AvaTax ST
The fastest, easiest, most accurate
and affordable way to calculate and
file sales and use taxes.
Overview
• Intro to avalara
• Tax Market Overview and Issues
• AvaTax ST- Product and Pricing
Intro to avalara
• Founded in 1999 by a world leading team of Tax,
Accounting, and Security Experts.
• Focused on creating a sales tax engine that anyone
can use, and everyone will want.
Vision
• Perfect for Small and Medium-sized business
• Beats manual methods by miles
No Down Time,
and Help Desk
issues are over
• No installed software or maintenance
• Easy to deploy because there’s nothing to install
AvaTax ST
• AvaTax automatically calculates sales and use tax, and
generates reports for any jurisdiction in the U.S. and Canada.
• Enterprise class technology at a price everyone can afford.
• Any company of any size can realize the cost saving benefits.
• AvaTax ST is the easiest, most accurate and affordable way to
calculate and report sales and use taxes.
Customer Priorities
Priorities should evolve as technology improves
Effort and Investment
•Customer Set-up
•Tax Schedule and Detail Set-up Traditional Tax
•Tax Detail Maintenance Recording just does
•Audit Risk not cut it anymore
•Filing
•Real-time Address Validation •Accurate Tax Info
•Auto Jurisdiction Setup w/zip + 4 •Up to Date Records
•No more hassle w/tax tables •Saves Time and Money
•Ease Of Filing and Reduced Audit Risks •Audit Protection !!!
A few years ago this could not have existed!
AvaTax ST
Creates ONE schedule for all your customers.
Address Validation determines the correct rate for customer transactions.
Tax table maintenance is a thing of the past. NO MORE ERRORS!!
ZIP +Four
The AvaTax ST Solution
• Easier and more accurate.
– No more research or having to choose the right
jurisdiction.
With One Simple Click ……
-Hundreds of hours of research go to zero hours.
-No more tax details and schedules
-Thousands of jurisdictions and changes are
updated instantly
-Addresses are validated and corrected.
Infinitely easier
Maintain tax rates on
regular basis.
Constant research
and update of tax
schedules.
Scaleable pricing
makes AaTax ST a Research goes
good investment away, we do not
regardless of populate your
business size or tables, you read
ours.
transaction volume.
Problem!! The Auditor just came in the door !
Protects you in an
audit. Complete
details for every
transaction stored
and instantly
available for
reporting.
The AvaTax ST Advantage
Traditional Manual Systems AvaTax
* Time Consuming Provides Validation certified by the USPS
Address Verification * Riddled with Data Entry Errors
* Done by Internal Resources Automatic-We do the hard work for you
Research * Expensive Subscription Services required for
jurisdiction updates
*Manual configuration and changes to tax Automatic-We maintain it for you
Maintaining Rate Changes schedules, details and customers
*Accurately picking the correct tax schedule Automatic-We determine the exact
Customer Setup and Ongoing from thousands jurisdiction based on the street address
Maintenance * Requires constant maintenance because (zip+4)
of jurisdictional changes
*Manually have to combine multiple reports Real Time reporting and Excel Exporting
Reporting and Analysis with incomplete data capabilities
Filing Time and Effort * Long and Difficult at best Easy to use tax filing reporting
* Most ERP systems do not capture audit trails Provides a complete detail of an Audit Trail
Audit Trail or details
* Internal Resource Costs Drastically reduced with
* External Resource Costs * Complete Audit Trails
* Legal Costs, Penalties, Re-Imbursements * Correct Jurisdictions based on CASS
Audit Costs due to * Loss of Productivity certified address validation
inaccuracies and incomplete * Cross Jurisdictional Mistakes * Real-Time jurisdiction assignment based on
audit records * Incorrect Address and Tax Schedules street address.
* Incomplete Customer Audit Trail
AvaTax ST Pricing
Scalable and
transaction based to fit
your business
Questions?