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FinDEVr Live: Avalara Helps Developers Navigate the Wacky World of Sales Tax

FinDEVr Live: Avalara Helps Developers Navigate the Wacky World of Sales Tax

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Avalara_FinDEVr2015_logoSales tax is complicated, but Avalara makes it easy. Since 2004, our dedicated team of revolutionaries has worked day and night to help businesses of all sizes achieve compliance by providing a fast, easy, and accurate way to manage transactional taxes. Avalara’s API dynamically delivers instantaneous sales-tax decisions based on precise geo-location in more than 12,000 taxing jurisdictions in the U.S. Avalara’s API offers the ability to automatically assign hundreds of thousands of taxability rules and the latest jurisdiction—boundaries within your desired accounting, shopping cart, or point-of-sales system—to deliver the right rate and tax calculation.

The wacky world of sales tax
Transactional sales tax is not the easiest thing for an organization to tackle. With million of addresses, thousands of taxability rules and taxing jurisdictions involved, it can be a daunting task. We’ll take a whimsical look at some of the more interesting and bizarre sales-tax cases, look at the technology that Avalara has built to solve this problem, and take a deeper dive into the APIs that are available for developers.

Key takeaways:

  • Complexity of transactional tax explained
  • How APIs solve this problem for developers
  • Weird and wacky sales-tax scenarios

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Presenter:

Loke Uei Tan, Senior Manager, Developer Relations
LinkedIn | @lokeuei | lokeuei@avalara.com

Tan has been working in the evangelism capacity for a decade at Microsoft and most recently leads the developer team at Avalara, a cloud-based sales-tax-automation service. He brings with him an extensive knowledge in building and running a successful evangelism program in any modern organization.