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Sales Tax Management
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Bainbridge Island, WA United States
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435 Ericksen Ave NE
Suite 250
Suite 250
Phone
206-826-4900
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About Avalara
Business Description
Avalara is headquartered on Bainbridge Island in Washington state and has additional offices within the US and worldwide. The company has offered automated, end-to-end sales tax compliance solutions to businesses since 2004. With the most accurate, up-to-date data of more than 12,500 taxing regions in North America, Avalara’s web-based, fully automated ‘Software-as-a-Service’ solution, provides simple, accurate, affordable, compliant and streamlined management of all phases of the sales tax process including calculation, reporting, filing, and payment remittance.
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What Inspired My Business
In 1999, business visionary Rory Rawlings was searching for a way to unleash his entrepreneurial spirit. Calling on his expertise as a CPA, software developer and integrator of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, he founded Advantage Solutions, Inc., an ERP implementation and development consulting company. While striving to meet his clients’ needs, Rory quickly discovered that many of them lacked an efficient and affordable way to calculate, manage and remit sales and use taxes. Instead, they were forced to rely on cumbersome, time-consuming and often error-prone manual processes.
At the time, plenty of businesses were using services to automate their payroll processes, but the concept of doing the same for calculating and processing sales taxes simply didn’t exist. Rory had a vision: Take advantage of Internet technologies to provide sales tax automation solutions to small and medium-sized businesses that couldn’t afford the expensive enterprise solutions available at the time.
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AvaTax is a patented, web-based, fully automated sales tax management and compliance solution offered as “Software-as-a-Service’ via the web. The transaction based service model and seamless integration into any financial application provides access to all jurisdiction assignments and real-time sales tax calculations. Also it allows users to build custom rules on taxability and manage exemption certificates.
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