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Tax Exemption Certificate Management – Top 10 Practices Improve Compliance

Regardless of what products you sell or what service you provide, managing sales and use tax exemptions is a critical part of a strong tax compliance process. However, tax exemption certificate management often falls through the cracks, opening the door for confusion, lost time, audits, penalties and additional expenses for both your business and your […]

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Sovos Demonstrates Effective Tax Compliance for Wholesaler Goodin Company

Goodin Company adds Sovos Global Tax Determination to their ERP to increase accuracy, reduce penalties, and free up staff time. The Company Goodin Company is the “Source of Supply” for plumbing, heating, and air conditioning parts for residential, commercial, and industrial builders, plumbers, and contractors. Their fully computerized sales transaction system allows employees direct access to […]

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Automating Tax Compliance Along the Procure to Pay Process – Webinar Recap

Sovos indirect tax experts, Matthew Walsh and Chuck Maniace, recently presented webinar attendees with valuable information on how to automate tax compliance on the AP side in our Webinar, “Leading Practices in Automating Tax Compliance Along the Procure-to-Pay Process.” They discussed the benefits and drawbacks of manual, semi-automated, and fully automated (real-time or batch) compliance […]

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GDPR Compliance: What it Means for Your Global Business E-Archive

Some of the biggest business buzzwords of 2017 are without a doubt tied to the themes of privacy, integrity and personal data protection. Rightly so; these are important considerations for any organisation, and with the entry into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (more commonly referred to as GDPR) looming only 6 months […]

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Senate Tax Reform Bill Maintains Employer Mandate and Reporting Requirements

The tax reform bill that just passed the Senate does not eliminate the employer mandate to provide health insurance, nor does it change Affordable Care Act reporting requirements for eligible organizations. The bill does eliminate the individual mandate to purchase health insurance, meaning individuals who choose not to buy insurance will no longer be subject […]

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Massachusetts Changes 1099-K Threshold in Conflict with Federal Requirements

Massachusetts has become the first state to take action toward collecting tax money lost in the sharing economy. The commonwealth recently lowered the threshold for reporting income on the 1099-K to a level far below federal requirements. Sharing-economy companies that are third-party settlement organizations (TPSOs) use form 1099-K to report payments to non-employee service providers. […]

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Tax Compliance Software – 4 Key Characteristics Reduce Risk

The tax compliance playing field has gone global, with a complex web of intersecting, and sometimes conflicting, tax laws and jurisdictions. The digital era of tax compliance requires tax compliance software that can support centralized control and oversight – otherwise, companies will be vulnerable to missed deadlines, missed regulation changes, errors and discrepancies, fines, penalties and […]

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Black Friday to Cyber Monday – Another Sovos Sales Tax Software Success

Multichannel and Internet Retailers Benefit from 40 Percent Performance Gains in Tax Determination Transactional Performance If you read the recent Black Friday and Cyber Monday reports for 2017 in the media, many sourced from the National Retail Federation (NRF) or Adobe Analytics, the main takeaway was the accelerated evolution from brick-and-mortar to online retail. This […]

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1099 Season Checklist: Meeting the Challenges of Changing Requirements

The PATH Act is back for a sequel to last season’s confusion over compliance requirements, and this time, states have joined the show. For the upcoming 1099 tax season, it’s more important than ever for organizations to keep up with new deadlines and other potential surprises. As part of the provisions of the PATH Act, […]

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ACA Season Preparation: Deadlines and Penalties Get Serious

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) survived an onslaught of resistance and repeal attempts last summer, and ACA reporting for tax year 2017 reporting is definitely happening. This year, unlike in years past, extended filing deadlines are unlikely and financial penalties are very real. For filers, both the complexity and the risk of ACA filings are […]

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Tax Analyst Skills Needed for the Future of Indirect Tax

What are the skills today’s tax analyst needs to prepare for the future of indirect tax? You may have gone into the profession thinking, “I’m better at math than language, and being a tax analyst sounds like a good career choice. It could get boring, but I’ll manage.” You may have been right on the […]

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1099 Compass Regulatory Update: Week of Nov. 6, 2017

Changes to tax compliance requirements and legislation happen frequently at the state and IRS levels.  In order to provide customers with the updated and accurate information they need, Sovos documents each of these changes in its Compass portal. Here are some notable changes in 1099 reporting from this week. South Carolina Publishes 2017 Instructions & […]

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Procure-to-Pay Tax Compliance Practices – Sovos L.A. Event Recap

Sovos was on the road for one of our local Global Compliance Series (GCS) events at The Palm in Los Angeles last week. Our experts — Matt Walsh, Principal of Indirect Tax at Sovos, and Tim Kirkpatrick, Director at PwC — presented to tax leaders from primarily retail and manufacturing businesses on the challenges of […]

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Unlucky 7: New IRS Guidance Reveals Why 1099-MISC Forms Could Be at Risk

IRS Publication 1220 contained a potentially nasty little surprise for 1099-MISC filers. The trouble centers on Box 7, the area of the form where filers signify non-employee compensation. For tax year 2016, forms with information in Box 7 are due Jan. 31, 2018, although the IRS will extend the deadline to March 2 upon request. […]

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1099-Krazy: Why Tax Reporting in the Sharing Economy Is about to Get a Lot More Difficult

Two trends have converged to create a nightmare for tax information reporting. First, the sharing economy has redefined work and taxation of wages. Second, the IRS has decided that it needs to bridge the gap between revenues and taxes paid—a divide that the sharing economy has only made wider. The result is a nightmare scenario […]

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Exemption Certificate Management – The Need for Automation

Congratulations! Your business is expanding. Sales are up and in order to meet the client demand, you’ve opened new facilities and distribution centers in new locations. You are starting to enter different product lines and offer implementation services. You’ve even started a reseller program so you can reach new markets.  The downside is that now […]

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Evaluate Your Tax Team for Regulatory and Business Change

Our October 24 Webinar, “Building the Tax Team of the Future to Successfully Navigate the Regulatory Storm,” is now available onDemand. During the webinar, we asked attendees a series of four detailed polling questions to help them measure their tax teams’ ability to deal with regulatory and business change. Questions were based on a Reactive-to-Proactive […]

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Building a Tax Team to Meet Future Compliance Requirements

It’s clear business evolution, technology disruption and related tax compliance laws are creating increased complexity and becoming tremendous business liabilities. In today’s regulatory environment, businesses must view tax compliance as a critical function, committing the right resources, technology and process discipline necessary to maintain compliance and respond to the associated audits so the business can […]

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