Founded in 2004, Avalara is the market leading provider of sales tax and compliance automation services in the cloud. Avalara combines the best available content with industry-leading technology to deliver the best possible tax decisions in the industry.

Avalara’s cloud solutions help thousands of customers stay focused on their core businesses by providing automated end to end compliance services including sales and use tax calculation, exemption certificate management, filing and remittance, and a broad array of related services.

Avalara built its technology platform and extensive user base using internal expertise and the strategic acquisition of industry leading organizations, technologies, and personnel. Operating behind the scenes via seamless integration with virtually any business management system, Avalara delivers fast, easy, accurate, and affordable solutions for companies of any size.

On the international front, Avalara supports more than 85 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim. Avalara serves tens of thousands of registered users globally and calculates VAT, sales and use taxes on two billion transactions annually.

Avalara’s Sales Tax Suite is a fast, accurate, and affordable SaaS offering that makes it easy to calculate rates, manage exemption certificates, file forms and remit payments. It’s comprised of three separate web-based services:

AvaTax automates the complex process of transactional tax compliance. It handles everything from jurisdictional research and rate calculation to tax holidays, tiered, bracket and threshold taxes and taxability across thousands of products.

CertCapture handles all aspects of collecting, applying and managing exemption certifications. From an online walk-through wizard to validating the certificate and managing expirations and renewals, CertCapture reduces audit exposure and risk.

Compliance doesn’t end with accurate tax calculation. Avalara Returns completely automates your returns preparation, filing remittance and notice management into one easy step while ensuring timely delivery of payment and single sourcing of your returns.