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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Customer Story
Role Accountant
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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For 39 States and many, many jurisdictions, special jurisdictions. It, there's no way one person could take care of this...

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Customer Story
Role President
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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It makes it easier because I don't worry about I don't have to worry about a person who stays on top of this. Hopefully,...

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Customer Story
Gary Hills
Gary Hills

Director of Finance

Atrium Campus
Industry Business Services
Role Director of Finance
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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We really didn't report any taxes in the past and I came to atrium about a year ago. We haven't really recorded any sale...

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Customer Story
Abby  Perez
Abby Perez

Corporate Accountant, Indirect Tax

Nedap
Industry Manufacturing
Role Corporate Accountant, Indirect Tax
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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all just as we were, Notice of a lot of the states are changing these within the software talks. So I think you And havi...

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Customer Story
Industry Software
Role Tax Accountant
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Yes, lots of jurisdictions, so especially like Louisiana Colorado. They are every jurisdiction is something different. T...

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Customer Story
Christian Bellino
Christian Bellino

Revenue Manager

NEFCO
Industry Wholesale & Distribution
Role Revenue Manager
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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It's made it much easier to stay in compliance because the taxability Matrix that a Valero offers we're able to follow t...

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Customer Story
Industry Professional, Scientific & Technical Svc
Role Financial Coordinator
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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The avalara website keeps you on track because we were charging sales tax and seven states going on eight because we got...

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Customer Story
Role Accounting Supervisor
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Well, they make it easy because they they keep track of all the tax rates. We don't have to do it. And I mean we still g...

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Customer Story
Vershawn Thompson
Vershawn Thompson

International Accountant

Vectorworks
Industry Software Development
Role International Accountant
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Well, we are able to meet with our reps about anything that's going on. Also I know there's anything going on. There's l...

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Customer Story
JY
Jay Yan

Tax Technology Manager

Groupon
Industry Professional, Scientific & Technical Svc
Role Tax Technology Manager
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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I feel we just use the Okay, all these attacks the codes into all the tax rates and in the in link directly linked to th...

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Customer Story
Industry Software
Role Tax Director
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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They're in the majority of States at this point. So California, like I said, is not a taxable state, but for the most pa...

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Customer Story
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Tracey Smith

Department Manager Sales Tax Compliance

Hendrick Automotive Group
Role Department Manager Sales Tax Compliance
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Yeah, just the fact that you know, they verify the information like right now we're going through and you know we just p...

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Customer Story
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Amber Holifield

AR & Sales Tax Specialist

Currey & Company
Role AR & Sales Tax Specialist
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Absolutely because I can't tell you how many times I get like tax notice, especially in the beginning, you get so many t...

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Customer Story
Role CFO / CIO
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Yes. So on the front screen is he probably will know when you login it tells you if you're getting close to Nexus. And a...

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Customer Story
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Dionesi Lopez

Senior Tax Accountant

ISACA
Role Senior Tax Accountant
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Um, I kind of like the little Nexus map to have in the bottom. So there's a constant reminder every day you log in, you...

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Customer Story
Role Senior Tax Analyst
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Oh yes, absolutely, especially with Colorado and all the like wacky home rule jurisdictions. I've learned to like play a...

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Customer Story
Role Senior Accountant
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Well, the thing I appreciate about that Valera is that once you set up a jurisdiction, it's pretty much plug and play. W...

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Customer Story
Role CFO
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Well in two ways one they usually I don't know if it's semi and y'all send it out but you'll do send out the updates and...

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Customer Story
Role Compliance Manager
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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I use the example of my licensing because I have five different are seven different entities in there now and the licens...

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Customer Story
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Sue Parks

Director of Accounting

Belmont Instrument LLC
Role Director of Accounting
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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So I think it does a couple of things one, it gets notifications about changes, so it can get ahead of things. So I get...

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Customer Story
Role Senior Tax Analyst
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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well they have a great research tool and also as long as everything is up to date as far as your like entity profile I V...

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Customer Story
Q

How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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I would say definitely the monthly filing is awesome, just reviewing and hitting a button and not worry about filing for...

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Customer Story
SC
Samantha Cougot

Accounting Specialist

Starc Systems
Industry Manufacturing
Role Accounting Specialist
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Yeah. Tax rates are one of the biggest things for me. For trusting a Valera is that tax rates are constantly changing. A...

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Customer Story
Role Sales Tax Specialist
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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It's extremely easy. You you know if you have a question you can go to the tax research tool. And what I like about that...

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Customer Story
Role Accountant
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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With, we have all of our registrations in different states, so it's nice that when we were getting set up with them to a...

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Customer Story
Sandra Stattion
Sandra Stattion

Indirect Tax Manager

Roku
Industry Technology,Information and Media
Role Indirect Tax Manager
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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We have just about every state. I'd say a good 80% of all the local jurisdictions that collect tax. And because of the c...

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Customer Story
Keisha Washington
Keisha Washington

Accounting Specialist

Murj
Industry Professional, Scientific & Technical Svc
Role Accounting Specialist
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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We are collecting tax in 12 different jurisdictions in that doesn't that just includes State not local. So 12 right now...

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Customer Story
Role Sr. Accounting Manager
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Our Lord keeps up with all the works, all the maintenance. So they're in the know, they know when things are changing wi...

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Customer Story
Role Associate
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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As I mentioned in the last question, it keeps the real-time database, a real-time data. So it keeps updated in the come...

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Customer Story
Industry Wholesale & Distribution
Role Bookkeeper and Accountant
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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It was great. It was a time-consuming task, time-consuming task, and a Valera has relieved us of that bird.

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Customer Story
Industry Administrative and Support Services
Role Senior Tax Analyst
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Assessment easier to understand the jurisdictions. It's definitely easier when I think about so many of the different lo...

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Customer Story
Q

How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Because again, it's helping us to not miss filings. It helps us with we have a calendar that gets built. It sends us rem...

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Customer Story
Role Tax Manager
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Makes it easier because it we know where we're supposed to be. I mean, it's really not really, it's kind of a moot point...

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Customer Story
Industry Retail
Role Controller
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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So before before joining avalara, we only file in our own our own state. So we actually reach out to Avila has to be mor...

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Customer Story
William Mullaney
William Mullaney

Sr. Manager Indirect Tax - AIG

Thermo Fisher Scientific
Industry Manufacturing
Role Sr. Manager Indirect Tax - AIG
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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What it does for me, is one state and domestic state that we have a lot of issues with in regards to compliance and Taxa...

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Customer Story
Andre Johnson
Andre Johnson

Business Analyst

NEFCO
Industry Wholesale & Distribution
Role Business Analyst
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Speak to the the audit portion of it being compliant for tax audits, especially when you don't know what's coming before...

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Customer Story
Sandra Aguilar
Sandra Aguilar

Director of Finance and Accounting

OSI Hardware
Industry Wholesale & Distribution
Role Director of Finance and Accounting
Q

How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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So right now, we collect taxes in. 36, states were adding eight more States staying in compliance with 44. States is har...

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Customer Story
Krunal  Patel
Krunal Patel

Financial Controller

Crunch Labs
Industry Professional, Scientific & Technical Svc
Role Financial Controller
Q

How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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Right now because we are a subscription company like we Supply we sell to every state in the United States and we got ve...

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Customer Story
Industry Wholesale & Distribution
Role Controller
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How does Avalara make it easier to stay in compliance with all your jurisdictions?

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We have about 16 states that we are filing returns for right now. We've been filing in Washington, state all along and t...

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