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Sales Tax Calculations Made Easy For Navision® Users With Web-Service Alternative to Sales Tax Software

Avalara Links Sales Tax Web Service To Microsoft Business Solutions - Navision®

Atlanta, Georgia – October 7, 2005.  Navision users can now automatically calculate sales tax for each transaction, for any of the more than 8,000 North American sales tax jurisdictions, using Avalara’s new edition of AvaTax ST™ for Microsoft Business Solutions – Navision.  This Web-based, on-demand service also automatically creates previously labor-intensive reports and tax returns.  With small and medium businesses facing the constant challenge of minimizing operational tasks to focus on the bottom line, and state authorities taxing more and different kinds of transactions than ever before, AvaTax ST for Navision provides a long-needed service at a price that fits any budget.

Avalara announced the new service for Navision, now shipping, at the Oct 7-8 Navision Directions 2005 conference in  Atlanta, where a “first look” at AvaTax ST for Navision was exhibited. 
“Alongside our existing Microsoft integrations – Great Plains 8.0, 7.5 and 7.0, as well as Microsoft E-Commerce Server – the Navision integration signifies our continued commitment to Microsoft Business Solutions end-users,” according to Jared Vogt, Avalara’s CEO.  “We specifically address their need to deal with sales and use tax accurately, affordably – and with the added convenience of operating within tools they already rely on.”

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® and MAS 200®, ACCPAC International’s Advantage Series™, Epicor’s iScala, and Great Plains, Navision®, and MS Small Business Financials 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

For more information about Avalara, contact:  Ned Barnett, ned@barnettmarcom.com, 702-696-1200