTax calculate sales tax for every one of your business transactions based on jurisdiction laws and rules, without bogging down your IT or finance teams.
Excise Tax
Energy, Fuel, Tobacco, Vape
Grab the keys to automated excise tax calculations, signature-ready returns, efficient exemptions, and streamlined sales and use tax compliance.
Avalara keeps you in the driver’s seat while providing a much smoother ride. Designed for the energy supplier, distributor, retailer, terminal operator, and trader markets — as well as the tobacco and vape industries — we can help optimize processes and reduce excise tax risk.
Lodging Tax
Short-Term Rental, Hotel, B&B
Thousands of rental property owners, property managers, and hotel operators rely on Avalara for hassle-free lodging tax tools.
You face a host of tax compliance challenges when you run a hotel or rent out your vacation home. Let Avalara help, with solutions and services that manage licenses, calculate tax, prepare and file returns, and more.
VAT
Country Guidance & News on VAT
Avalara VATlive offers a wealth of free, up-to-date country guidance and news on VAT and GST from Europe and around the world. It is provided by Avalara, whose SaaS-based VAT, GST and US Sales Tax software, registrations and returns services help businesses around the world reduce the risks and costs of their compliance.
Communications Tax
VoIP, Streaming, loT
Simplify and streamline communications tax calculation, returns, and remittance to help remain compliant in an increasingly challenging industry.
Communications tax now reaches far beyond traditional telecom and cable, to VoIP services, streaming content, and the Internet of Things. Avalara understands the nuances and can help you cut through the red tape to do tax compliance right.
Cross-Border Duties & Tax
Item Classification, Customs Duties, Import Taxes
Getting the duties and taxes right on cross-border sales is critical for your operations and your customers. It’s also highly complex, thanks to customs regulations and a maze of tariff codes (also known as Harmonized System/HS codes).
Avalara’s cross-border solution makes it easier to sell anywhere in the world by automating the process of identifying and mapping tariff codes to your products and by calculating customs duties and import taxes.
Goods & Services Tax (GST)
Manufacturing, Logistics, Retail, eCommerce
Goods and services tax compliance suite so you can stay focused on business.
From manufacturing, pharmaceutical, logistics, retail, e-commerce – businesses who want automated Goods and Services Tax compliance, we are here to help.
What Can Avalara Do For Your Business?
Why Should You Automate Tax Compliance?
Decrease the high cost & drain on your business
Employee time & Expertise are Expensive
Without automation, your tax professionals are probably buried in endless tasks that could be offloaded. Every hour spent on tax management is an hour lost on other (more important) parts of your business.
It would take me three days to research
and categorize just 100 items. Can you imagine how long it would take me to do more than 20,000?
Spreadsheets can lead to guesswork
Reduce tax risk
Government requirements are increasingly complex and vast, as rates, product taxability rules, and tax laws are constantly in flux. Without automation, your business is likely taking on unnecessary risk.
With up-to-date rates and rules maintained by a cloud-based tax engine, automated tax software can increase the accuracy of your tax compliance.
With automation, rate calculations are more accurate, use tax is assessed, returns are filed on time, exemption certificates are up to date and easily accessible, and you’re registered in all the right locations.
We answer with such confidence and authority now; the auditors have moved on to someone else.
Grow and scale without adding tax pain
Expand Your Business, Not Your Tax Department
Company growth can create more tax pain. Entering new markets and adding sales channels, employees, products, and/or services can trigger new obligations to register and file in more locations.
So, too, does expanding into international markets. With global sales come more complicated tax rules and an additional set of tax jurisdictions. Value-added tax (VAT) and goods and services tax (GST) are applied differently than U.S. sales tax. And every country’s tax rules are different.
Automation decreases the tax complexity that often comes with business grow. The effort required to maintain compliance in a few states is vastly different when you do business in most of the U.S. And selling into more countries adds a whole new level of complexity. With automation, it’s easier to scale.
I don’t worry about sales tax at all now.
If we turn on 15 more states tomorrow,
we wouldn’t have to worry about a single thing.
Get more out of your existing technology and systems
Add Tax Compliance To Your Business Applications
You’re likely already automating critical parts of your operations with ERPs, ecommerce platforms, and other business applications. Get more out of your investments by connecting tax software into the systems that power other parts of your business.
Automated tax solutions like Avalara integrate into the most widely used solutions or offer an open API, which allows you to manage your tax compliance within a single dashboard.
We just publicly announced another pending acquisition, and the ability to take in a new revenue stream, port it into Zuora, and immediately be compliant — that scalability is really nice
Manual vs Automated: Sales Tax Compliance
Manual
Automated
Registration
- Research tax laws and obligations (nexus laws)
- Register with individual tax authorities
- Remit registration fees
- Re-register when select registrations expire
- Fill out one form for multiple registrations
- Provide information for a licensing program (once)
- Remit fees or make changes when alerted by software
Calculation
- Visit Department of Revenue websites frequently to track tax rate and taxability rule changes
- Upload rate tables
- Set up jurisdictions and tax codes
- Assign rates
- Build tax schedules
- Manage tax notices
- Make system updates every time a rate, rule, product code, or tax law changes
- Calculate tax rates with rooftop accuracy in real time for all U.S. jurisdictions (13,000+)
- Instantly and automatically account for and apply changes to taxability rates and rules
- Verify SKU-level tax rules for millions of product and service universal product codes (UPC) and thousands of tax code categories.
- Automatically track and account for sales tax holidays and other exemptions
Returns & Reporting
- Determine filing schedules and deadlines for all appropriate tax jurisdictions
- Find, download and fill out the correct forms
- Report and remit the right amount of sales tax owed for each jurisdiction in which you have an obligation to collect has been established
- Keep track of filing dates and deadlines for tax remittance and returns
- Mail or e-file returns on time to avoid late fees or penalties
- Export tax data instantly with auto-populated forms for faster, easier remittance and filing
- Track filing dates and deadlines for on-time payments and filings for every jurisdiction
- Streamline payments to multiple taxing authorities
- Digitally archive and store records for easy retrieval or audit access
Document Management
- Physically store hard copies for every tax exempt customer
- Validate documents at point of sale
- Manually retrieve documents as requested by auditors
- Monitor certificate expirations and request updated documents as needed
- Upload exemption certificates into cloud software
- Access current certificates digitally at the point of sale
- Direct auditors to customized dashboards for document retrieval
Core Avalara Components
- Vast Product & Tax Database
- Reliable & Secure Infrastructure
- Extensive Prebuilt Integrations & API