Avalara Compliance Solutions

Avalara is transforming the sales and use tax compliance process for businesses of all sizes by delivering advanced technology solutions that provide the fastest, easiest, and most accurate and affordable way for companies to address their statutory tax requirements. Chosen by nearly 10,000 businesses throughout the U.S., Canada, and abroad, and a trusted provider of over 100 million sales tax calculations annually, Avalara is the recognized leader in Web-based sales tax services and solutions. Avalara files more than 240,000 sales tax returns and remits over $10 billion in sales tax filings per year. Avalara services connect seamlessly with most major financial and ERP applications including Intuit QuickBooks, as well as 85 available integrations which are recommended by more than 2,000 software resellers and CPAs.

Product Overview

Calculation and Reporting:

AvaTax is a transaction-based service model, offering seamless integration into business applications, while providing access to jurisdiction assignments and real-time sales tax calculations. Additionally, AvaTax offers easy integration into financial and e-commerce applications, and is fully enabled with nexus, taxability rules, reporting functions, and filing profiles unique to businesses.

AvaTax Pro version is designed for businesses that have complex tax rules in many jurisdictions. Pro provides customers with access to over 100,000 taxability rules as well as 2,400 predefined product and service categories that can easily be mapped to inventory items. AvaTax Basic version is for businesses that sell a limited number of products or services, that have simple tax rules, and are taxed the same in all locations.

Returns and Remittance:

AvaFile is a Web-based tax return service that automates the cumbersome process of filing sales tax returns and frees accounting resources for more productive, revenue-generating activities. AvaFile integrates into the AvaTax sales tax calculation module to provide completely automated, end-to-end sales tax compliance. Pulling sales and use tax data directly from the AvaTax database, AvaFile allows tax departments to view, modify, and approve returns for submission to any tax jurisdiction in North America.

AvaFile not only takes care of the forms you need for each jurisdiction in which you have nexus, but also remits the liability on your behalf. Whether the taxing authority accepts traditional or electronic filing, AvaFile ensures that returns and remittances will be received by the states at the correct time and in the correct format.

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