Ryan and Sabrix, Inc. Announce Strategic Partnership.
Dallas, Texas December 13, 2007 — Ryan, the leading tax services firm in North America, with the largest transaction tax practice in the United States and Canada, today announced a strategic partnership with Sabrix®, Inc., a leading provider of transaction tax management solutions for global organizations. Ryan and Sabrix have formalized their long-standing relationship with the announcement that Ryan has joined the Sabrix Partner Network and entered into a strategic alliance to jointly offer the highest quality tax consulting and tax automation implementation services to the world’s most prominent global companies. Ryan will help clients implement the Sabrix software by defining and developing efficient processes; building business-relevant tax research; and configuring, implementing, and integrating the solution.
“Our strategic partnership with Sabrix further enhances our ability to deliver outstanding value to our clients through industry leading tax automation solutions,” said G. Brint Ryan, Managing Principal of Ryan. “Our collaboration with Sabrix will permit our clients to take full advantage of the Sabrix Application Suite in combination with our unmatched tax, advisory, and technology expertise.”
“We’re seeing incredible demand for robust international transaction tax solutions,” said Stephen James, Principal at Ryan. “Our partnership with Sabrix enables us to assist our clients in achieving their own unique vision for tax. This alliance and the solutions that result will enable clients to centralize tax determination and calculation, implement better processes and controls, and manage Sarbanes-Oxley requirements to drive greater strategic value for their organizations. We’re looking forward to continued success in the marketplace, and we’re proud to be recognized as a strategic partner of Sabrix.”
“As a leader in the tax advisory and technology industry, Ryan provides an ideal mix of tax consulting expertise and industry best practices that enable companies to deploy the Sabrix Application Suite quickly and realize a measurable return on their investments in a short timeframe,” said Mehrdad Talaifar, VP of the Sabrix Partner Network. “With the current complexities of globalization, combined with the ever-changing landscape in compliance law and tax jurisdictions, there has never been a better time for a company to update its transaction tax management strategy and technology.”
About Ryan
Ryan is the leading tax services firm in North America, with the largest transaction tax practice in the United States and Canada. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the Firm provides a comprehensive range of state, local, federal, and international tax advisory and consulting services on a multi-jurisdictional basis, including audit defense, tax recovery, credits and incentives, tax process improvement and automation, tax appeals, and strategic planning. With a multi-disciplinary team of more than 725 professionals and associates, Ryan serves many of the world’s most prominent Fortune 1000 companies.
About Sabrix
Sabrix, Inc. is a leading provider of transaction tax management for companies of all sizes, enabling finance, tax, and IT professionals to achieve accurate, timely, and cost-effective compliance for sales tax, use tax, Value Added Tax (VAT) excise tax and industry-specific taxes and fees. The Sabrix Application Suite serves global enterprises such as Amazon.com, BASF, Cisco, DTE Energy, IBM, QUALCOMM, Sportsman’s Warehouse, and York International. The Sabrix Application Suite seamlessly connects to all financial applications requiring the determination, calculation, and recording of transaction taxes. Sabrix MTS, an outsourced transaction tax compliance service for small-to medium-size businesses, helps finance departments eliminate the hassle, control their audit exposure, and reduce the total cost of sales tax, use tax, and VAT compliance. For more information, please visit www.sabrix.com.
The company also offers the Sabrix Managed Tax Service™ (MTS) to address the transaction tax requirements of companies of all sizes. Sabrix MTS is an outsourced transaction tax compliance service that helps finance departments eliminate the hassle, control their audit exposure, and reduce the total cost of sales tax, use tax, and VAT compliance. Sabrix MTS seamlessly integrates with a company’s existing accounting and e-commerce systems and, similar to outsourced payroll services, operates as a trusted extension of a company’s finance department to address tax compliance from start to finish: address validation, tax rate maintenance, tax determination and calculation, returns preparation and filing as well as audit research and documentation. For more information, please visit www.sabrix.com.
For press inquiries:
G. Brint Ryan
Managing Principal
Ryan
972.934.0022
brint.ryan@ryanco.com
Kurt Foeller
Foeller Communications
sabrix@foellercom.com