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Avalara for Accountants

Video: Automate clients’ sales and use tax compliance, manage multiple clients, increase efficiency, and reduce risk.

BENEFITS

Expand your service offerings and tax acumen by partnering with Avalara

A complete platform for an end-to-end tax compliance solution

Deliver scalable solutions

Refer clients to Avalara or leverage the Avalara Partner Program to help clients maintain compliance without building an in-house tax team.

Build your tech stack

Enhance your CAS practice with automated tax compliance services to streamline sales tax prep and filing, 1099 and W-9 reporting, licensing, and more.

Grow your practice without adding staff

Cut low-margin manual tasks so your team can focus on high-value client service and strategic growth.

Access scalable trusted services

Use automated solutions to offer reliable, efficient tax services clients can trust.

Boost efficiency and revenue

Save time, reduce errors, and unlock new revenue streams through automation and tech-enabled services.

Access regularly updated tax research

Find reliable tax answers fast with regularly updated research tools — no outsourcing needed.

How it works

Comprehensive coverage for all your clients’ compliance needs

A complete platform for an end-to-end tax compliance solution

Avalara Partner Referral Program

Let Avalara provide tax compliance services for you

Easily refer your clients to Avalara, regardless of your sales tax acumen. Your practice can earn financial incentives while your client works directly with our specialists to help them evaluate and implement our compliance solutions.

Avalara CAS solutions

Avalara in your CAS tech stack

Streamline low-margin, repetitive tasks and free up resources so you can expand into new, value-added services — like compliance and advisory — without increasing your head count. Solutions to consider include:

Sales tax returns preparation and filing
1099, W-9, and related IRS forms
Registrations
Business licenses
Property tax, excise tax, communications tax, and other specialized tax areas

Avalara Returns

End-to-end workflow management and sales tax returns software purpose-built for accountants

Let Avalara take care of the sales tax returns process for you — or leverage Avalara technology to directly support your clients.

Expand services without the need to hire new staff.
Save time with automated end-to-end sales and use tax compliance software.
Gain efficiency and profitability with new or expanded services.

Avalara Tax Research

Trusted and reliable sales tax research data and content subscriptions for accounting practices

Access content subscriptions and sales tax research in plain language provided with accessibility and ease of use in mind. Simplify your sales tax research with a comprehensive source for your sales tax questions.

Get audit defense support with citations to relevant legislation and statutes.
Save time and improve accuracy with a source you can trust.
Gain unlimited access to reliable tax research to help maintain compliance and peace of mind.

Avalara 1099 & W-9

A complete solution for clients’ 1099 tax compliance needs

E-file with the IRS and with states that require additional filing, automatically e-deliver 1099 copies to recipients, and save and transfer data from year to year on behalf of your clients.

Avalara 1099 & W-9 helps service providers offer a complete service:

Flag errors before e-filing documents with the IRS.
Validate recipients’ taxpayer identification numbers (TIN) to reduce B notices.
Recheck previously failed TINs at no additional charge.
Verify the addresses of all your filings.

Avalara Property Tax

Help your clients with property tax compliance

Reduce data entry, increase accuracy, and automate the process of appending property tax documents to tax bill payments.

Access an easy-to-use online dashboard to see upcoming filing deadlines for faster tracking.
Automate workflows that are often done manually with on-premises and internally built systems.
Get location-specific forms, due dates, and other details to allow for accurate and timely filing.
Reduce human error when updating spreadsheets and filling out paperwork.

Avalara License Management

Simplify clients’ license management and make it profitable for your practice

Gain a competitive edge by expanding service offerings to include license management with a recurring revenue model that’s both transparent and profitable.

Perform license research quickly through speedy determination of compliance requirements.
Improve productivity with customizable workflows to manage your license acquisition process.
Manage license renewals using a dynamic calendar and proactive email alerts.

Avalara Implementation Certification

Elevate the implementation process — for you and your clients

For active participants of the Avalara Referral Program:

Avalara implementation certification includes online training, continuing education, and powerful support — all aimed at giving participants the expertise to deliver an optimal customer experience when implementing Avalara AvaTax, Avalara Returns, Avalara Exemption Certificate Management, and more.

CUSTOMER STORIES

See what our accounting partners have to say

A complete platform for an end-to-end tax compliance solution

“Partnering with Avalara allows us to be a one-stop tax compliance shop for our clients.”

—Robin Hall
President and Principal Consultant, VARC Solutions

“If clients want to automate the right way, even if they don’t have that much complexity but have a lot of states or volume, Avalara is the best solution.”

—John Gupta
Principal/State and Local Tax Practice Leader, Eide Bailly

“We used to spend a solid three weeks getting monthly returns done, and we were doing fewer returns back then. We’ve had a 42% increase in returns each year for the past two years, and now we’re done with sales tax returns in a week and a half.”

—Kathy LaMonica
Principal, Rea & Associates

Frequently asked questions

Avalara offers accounting practices purpose-built sales tax compliance solutions. By partnering with Avalara, you can support client needs regardless of your sales tax skills. Either refer clients to us or add Avalara to your tech stack to diversify your revenue streams through automation and scalable services.

Partnering with Avalara equips your practice with the capability to offer advanced tax compliance solutions, expand your service portfolio, and meet rising client demands — all while improving operational efficiency and generating new revenue opportunities.

Avalara provides scalable, highly accurate returns filing services that help you and your clients manage the growing complexity of sales and use tax, including issues related to online sales, multijurisdictional compliance, and evolving tax laws.

Absolutely. Avalara automation solutions help you streamline low-margin, repetitive tasks. This frees up resources so you can expand into new, value-added services — like compliance and advisory — without increasing your head count.

Avalara for Accountants automates sales tax returns preparation, filing, and other time-consuming compliance tasks, including business license management, 1099 reporting, registrations, and specialty tax areas like property tax, excise, VAT and others. This helps save time, increase margins, and allow your team to focus on strategic growth and client service.

Avalara 1099 & W-9 services streamline vendor tax form management by automating the collection, validation, and filing of 1099 and W-9 IRS forms. This helps reduce manual errors, saves time during tax season, and ensures compliance with IRS requirements — making it easier for accounting practices to manage large volumes of vendor data with confidence.

Avalara Tax Research for Accountants provides reliable and continuously updated research tools. These resources present complex indirect tax issues in plain language, with clear citations, allowing your practice to confidently advise clients without relying on expensive third-party services.

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