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Avalara for Communications is a purpose-built, cloud-based tax compliance solution designed specifically for the complexities of the communications and media industry.
It provides automated tax calculation, returns preparation, filing, and remittance for a wide array of connected products and services, including telecom, VoIP, streaming media, IoT devices, software, and other digital services. The platform connects directly to your existing billing, subscription management, or ERP systems (or homegrown systems via API) to deliver highly accurate, real-time tax calculations based on regularly updated rates and jurisdiction-specific rules across thousands of global jurisdictions.
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Avalara for Communications is a purpose-built, cloud-based tax compliance platform that automates the complex process of calculating, preparing, and filing taxes for telecom, VoIP, streaming media, and IoT connected devices. By integrating directly with existing billing, subscription, or ERP systems, it delivers real-time, address-level tax calculations and manages exemption certificates to ensure pinpoint accuracy across thousands of global jurisdictions. Its core value proposition lies in removing the heavy burden of manual compliance and keeping up with constantly shifting tax rules, allowing businesses to reduce audit risk, cut operational overhead, and confidently scale new product offerings or service bundles without worrying about unexpected tax liabilities.
Communications tax is notably more intricate than traditional sales and use tax, largely because its jurisdictional boundaries often differ and the industry is in a constant state of rapid transformation. Businesses must navigate unique challenges like tax-on-tax calculations, tiered taxation, tax-inclusive pricing, and specific "truth-in-billing" requirements that dictate how fees must be presented on customer invoices. Furthermore, bundling diverse services, such as data, voice, and hardware, creates a highly complex web of rules and rates that make monitoring compliance manually an almost impossible task
The AvaTax for Communications tax engine maintains content for:
60,000+ North American jurisdictions 150+ countries globally 7,000+ tax return forms specifically for communications
Highlights
- Precise, Address-Level Calculations: The solution uses geospatial technology (assigning taxing jurisdictions by latitude and longitude) to provide street-level tax precision, ensuring you apply the correct rates for complex communications taxes for over 150+ countries
- Tame Tax Complexity: It easily handles intricate communications tax logic, including tax-on-tax calculations, tiered taxation, multi-tax scenarios, self-taxing rates, and tax-inclusive pricing, even when different services and products are bundled together.
- Automate Returns and Remittance: Avalara Returns for Communications seamlessly automates the entire returns lifecycle, from data ingestion and preparation to filing and payment remittance. It also helps manage out-of-cycle activities like registrations, back-filing, and notice handling, significantly reducing audit risk.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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Avalara for Communications | Sales & Use Tax determination engine for Avatax for Communications | $1.00 |
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Overage per contract | $0.01 |
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