Avalara AvaTax Excise
AvaTax Excise calculates excise tax for energy suppliers, distributors, retailers, and traders, as well as tobacco and vape manufacturers and wholesalers.

Accuracy is critical
Even seemingly small errors or changes in rules can create tax liabilities, resulting in potentially large audit penalties. Our cloud-based solution reduces the risk of costly mistakes.

Compliance at scale
As your business merges or expands, maintaining regulatory compliance is challenging. Avalara centralizes tax compliance to ensure consistency and manage complexity as you grow.

Keep your teams focused
With AvaTax Excise, you don’t need to rely on your IT team to implement changes or get answers to customer questions. Updates are automatic and your tax team can easily access the information they need.
Features and benefits

AvaTax Excise includes support for a wide variety of transactions in thousands of jurisdictions for energy, tobacco, and vape businesses.

With AvaTax Excise, you can determine both excise tax and sales and use tax for excisable products on your transactions.

There’s no need to worry about keeping up with jurisdictional rate or rule changes. Our monthly updates are based on the most recent regulations.

Want to see the tax impact of selling a new product, using a new carrier, or delivering to a new location? Scenario simulations can help you make an informed decision.

With scenario-based architecture, built-in rules can be augmented or customized by your tax preparers, without programming or IT involvement.

Quickly and easily access information for analysis and audit or customer support.

Easy query capabilities mean you can quickly find both the rates and the rules governing tax determination for any transaction.

AvaTax Excise connects seamlessly with leading back-office and ERP systems.