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12 Tips Every Business Should Know About Sales Tax Compliance

Written by Liz Anderson | Wed, Nov 14, 2012

Sales tax calculation and management is complicated.  To help businesses achieve compliance with sales tax management, Avalara sales tax experts have provided 12 sales tax tips your business can implement before 2013 to stay on top of the ever-shifting sales tax landscape and reduce your risk of a negative audit.  Avalara, the developer of AvaTax, offers cloud-based sales tax automation and can help businesses address the complex challenges of calculating sales tax rates, managing exemption certificates, filing returns and remitting payments. 

To learn about 12 sales tax tips every business should implement before 2013, please download the white paper “12 Sales Tax Tips for Small Businesses” from Avalara, or better yet, attend a live webinar to learn more:

Title: The Dark Side of Sales Tax Compliance…12 Things Every Business Should Know
Date: Tuesday, December 4 2012
Time: 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST

Register Today:  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/879049641

Below is a sneak peek on a few of the sales tax tips that will be covered:

  • Determine if you’ve created nexus in any new jurisdictions in the past year. 

Nexus laws vary from state to state and can change from one month to the next. 

  • Make sure you understand taxability of new products you offer.

Not only can taxability differ from one product to the next, but it can also differ state to state.

  • Verify jurisdictions based on exact location, not ZIP code.

It is not unusual to have multiple jurisdictions (and therefore multiple rates) for a given ZIP code.