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Wayfair Decision is Clear and Present Danger to Sales Tax Status Quo

These days, if you put two or more sales tax professionals into a room, it won’t be long before the conversation turns to the South Dakota v. Wayfair case currently scheduled for oral arguments before the Supreme Court on April 17. In fact, with 38 Amicus Curiae briefs filed to date, it feels like the […]

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Risky Proposition: How VAT Impacts Companies’ Financial Results and Reputation

In theory, VAT collection should be a neutral event for companies, since the tax is born and paid for by the consumer. However, with a significant value of taxes passing through your company, VAT can be a major liability if it is not claimed, collected and settled properly. Companies often view VAT as nothing more […]

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Peru eInvoicing Requirements Overhauled

Introduced in 2010, eInvoicing in Peru is undergoing a major shift in 2018, reaching an increasing number of taxpayers and requiring an entirely new technical structure. Summary of the Peru eInvoicing Law Peru’s new and updated regulations expand the universe of taxpayers mandated to comply with electronic invoicing in that country. In this context, Peru […]

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Three Reasons Reconciliation Shouldn’t Be Overlooked

Businesses across Europe have been so focused on updating their processes and technologies to ensure they can transmit data under new VAT compliance and reporting regulations that they are often overlooking an important piece of the puzzle: reconciliation. VAT regulations are becoming more complex, with businesses being required to report and share detailed transactional data, […]

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Expert Q&A: Why Congress Dropped the Ball on Tax Reporting in the Sharing Economy

Caroline Bruckner is the managing director of the Kogod Tax Policy Center at the Kogod School of Business at American University in Washington, DC. She is heavily involved in consulting with Congress on tax policy and in 2016 published the study Shortchanged: The Tax Compliance Challenges of Small Business Operators Driving the On-Demand Platform Economy. […]

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Colombia Extending the E-Invoicing Mandate Again – Large Companies Up Next

During the past couple of years, Colombia has been implementing a Clearance-type e-invoicing mandate, much in line with trends that we have seen across the world. The speed in which DIAN, the Colombian tax authority, has introduced changes and rolled out the mandate is much higher than average, with momentum only having been overtaken by […]

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The Best Accounts Payable Automation Software Still Needs Tax Compliance

Procure-to-Pay Challenges Accounts payable within large, distributed businesses can be a complex, disconnected process involving many different departments. Magnify this complexity with the numerous types of business assets and materials your employees are purchasing across the country from various suppliers for multiple locations and uses, and you have a recipe for sales and use tax […]

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Cryptocurrency Tax Reporting Takes a New Twist with SEC Declaration

The evolving saga of tax information reporting for cryptocurrency exchanges took another turn recently when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) declared that cryptocurrency trading platforms must register as national security exchanges. With the SEC’s new requirements, trading platforms must either register or be exempt from registration, or risk operating illegally. Effectively, the regulatory body […]

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Sovos Announces Cloud Solution to Improve Accuracy of Use Tax Payments on Purchases

Sovos Use Tax Manager enables organizations to reduce the risks and costs associated in notoriously error-prone use tax management processes March 5, 2018, LAS VEGAS [SAP Ariba Live] — Sovos, a global leader in tax compliance and regulatory reporting software, today announced Sovos Use Tax Manager, a cloud-based solution that automates use tax determination reconciliation […]

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VAT & B2G Reporting Newsletter: February 2018

International News European Commission Backs Italy’s E-Invoicing Mandate On February 5, 2018, the European Commission backed Italy’s e-invoicing mandate by recommending the EU Council approve Italy’s derogation request from the EU VAT Directive. By way of background, Italy’s mandate (which would become effective in two stages starting on July 1, 2018) requires taxpayers to provide, […]

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Streamlining Accounts Payable Internal Controls with Audit Accuracy

If you’re interested in improving your accounts payable internal controls while streamlining your use tax self-assessment process, look no further than Sovos Use Tax Manager. Many companies have begun digital transformations to automate their procure-to-pay processes, moving away from paper invoicing. Regardless of how they are managing the process today, automation is still not enough. […]

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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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