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9 Points to Consider When Monitoring E-Invoicing Change Management Processes

One of the key challenges within e-invoicing is to keep your processes and systems compliant at all times. Guaranteeing compliance is not easy. As we say here at Sovos, “regulation constantly evolves; VAT requirements are moving targets and there is no such thing as being half compliant”. One of the biggest mistakes enterprises make is […]

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Unload Your Unclaimed Property Burden

Let’s face it, most companies have larger things to worry about than the dormancy period of uncashed payroll checks or researching state websites to determine if vendor checks should be escheated this year or next. What was the last activity date again? Yuck! Many of the organizations that have invested in unclaimed property filing software […]

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Q&A: Colombia Mandates Large Taxpayers to Comply With eInvoicing by September 1, 2018

The Colombian tax administration (DIAN) issued a new resolution 000010/2018 on February 6th that requires large taxpayers to issue and report electronic invoices by September 1, 2018. This resolution was widely expected in Colombia since the DIAN already issued a draft of it in the last quarter in 2017, where it asked for feedback from […]

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Sovos to Exhibit at SAP Ariba Live – Las Vegas

The Sovos team is looking forward to meeting procurement leaders at SAP Ariba Live in Las Vegas, March 5-7. Procure-to-Pay Tax Compliance Challenges Remain We’ve been gathering insights from the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) into the challenges tax compliance, procurement, finance & accounting, and IT are having regarding incorrect sales tax charges and/or use […]

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Data Analytics: A Critical Component of VAT Compliance

Finding potential errors or missing data before filing VAT forms is essential to efficient VAT compliance and reporting, but this process is often left to manual, random and selective processes. These ad hoc data checks simply aren’t enough when it comes to ensuring accurate VAT compliance in a changing regulatory landscape requiring real-time data sharing […]

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Vermont Withdraws from Combined Federal/State Filing Program for 1099s

Organizations reporting tax information to Vermont might have been surprised to find that the state is no longer part of the Combined Federal/State Filing (CF/SF) program for form 1099. Previously, organizations could report 1099 information to the IRS, and the IRS would send that information directly to the department of revenue in Vermont. The reporting […]

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Latin American VAT Gap Drives Technology Adoption

Tax evasion is a costly problem that has impacted virtually every Latin American country. According to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which looked at studies of evasion rates, tax non-compliance cost countries an estimated US $340 billion in 2015. To combat this issue, governments across Latin America and around the […]

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“Cookie Nexus” Impact on Quill v North Dakota Case – Chuck TV

Charles Maniace, Director of Regulatory Analysis, Sovos, discusses how the recent “cookie rule” could impact the Supreme Court who decided to revisit the 1992 Quill v North Dakota case that limits a states’ tax authority over online sales based on physical presence or nexus in-state. Chuck TV – Episode V   Episode I – Supreme […]

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Quill v North Dakota Revisited – Manufacturing Implications via Chuck TV

Charles Maniace, Director of Regulatory Analysis, Sovos, discusses what it would mean for manufacturers if the Supreme Court decided to overturn the 1992 Quill v North Dakota case that limits a states’ tax authority over online sales based on physical presence or nexus in-state. Chuck TV – Episode IV   Episode V – “Cookie Nexus” Impact […]

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Supreme Court Revisits Online Sales Nexus – Video Insights via Chuck TV

Charles Maniace, Director of Regulatory Analysis, Sovos, discusses what it means to you that the Supreme Court decided to revisit the 1992 Quill v North Dakota case that limits a states’ tax authority over online sales based on physical presence or nexus in-state. Chuck TV – Episode I   Check out Episode II – South […]

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Implications on Business if Quill Doctrine Overturned – Video Insights via Chuck TV

Charles Maniace, Director of Regulatory Analysis, Sovos, discusses what it would mean for businesses if the Supreme Court decided to overturn the 1992 Quill v North Dakota case that limits a states’ tax authority over online sales based on physical presence or nexus in-state. Chuck TV – Episode III   Episode IV – Quill v North […]

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South Dakota Nexus Rule Unique Facts – Video Insights via Chuck TV

Charles Maniace, Director of Regulatory Analysis, Sovos, discusses the unique facts surrounding the South Dakota nexus rule given the Supreme Court decided to revisit the 1992 Quill v North Dakota case (that limits a states’ tax authority over online sales based on physical presence or nexus in-state) based on a law adopted in South Dakota. […]

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Sales and Use Tax Trends 2018 – A Shifting Landscape Webinar Recap

For corporate tax professionals concerned with 2018 tax trends and maintaining sales and use tax compliance with the numerous changes in the tax compliance landscape in the U.S. this past year – as well as those emerging on the horizon, – our Webinar, “U.S. Sales and Use Tax Trends 2018 – A Shifting Landscape,” was […]

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Mandatory E-Invoicing in Italy: How Clearance Came to Europe

During the past year, much has been said and many rumors have flourished about the direction of e-invoicing in Italy – and more specifically about whether or not Italy would (and could!) make the exchange of e-invoices mandatory for all supplies. We have repeatedly reported about these developments as they have unfolded and now we […]

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Lower 1099-K Reporting Thresholds Rake in Money for States, Surprise Businesses and Put Companies on Notice

The 1099-K reporting threshold changes enacted in Massachusetts and Vermont have started to have repercussions for states, online businesses and companies doing tax reporting. In conflict with IRS requirements, Massachusetts and Vermont changed the threshold for reporting 1099-K transactions from $20,000 and 200 transactions to just $600 with no minimum number of transactions. These transactions […]

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VAT Compliance Lessons Learned from Latin America

Brazil, Chile, Mexico and other Latin American countries have been on the bleeding edge of technology-driven value-added tax (VAT) initiatives for more than a decade. These countries have set the stage for similar compliance and reporting requirements that are now sweeping across more than 30 European countries. Businesses operating in Europe have a distinct benefit. […]

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SAF-T is a Red Herring and is a Misleading Way to Describe What’s New in the EU Market

When European or American companies talk about Europe increasingly adopting VAT reporting solutions based on the OECD SAF-T standard, they are mostly showcasing their ignorance of the revolution in tax controls that is really brewing. Europe is playing catch-up with many other parts of the world which are utilizing the Internet and associated technologies to […]

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The Future of VAT Compliance and Reporting: Automation

In the complex and ever-changing landscape of VAT Compliance and Reporting, automation is critical to drive operational simplification, cost reduction, audit risks mitigation and capability acquisition. “Routine tasks do need to be automated, but for the purpose of freeing up people to explore new approaches to create even more value.” This statement from a June […]

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