SVA Consulting, LLC and Avalara Form Partnership Alliance to Better Serve Small and Medium-Sized
Businesses in the Midwestern Market
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Washington, July 20, 2005 – Avalara, the Web-service based sales tax solution provider, has forged an alliance with SVA Consulting, LLC in Madison, WI. "Small and medium businesses need a better, more affordable and accessible way to calculate sales and use tax for the more than 8,000 distinct U.S. taxing jurisdictions – and we are delivering on those needs with AvaTax ST™," explained Jared Vogt, Avalara's CEO. "To help us reach these businesses, SVA Consulting has joined Avalara as our regional Business Partner."
AvaTax ST is currently integrated with more of the SMB market's most popular accounting systems serving more North American businesses than any other sales tax solution: integrations include Intuit’s Quickbooks, Microsoft's Great Plains, Navision, Small Business Financials, iScala, MAS 90® and MAS 200®, ACCPAC Advantage Series™, and others.
“SVA Consulting, LLC provides a unique consulting approach, combining high-tech software and IT support services for small and medium-sized businesses in the Midwest looking to be competitive in today’s marketplace,” according to Vogt. “SVA Consulting is well-positioned in the Midwest to help both their client firms and other small to mid-sized businesses in implementing Avalara’s AvaTax ST.”
“We’re excited to become part of Avalara’s network of business partners,” according to Tanya Kratzer, Customer Service Manager. “We recognize that many of our clients have faced the challenge of determining sales and use taxes for a growing number of taxing jurisdictions – and until now, there were no low-cost, highly reliable technology solutions.”
"AvaTax ST is an affordable alternative to expensive software installations – and time-consuming updates – or worse, to the error-prone, manual system of sales tax calculation many businesses now employ," Vogt pointed out. "When taking on sales tax calculations internally, SVA Consulting’s business clients have the harrying task of assigning one or several of the more-than-8000 U.S. tax jurisdictions to a customer's location and grouping all applicable rates to the customer. On top of that, these businesses – and businesses throughout North America – have the responsibility to track and apply the hundreds of new sales tax law changes that are enacted in the U.S. market each year.
"Other factors," Vogt noted, "such as product taxability, exemptions, amnesties and a myriad of statutory regulations, which vary state-by-state, must also be taken into account. The more states in which a business has a legal presence, the more complex it becomes. Savings generated by replacing such a time-intensive, manual updating system with a Web-service solution adds directly to the bottom line."
"With years of experience developing and implementing cost-effective business solutions for their clients in United States, SVA Consulting brings to Avalara a proven record of success in creating value for end-user businesses and developing business technology solutions to their most challenging needs," according to Kurt Kauper, Avalara's Regional Business Manager. "As our business partner, SVA Consulting is responsible for working directly with clients and prospective end-users – to ensure that their clients – and ours – receive the on-demand sales tax calculation services they need to maximize their own business opportunities."
About AvaTax ST™
AvaTax ST is an SMB market-leading, Web-service-based sales tax solution that that instantly and accurately calculates sales tax for clients in any of the more than 8,000 taxing jurisdictions in the U.S.; provides detailed, real-time reporting; and automatically generates pre-populated returns. AvaTax ST comes integrated with the most popular SMB financial applications serving more businesses any other solution on the market today, including Intuit’s QuickBooks, Sage Software’s
MAS 90®, MAS 200® and ACCPAC Advantage Series™, Epicor’s iScala, and Great Plains, Navision®, MS Small Business Financials and eCommerce Server from Microsoft Business Solutions. Additionally, with AvaTax On-Demand™ a developer can integrate Avalara’s sales tax Web service with any e-commerce, third party or custom-build solution with use of a comprehensive Software Developer’s Kit (SDK).
About Avalara
Headquartered on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Washington, Avalara is changing the sales and use tax landscape by delivering innovative and affordable solutions to small and medium businesses. Led by a team of industry experts in sales and use tax, and security and information technology, Avalara is focused on providing the easiest, most accurate and affordable way for businesses to address all their statutory sales and use tax requirements. Additional news and information is available at www.avalara.com
To schedule an interview with Avalara CEO Jared Vogt, or Business Development Manager Kurt Kauper, or SVA Consulting, please call Ned Barnett – 702-696-1200 or email Ned at ned@barnettmarcom.com
For Avalara
Ned Barnett, 702-696-1200
email: Ned@barnettmarcom.com
For SVA Consulting, LLC
Robin Reicosky, 608-826-2372
reicoskyr@svaconsulting.com
