1) Free up your staff to focus on your business.

The right service should provide more than software to automate processes for you, but also service from a team of multi-disciplinary tax experts. 

2) Provide assistance from a tax expert to get you activated quickly and accurately.

Sales and use tax is a burden and any solution you purchase should enable you to quickly refocus on your business.  Inaccurate set up of your systems will only automate your errors. 

3) Deliver up dated SAS 70 certified research and real-time calculation in your business systems.

There were over a thousand tax rate changes across 13,253 tax authorities last year and keeping up with this is a burden.  Your sales and use tax solution should be able to provide accurate rates that are SAS 70 certified.

4) Automate returns preparation and provide review by tax experts.

Solutions that automate the returns preparation can reduce time spent on returns each month but they don’t alleviate senior finance staff from reviewing these returns for accuracy.  Look for a solution that delivers automated returns that are reviewed by tax experts so you can save time each month.   

5) Interpret complex product taxability laws for you.

Achieving accurate compliance can not happen without a solid understanding of product taxability rules. Product rules must be researched and interpreted by someone with tax expertise – a time consuming activity that should be supported by a tax partner that is an expert. 

6) Deliver you confidence in your compliance with SAS 70 Type II certified processes.

It is important to look for a partner that has proven success and SAS 70 Type II certification providing third party validation of their service.

*Tallman Insights, 2006