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What is Contingency and Why is It Important in Latin America?

I get a lot of questions on the differences between Latin America electronic invoicing in comparison to other regions of the world. And one of the confusing points for many people is the concept of “Contingency” – the question that comes up from many is – if I am forced to go electronic, why is […]

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Sales Tax Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics Users

  Microsoft Dynamics’ business solutions have long offered their customers customizable, user-friendly ways to better manage their end-to-end company processes. Manufacturing or retail, e-commerce or the public sector, Microsoft Dynamics is increasingly compelling for businesses to better manage and meet company goals. In an effort to best accommodate this exciting and fast-growing ERP, Taxware is […]

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China’s VAT Reform

Value Added Tax (VAT) is the most prevalent type of consumption tax in the world. The tax is assessed on the sales or purchase price of merchandise or services. Most countries in the world have adopted VAT and apply VAT to both goods and services. In fact, some countries use the name goods and services […]

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LATAM Compliance Now Impacts Your Employees – Payroll Receipts Must be CFDI Compliant in 2014

In a recent article, I discussed the concept of eSocial in Brazil – a new real-time integration requirement that will be focused on payroll taxes among other human resource issues.  Well, Mexico actually has beaten Brazil to the market with the requirement of Electronic Payroll Receipts as of January 1, 2014.  In Brazil, eSocial will […]

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Brazil Financial Compliance – From E-Invoices to Payroll

The trend of tracking taxes in real-time is progressing beyond business transactions in Brazil.  Here is a little history:

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Software Taxability 101

The high-tech software sector is a major revenue source for taxing authorities in the United States and around the world, but the taxability issues faced by vendors in this space can be particularly tricky. Just ten years ago, determining the taxability of software was very straight forward.  Most software was delivered on a tangible medium […]

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Invoiceware Hybrid Cloud for SAP Part 4 of 4: Proving the Value for Latin America E-Invoicing Compliance

Here is the simple test to prove the advantage of the Hybrid-Cloud model vs other alternatives:  

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Argentina Announces New E-Invoicing Mandate Affecting Over 300,000 companies

Legal requirements for invoicing are constantly changing in Argentina. While they are mandatory for some industries, others are still receiving future timelines from the Argentinean tax authority Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos (AFIP). Today organizations need to consider solutions for Type E export invoices, as well as the regulations for domestic (Type A and Type […]

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SAP Hybrid Cloud: Covers All 3 Functional Requirements for Latin America E-Invoicing Compliance – Part 3 of 4

For the next installment on my series on: SAP Hybrid Cloud Proves Successful for Latin America E-Invoicing Compliance, I wanted to cover why you can’t rely solely on a pure managed service provider or 100% cloud provider for e-invoicing in Latin America. It is really important to understand there are 3 functional requirements to Latin […]

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Retail Sales Tax News, Winter 2014

Retailers with business operations in the United States and around the world rely on Taxware’s products and services to ensure they are in compliance with the latest legal, regulatory, and policy changes. Our team of tax experts maintains the accuracy of millions of taxability rules (which include rates, product taxability, place of supply rules, rounding […]

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Chile Mandatory E-Invoicing Deadlines Finalized in Official Gazette

To clarify on one of my earlier posts concerning Chile E-Invoicing, I wanted to take the time to explain the revenue levels as well as the deadlines that were officially published.

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SAP Hybrid Cloud Part 2 of 4: Proves Successful for Latin America E-Invoicing Compliance

In follow up to my first article: SAP Hybrid Cloud Proves Successful for Latin America E-Invoicing Compliance Part 1, I wanted to go into further detail on why the Hybrid Cloud model is taking over as the leading solution choice for compliance across Latin America. Therefore, I am creating a series of blogs over the next weeks:

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Chile 2014 – What You Need To Know

Important note: Up until 2014, the requirement to utilize electronic invoicing for domestic invoices in Chile was voluntary. This meant that you could transition to electronic invoicing, but if you did, you had to do it in a certain way that was managed by the government.  However, you were not forced to do e-invoicing by […]

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Medical Devices Taxes

 There is a strong public policy interest in promoting good health with many states applying sales tax exemptions or reduced rates on medical devices in order to support this policy. At the same time, states are looking to bolster their tax revenue and are sometimes inclined to interpret their medical-related sales tax rules strictly. While […]

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Top 5 Reasons Why Companies are Using Brazil version 3.1 to transition off of on-premise solutions into Managed Service Solutions

Over the last 5 weeks, we have explored the top 5 reasons why companies are switching off on-premise software solutions to cloud providers, more specifically hybrid cloud. Here is a quick recap of the key take-away elements as well as a review of why the selection of the best solution is imperative.

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Philips gets IT in Latin America

Philips Selects Invoiceware’s SAP Hybrid Cloud for Brazil Nota Fiscal SaaS-based solution replaces legacy on-premise Nota Fiscal software reducing annual maintenance costs by 80% while increasing productivity within the electronic invoicing operation by 25%

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SAP Hybrid Cloud Part 1 of 4: Proves Successful for Latin America E-Invoicing Compliance

There is a lot of discussion around cloud versus on premise. And there are a lot of definitions for a new trend –“The Hybrid Cloud”. Some analysts will say that it is a Platform as a Service play – meaning that you can distribute processing over multiple data centers.  However, my meaning in this series […]

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2014 North Carolina Sales Tax Changes

2014 North Carolina Sales Tax Changes The new year has brought with it significant sales and use tax changes in North Carolina. Last summer Governor Pat McCrory signed into law a comprehensive tax reform package that was passed by the North Carolina General Assembly. The reforms lowered the state income tax while also subjecting a […]

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