Avalara
Avalara
Type | Limited Liability Company |
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Industry | Transaction Tax Automation |
Founded | 2004; 13 years ago(2004) |
Founder | Rory Rawlings, Scott McFarlane, Jared Vogt |
Headquarters | Seattle, WA,USA |
Number of locations | 15 |
Area served | Global |
Key people | CEO: Scott McFarlane |
Services | Sales Tax Management Services Transactional Tax Automation |
Website | www |
Avalara, Inc. is a privately held company with headquarters in Seattle, WA. Avalara helps businesses get tax compliance right. Avalara’s customers face demanding tax obligations imposed by state, local, and other taxing authorities around the world, and rely on Avalara to provide efficient and accurate solutions to manage those requirements. The company provides solutions for various transactional taxes, including sales and use, VAT, excise, communications, and others. Each year, Avalara serves customers by processing billions of tax transactions, filing more than a million transaction tax returns, and managing millions of tax exemption certificates and other compliance documents. [1]
Founded in 2004, Avalara is one of six Certified Service Provider available to retailers. [2]
Type | Limited Liability Company |
---|---|
Industry | Transaction Tax Automation |
Founded | 2004; 13 years ago(2004) |
Founder | Rory Rawlings, Scott McFarlane, Jared Vogt |
Headquarters | Seattle, WA,USA |
Number of locations | 15 |
Area served | Global |
Key people | CEO: Scott McFarlane |
Services | Sales Tax Management Services Transactional Tax Automation |
Website | www |
History
Marketplace Fairness Act
Passed by the U.S. Senate in May 2013, The Marketplace Fairness Act would enable state governments to collect sales and use taxes from remote retailers with no physical presence in their state. Avalara has taken no official stance on the legislation.