>> Reject the cost, risk, and complexity of your traditional system.
Traditional sales and use tax software systems, with their protracted implementations, user and IT training requirements, upgrades, update cycles and ongoing task burdens, take their toll on businesses well beyond the cost of implementation. In the past, accepting these hassles - and their cost - has been thought of as part and parcel of software investments. No more: as a Web service solution, AvaTax delivers all the functionality of enterprise-level sales tax software applications - with none of the hidden costs.
>> Save up to 90% by eliminating hidden costs
AvaTax can result in savings of as much as 90% compared to outmoded, traditional client/server solutions. Why? Because as an on-demand Web service, there is no software or hardware to buy, install or implement, maintain, or upgrade. With AvaTax, you access a professionally-maintained, remotely-updated tax engine, built to serve a multitude of businesses like yours. No overhead, no hassles.
Let's break it down:
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Manual Systems
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AvaTax
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Address Verification:
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Time consuming at customer set-up
- Data entry mistakes - incomplete or incorrect addresses
Data entry mistakes - incomplete or incorrect addresses |
Eliminated - we determine the exact jurisdiction based on the street address (zip+4) at the time of the tax calculation
Provided with validation certified by USPS
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Research:
- Internal Resources - Tax department or Accounting
- Cost of Subscription services for rate and jurisdiction updates & research
- Internal Resources - Tax department or Accounting
- Cost of Subscription services for rate and jurisdiction updates & research
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Eliminated - we do the research for you
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Maintain and update rate changes and jurisdictional boundaries within accounting packages:
- Manual changes to tax schedules, details, and potentially customers
- Manual changes to tax schedules, details, and potentially customers
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Eliminated - we maintain the system for you |
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Customer Setup and Maintenance:
- Accurately picking the correct tax schedule from a list that potentially numbers in the thousands
- Required maintenance due to jurisdictional changes
- Accurately picking the correct tax schedule from a list that potentially numbers in the thousands
- Required maintenance due to jurisdictional changes
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Eliminated - we determine the exact jurisdiction based on the street address (zip+4) at the time of the tax calculation
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Reporting and analysis
- Manual combining of multiple reports with incomplete data to fulfill statutory requirements.
- Manual combining of multiple reports with incomplete data to fulfill statutory requirements.
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Drastically reduced with real time reports for all transactions that can be downloaded to Excel with the click of the mouse.
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Filing time and effort
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Reduced with an easy to use tax filing reports.
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Audit Trail
- Most ERP/accounting packages do not properly capture full audit details.
- Most ERP/accounting packages do not properly capture full audit details.
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Provided in complete detail |
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Audit Costs due to inaccuracies in setup/maintenance and incomplete audit records:
- Internal Resources
- External Resources
- Legal
- Penalties
- Reimbursements
- Loss of Productivity
- Cross Jurisdictional Mistakes
- Incorrectly assigning the wrong tax schedule to the customer address
- Incomplete Customer Exemption audit trail
- Internal Resources
- External Resources
- Legal
- Penalties
- Reimbursements
- Loss of Productivity
- Cross Jurisdictional Mistakes
- Incorrectly assigning the wrong tax schedule to the customer address
- Incomplete Customer Exemption audit trail
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Drastically reduced with complete audit records, correctly identifying jurisdiction based on CASS certified address validation, and real time jurisdiction assignment based on street address. |
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Reporting and analysis
- Manual combining of multiple reports with incomplete data to fulfill statutory requirements.
- Manual combining of multiple reports with incomplete data to fulfill statutory requirements.
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Drastically reduced with real time reports for all transactions that can be downloaded to Excel with the click of the mouse.
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Filing time and effort
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Reduced with an easy to use tax filing reports.
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Audit Trail
- Most ERP/accounting packages do not properly capture full audit details.
- Most ERP/accounting packages do not properly capture full audit details.
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Provided in complete detail |
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Audit Costs due to inaccuracies in setup/maintenance and incomplete audit records:
- Internal Resources
- External Resources
- Legal
- Penalties
- Reimbursements
- Loss of Productivity
- Cross Jurisdictional Mistakes
- Incorrectly assigning the wrong tax schedule to the customer address
- Incomplete Customer Exemption audit trail
- Internal Resources
- External Resources
- Legal
- Penalties
- Reimbursements
- Loss of Productivity
- Cross Jurisdictional Mistakes
- Incorrectly assigning the wrong tax schedule to the customer address
- Incomplete Customer Exemption audit trail
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Drastically reduced with complete audit records, correctly identifying jurisdiction based on CASS certified address validation, and real time jurisdiction assignment based on street address. |
