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Avalara's Accountants Advantage Program


Avalara is the leading provider of sales and use tax management solutions, delivering a broad range of calculation and compliance solutions that removes the tedious work and complexities involved with calculating, reporting, returning, and remitting transactional tax. Avalara's AvaTax is fully integrated with Intuit QuickBooks as a Gold Developer and is an SMB market-leading, Web-based, fully automated sales tax management and compliance solution offered as "Software-as-a-Service" via the Web. AvaTax accurately provides detailed, real-time reporting and automatically generates pre-populated sales tax returns. The transaction-based service model and seamless integration into any financial application provides access to all jurisdiction assignments and real-time sales tax calculations.

Avalara's Accountants Advantage Program (AAP) for Sleeter Group Consultants

Avalara's Accountants Advantage Program (AAP) is where current Sleeter Consultants register for access to an exclusive Avalara partnership level that includes revenue sharing opportunities. Avalara has made it extremely easy for your firm to solve your clients' sales tax issues and add profitable billable sales tax engagements. AAP helps your firm provide end-to-end sales tax services without the low-margin and tediousness that is usually associated with providing sales tax services.

AAP is designed to help expand your service offerings while building revenue for your firm, saving you the substantial amount of time and money it takes to comply with transactional tax requirements.

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Providing End-To-End Sales Tax Compliance Services Is Easy As 1-2-3

  1. Sales tax rate calculation with AvaTax Calc
    • Manage for client, recommend, or resell
    • Add billable engagements
    • Calculation set up
    • Training
    • Reporting
    • Nexus and taxability studies
  2. Exemption certificate collection and management with AvaTax Certs
    • Manage for client, recommend, or resell
    • Add certificate collection and management billable engagements
  3. Sales tax returns preparation, filing and remittance with AvaTax Returns
    • Approve returns and filings for client or recommend
    • Add return set-up and reporting to billable engagements

Avalara's AAP Membership Features

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Formal Partnership: AAP membership enables your business to reach a new Avalara partnership level that includes revenue sharing opportunities. While growing your firm's offerings, Sleeter Consultants will have the added knowledge to recommend Avalara products to clients, thus creating a new revenue stream for your business.

Expanded Services: Your firm will have the ability to recommend solutions to your clients, ultimately reducing their exposure to audits, increasing their reliance on your services, and providing greater peace-of-mind. Additionally, you will be able to save your firm and your QuickBooks clients on sales tax compliance issues.

Superior Training and Support: AAP members have access to product training that will increase productivity while helping your organization achieve transactional tax compliance. Whether you're an experienced tax professional or are managing sales tax in QuickBooks for the first time, our array of product training offerings can provide you with the information you need.

Client Retention: Successful business owners know that offering a multitude of services enables them to effectively meet their clients' needs. By expanding the sales and use tax knowledge and capabilities of your business, Avalara is helping you maintain your current client base while paving the way for new business in the future.

Discounts for Your Clients

  • AvaTax Calc: 20% off activation fee and first year service
  • AvaTax Certs: 20% off activation fee and first year service
  • AvaTax Returns: 20% off activation fee

Revenue Opportunities for Your Firm

  • 20% commission on AvaTax Calc and AvaTax Certs, first year net revenue when reselling to clients

Upgrade to AAP Pro and Receive Additional Benefits

  • AvaTax Calc Client Management: Firm manages transactions for client at a cost of $400/year per client for up to 2,000 transactions each per year. Client fee determined by firm.
  • AvaTax Returns Client Management: Firm approves clients' sales tax returns at cost of $22.50/return. Client fee determined by firm.
  • AvaTax Certs Client Management: Firm collects and manages exemption certificates for client at a cost of $350/year per client for up to 2,500 certificates (does not include fax fee). Client fee determined by firm.
  • TrustFile: Discounts for each additional five tax IDs per state.