Avalara: Make taxes less taxing.
Avalara stands out as a leader in simplifying tax compliance through its comprehensive automation solutions, which not only ensure accurate tac calculations and streamlined management of exemption certificates, licenses, and tax content but also provide businesses with the necessary tools to stay compliant and make informed decisions in the face of constantly evolving tax laws and regulations.
Avalara Products
AvaTax
Delivers sales and use tax calculations within existing business applications at the time of checkout or billing — in real time.
Avalara Returns
Prepares and files sales and uses tax returns with a higher degree of accuracy than doing it alone – and in a fraction of the time.
Avalara Exemption Certificate Management
Optimize exemption compliance, track certificates easily, and enhance purchase experiences while reducing operational challenges.
Avalara Business Licenses
Streamline your business licensing needs with tailored solutions for nationwide sales tax registration, licensing assessment, and easy portfolio management options.
ERP Integration Partners
Acumatica Cloud ERP
Avalara sales tax automation software is fully integrated with Acumatica and helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including sales and use, VAT, excise, communications, and other tax types.
Sage Intacct
Right through your own ERP, Avalara with Sage Intacct allows you to measure rates, file returns, handle exemption certificates, and more. See how Avalara’s integration with Sage Intacct does the hard work so organizations don’t have to.
Sage 100
With Avalara for Sage 100, businesses can automate tax reporting and filing processes, generating accurate tax returns that comply with local tax regulations. Streamline tax compliance processes, minimize manual errors, and focus on core operations.
Tax Types Avalara Tackles
Avalara’s flexible platform combines technology and tax expertise to help businesses of all sizes with the following tax types
Sale & 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 businesses if they’re getting it wrong.
Let AvaTax calculate sales tax for every business transactions based on jurisdiction laws and rules, without bogging down IT or finance teams.
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.
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 users 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 — Avalara can help optimize processes and reduce excise tax risk.
communications tax
VoIP, Streaming IoT
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 helps cut through the red tape to do tax compliance right.
Goods & Services tax
Manufacturing, Logistics, Retail, eCommerce
Goods and services tax compliance suite so users can stay focused on their business.
From manufacturing, pharmaceutical, logistics, retail, e-commerce – businesses who want automated Goods and Services Tax compliance, Avalara is here to help.
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.
Businesses face a host of tax compliance challenges when they run a hotel or rent out a vacation home. Let Avalara help, with solutions and services that manage licenses, calculate tax, prepare and file returns, and more.
Avalara Benefits
vast product & Tax database
Seamless Continuous Updates
over 700 integrations
tax content & Rules
Robust & flexible API
Cutting-Edge Automation Technology
Flexible Software for Business Adaptation
ERP Software Integration & Connectivity
reliable & secure infrastructure
extensive prebuilt integrations & API
Why Should You Automate Tax Compliance?
Reduce Costs & Strain
Tax professionals without automation often find themselves overwhelmed by numerous tasks that could be delegated, leading to inefficiencies and potential errors in tax management. Time spent on tax-related activities detracts from focusing on other critical aspects of the business, such as strategic planning, and growth initiatives, hindering overall productivity and success.
Mitigate Tax Exposure
As government regulations grow more intricate and expansive, with fluctuating rates, product taxability rules, and tax laws, businesses face escalating risks without automation. By utilizing a cloud-based tax engine that keeps rates and rules current, automated tax software can significantly enhance the accuracy of tax compliance.
Optimize your current tech and systems
Businesses automate operations with ERPs, e-commerce platforms, and apps. Improve investments by integrating tax software into these systems. Avalara offers seamless integration with popular solutions or an open API for centralized tax compliance management.
Grow without tax headaches
Company growth can bring more tax challenges, especially when expanding into new markets or internationally, where diverse tax regulations like VAT and GST differ from U.S. sales tax practices, necessitating a thorough understanding of each country's unique tax rules.
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
