Global Tax Compliance in Oracle Cloud ERP

BENEFITS

Automate global tax content, calculation, and reporting for improved scalability, accuracy, and control.

Faster time to value

Turnkey touchless activation of tax content for 200+ countries and territories embedded in Oracle Cloud ERP reduces setup complexity for each entity.

Future-proofed

Automates consumer use tax compliance at scale. It uses real-time data and AI to determine product taxability, detect vendor sales tax errors, self-assess use tax, and allocate tax across jurisdictions — all from one centralized platform that integrates with most purchasing systems.

Enterprise-grade performance

Real-time, high-volume processing with built-in failover helps ensure reliable operations across enterprise environments.

Proactive testing automation

Delivers automated VAT calculation for global sales and purchasing transactions. The solution uses AI to assign country-specific rates in real time, helping businesses apply the correct VAT treatment, reduce errors, and prepare for cross-border expansion. AvaTax for VAT integrates with most business systems, supports 190+ countries, and enables compliance with complex VAT rules at scale.

Built-in risk control

Integrated dashboards and transaction logs deliver real-time diagnostics, empowering teams to resolve issues without Oracle service requests.

Lower cost of ownership

Exclusive Oracle product bundles and cloud-native automation cut costs, reduce reliance on tax experts, and decrease manual updates and legacy system overhead.

How it works

Next-generation cloud compliance solution

Activation
Compliance
TaaS
Diagnostics
Architecture

Embedded

Streamline implementation and automated setup from a centralized page built for enterprise-grade tax functionality.

Turnkey

Rapidly activate global tax content and core configuration within Oracle Cloud ERP allowing your implementation team to focus on the configuration required to meet the needs of your enterprise.

Global coverage

Automated tax determination coverage to support tax calculation in 200+ countries and territories based on geographic business operations and legislations.

Tax content

Comprehensive, regularly updated geography content and structured tax content fuel every calculation to determine taxability and apply more accurate rates for millions of products and services.

Tax calculation

Avalara automates sales and use tax with rooftop accuracy, GST and VAT calculations, as well as specialty tax types and industry-specific functional taxes with a single solution.

Tax reporting

Advanced reporting and returns services provide a complete tax compliance solution, decreasing risk and strengthening governance to meet global obligations.

Quarterly SOAK testing

Proactively test performance with Oracle’s SOAK testing program to identify any key issues that need to be addressed.

Data-driven

Automation framework uses realistic test data populated in a convenient spreadsheet format for ease of access.

Automated

Test scripts are automatically executed as an iterative service in full alignment with new Oracle Cloud ERP quarterly releases and patches as well as on demand when needed.

Comprehensive

Test library of over 390 scenarios provides the flexibility to use variable criteria and parameters to accommodate unique test scenarios.

Risk mitigation

Full transaction visibility with log and payload files increase speed of problem resolution.

Dashboard

The transaction analysis dashboard within the platform tracks every transaction within your Oracle Cloud ERP environments (Non-Production and Production)

Scalable

Avalara Global Unified Platform handles API calls with thousands of line items in both real-time and batch transaction processing.

Secure

Single sign-on, security authentication, and data encryption are enabled within Oracle B2B platform.

Reliable

The Avalara Global Unified Platform combined with the Avalara AvaTax platform helps ensure efficient global tax compliance, empowering enterprise businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.

Integrated global solutions

Avalara AvaTax

AvaTax is the global tax engine at the heart of our AI-powered compliance platform. It delivers highly accurate, real-time tax calculations for multiple tax types (U.S. sales and use tax, VAT, and industry-specific taxes) across city, county, state, federal, and international jurisdictions.

Avalara AvaTax for Accounts Payable

Avalara AvaTax Cross-Border

Gain access to a one-stop shop for end-to-end international trade compliance. Avalara Cross-Border offers a suite of purpose-built products designed to calculate and estimate customs duties and import taxes in real time; automate the assignment and management of HS, HTS, and schedule B codes; and help businesses navigate global trade restrictions. Avalara Item Classification offers HS code support for over 180 countries.

Avalara AvaTax for VAT

Avalara Exemption Certification Management (ECM)

Streamline exemption certificate management to increase efficiency, save time, and reduce risk. ECM automates the process of collecting, storing, and validating exemption certificates for businesses of any size. ECM managed over 51 million documents and certificates in 2024.

Avalara E-Invoicing and Live Reporting

Simplify the process of complying with vastly complex e-invoicing requirements. Avalara E-Invoicing and Live Reporting provides global compliance and coverage through a single application.

Avalara for Communications

Automates tax calculation, filing, and remittance for telecom, VoIP, streaming, and IoT. With built-in AI logic and regular content updates, it manages complex communications tax rules across thousands of jurisdictions — helping reduce risk and ensure accuracy.

Avalara Returns

Offload the hassle of returns preparation, filing, remittance, and notice management (for U.S. sales and use tax or VAT). Our solution saves time, reduces costs, and ensures greater accuracy for businesses of any size in any industry. Avalara Returns processed and filed more than 6 million returns in 2024.

Avalara VAT Returns and Reporting

Avalara VAT Returns automates preparation, filing, and remittance of VAT in 49 countries. The solution validates and files data based on local rules; supports real-time reporting, OSS/IOSS, and SAF-T; and uses AI to improve accuracy and reduce compliance risk across global operations.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently asked questions

Avalara AvaTax is an advanced solution that uses geolocation and address verification to calculate sales tax down to a specific address, accounting for multiple tax jurisdictions in a single ZIP code, complex tax tiers, and more. If you need to calculate tax on international transactions, AvaTax offers an option for that too. Avalara also has solutions to prepare and file your returns as well as easily manage exemption certificates in the cloud, all of which are integrated with AvaTax.

No. Turnkey Tax Activation integrates and automates the core commoditized configuration setup. Implementation services are required to build the customization needed for your enterprise.

The Oracle Avalara Global Indirect Tax Cloud Service and Oracle Avalara North America Tax Returns Cloud Service are on the Oracle Cloud ERP pricelist and can easily be added in your Oracle contract.

For all other compliance solutions, Avalara provides a 12-month agreement that you can pay annually or in monthly installments. Agreements automatically renew at the end of each term, but you can cancel before your new term begins, according to our terms.

Usage is measured annually. If your plan allows for calculations on 500 transactions per year, for example, you can use those transactions anytime during your annual subscription term. Transactions don’t roll over and must be used within the subscription term in which they’re purchased.

Yes, Enterprise Support with a dedicated Oracle support team is included within the Oracle Avalara Global Indirect Tax Cloud Service.

Oracle Cloud ERP customers have direct access to log issues in a dedicated Avalara customer support portal for Oracle Cloud ERP and manage resolution of all issues with a dedicated Avalara technical team without the need for Oracle service requests.

You’ll also have unlimited access to the Avalara Knowledge Center 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Advanced support packages are available for purchase if not purchasing the Oracle Avalara Global Indirect Tax Cloud Service.

Yes, but for the most reliable rates, Avalara needs an accurate and complete address, or the latitude and longitude (U.S. only), to calculate tax.

Yes, AvaTax calculates sales tax on credit memos.

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Next-generation global indirect tax compliance purpose-built for Oracle Cloud ERP