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On-Demand Sales Tax Calculation Service Now Integrates With ACCPAC Advantage Series

Avalara’s Innovative AvaTax ST Sales Tax Solution Offers Instant Answers To Key Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

Bainbridge Island, Washington – February 22, 2005: Avalara, Inc., the first on-demand sales tax calculation service to serve small and medium businesses with integrated ERP solutions, today announced the release of AvaTax ST sales tax calculation service for Best SoftwareÒ’s award-winning ACCPAC Advantage Series™ accounting system.
 
“AvaTax ST now works behind the scenes in ACCPAC Advantage Series to perform critical jurisdiction research and tax calculation for each of the more than 8,000 sales taxing jurisdictions in the US,” according to Rory Rawlings, President and Founder of Avalara.  “This allows end-users to ensure total tax compliance, and create remittance reports, saving hours of businesses’ valuable time and helping them to avoid the cost and nuisance of sales tax audits.”

“ACCPAC Advantage Series is well-respected by CPAs serving the SMB market – it is one of their most often recommended solutions,” he added.  “The AvaTax ST Client for ACCPAC Advantage Series extends our market-exclusive AvaTax ST solution to an exciting new group of customers.  AvaTax ST gives the tens of thousands of ACCPAC Advantage Series end-users the easiest, most accurate and affordable way to calculate and report their sales tax."

“AvaTax ST is a stellar example of the evolution of web-service technology,” Jared Vogt, Chairman and CEO of Avalara noted. “Web-service solutions, such as AvaTax ST, offer small and mid-sized businesses flexible, on-demand services at a fraction of the price of purchasing and maintaining software in-house.  AvaTax ST inexpensively and seamlessly eliminates the burden of sales tax compliance issues – while dramatically reducing audit risk.  Linked to the end-user’s core accounting system, AvaTax ST eliminates data entry, research, inaccuracies, and reporting from multiple sources of data at remittance time.

“For small and mid-sized businesses, we eliminate the whole bag of worries that comes with selling products and services across jurisdictional boundaries,” Vogt said.  “Our clients never have to deal with sales tax again.  And why should they?  It’s a cost to their business that has no strategic value other than fulfillment of a statutory requirement, and we eliminate that cost – replacing it with a cost-saving benefit that drops directly to the bottom line.”  Monthly transaction prices for AvaTax ST for ACCPAC Advantage Series start at $99.95 per month. 

About AvaTax ST
AvaTax ST is committed to delivering best practices in sales and use tax compliance, improved internal controls, and simply the best end-user experience.
AvaTax ST currently integrates with more third party financial packages than any other sales and use tax solution.  Products include AvaTax ST for Best Software’s ACCPAC Advantage Series, and MAS 90® and MAS 200® accounting systems, Microsoft’s Great Plains, MS eCommerce server systems, and Scala, among others.  Available through resellers internationally, AvaTax ST is priced on a scalable fee structure, to accommodate any size business.  While AvaTax ST is offered directly to end-users, it is primarily sold through established, authorized Best Software®/ACCPAC® Solution Providers.
About Avalara
Headquartered on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Washington, Avalara is changing the sales and use tax landscape by delivering innovative and affordable solutions. Led by a team of industry experts in sales and use tax, and security and information technology, Avalara's goal is to provide the easiest, most accurate and affordable way for any sized company to address all statutory sales and use taxes requirements.

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