Avalara
Newsletter — February 2017
CRUSH 2017—Save $400 With This Week's Flash Sale
Pack your cowboy boots and get ready to head to Austin, TX for CRUSH – the industry’s must-attend conference for tax compliance automation. Network with peers, attend educational sessions and social events with key decision-makers and influencers who want to expand their tax compliance expertise, discover new technologies, and learn about ways to improve your transaction management and tax compliance processes.

Register by 2/10 and save $400 off the full price of $899 with promo code: EB200
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A Call for National Sales Tax
What’s the best way to simplify the complicated United States tax code and solve the Internal Revenue Service’s “miserable” budget? How about replacing a bevy of federal taxes with a national sales tax? The Fair Tax Act of 2017 was recently introduced by Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas). The FTA seeks to “promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.” Gone would be the existing income and corporate income taxes, employment and self-employment taxes, and estate and gift taxes. In their place: a national sales tax, with an initial rate of 23% percent.
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Sink or Swim: A Guide to Surviving Sales Tax in 2017
States are facing budget deficits and they need revenue from taxes. Sales and use tax is one of the largest generators of this revenue, but collecting it has become more difficult. How Americans buy, sell and consume goods and services has evolved beyond what’s defined by state tax laws. For example, Congress has yet to act on outdated federal internet sales legislation; services now outpace goods in consumer spending but aren’t taxed with the same consistency; and digital delivery of software, books and other media and streaming services have states perplexed when it comes to setting standards for taxability.
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Drop Shipping; Who’s on the Hook for Sales Tax?
Many business are left wondering who is responsible for sales tax? That’s a question not easily answered without understanding the rules of the game. Come learn from sales tax guru, Marilyn Wethekam, J.D., LL.M. She will demystify drop shipping rules and explain when a 3rd party triggers sales tax, whether sales or use tax is owed and why drop shipping often creates nexus.

Thursday, February 23
11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST

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2017 A-List Events
Every year, we hit the road to host half-day events for customers and partners across the country. A-List events bring together industry veterans, Avalara leadership and product experts to discuss best practices, showcase new products and features and to provide training for users. A-List events are free and offer unique venues, as well as the opportunity to earn CPE credit and network with other professionals and tax experts.

Keep your calendar open the day of the A-List nearest you. Registration for spring events will open mid-February.
Webinars
Wed, Feb. 8
10:00AM PDT / 1:00PM EDT
Mishandled exemption certificates are a leading cause of audit exposure for today's tax departments. You may not realize you are mismanaging exemption certificates or you may be reactive; correcting invalid or retrieving missing certificates when errors are discovered. Learn how Avalara CertCapture can simplify the exemption certificate process during a thirty-minute demonstration. You'll learn how easily it is to create, manage, and request certificates.

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Thurs, Feb. 9
10:00AM PDT / 1:00PM EDT
Avalara Returns automates the entire sales tax filing process, saving time and money. Learn how to file and remit returns accurately and on time, every time. We will discuss the added benefit of automating your filing and remittance process and taking a look at Avalara Returns as a solution for navigating around many of the complex problems presented by filing and remittance. In this webinar you will learn about how to file stress-free returns, how to have one single source and payment and how to have better notice management.

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Get free training for Avalara products and learn about product taxability, how to handle your reconciliation and reporting, how to import your transactions and more! View and register for our upcoming product training webinars.

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