Solutions to help accounting practices grow and profit
Explore options ranging from partnerships to a portfolio of Avalara products.

Solutions to help accounting practices grow and profit
Explore options ranging from partnerships to a portfolio of Avalara products.

Avalara helps solve common business challenges accounting firms face
Avalara helps solve common business challenges accounting firms face
CHALLENGE:
Clients want the latest solutions for sales tax compliance, but accounting practices don’t always have the time or the tools to help.
SOLUTION:
Regardless of where your practice may be in its compliance journey, you can deliver the solutions your clients need to maintain compliance by partnering with Avalara. Diversify your revenue streams while supporting client expectations through technology.
CHALLENGE:
When it comes to indirect tax research and sales and use tax research, it’s complicated. Near-constant regulatory changes make it even more difficult to keep up with. How can accounting firms find the research they need with confidence that it’s correct?
SOLUTION:
Avalara Tax Research for Accountants delivers the reliable, regularly updated research tax professionals need to advise clients and maintain compliance. Find the answers you need in plain language with clear citations while avoiding costly, third-party outsourcing.
CHALLENGE:
Business license management is essential for many companies. It’s also a complicated and arduous process that can potentially reduce your firm’s profitability.
SOLUTION:
Avalara License Management for Accountants helps accounting firms offer ongoing business license compliance in an ever-changing regulatory landscape. Take advantage of the right tools from Avalara to expand services and establish a new, recurring revenue model for your practice.
CHALLENGE:
Clients want compliance and advisory services from their accounting firms, but growing to meet the demand can be expensive and time-consuming. How can accounting practices offer new value-added services without hiring additional expertise?
SOLUTION:
Automation with Avalara for Accountants can help practices streamline the redundant, low-margin manual tasks that eat into your bottom line. This allows your practice to offer even more services without the need to hire additional staff.
CHALLENGE:
Compliance services and sales tax preparation and filing are time-consuming tasks that can drain resources and prevent your firm from focusing on more important things, like growth.
SOLUTION:
Avalara for Accountants offers comprehensive sales tax compliance automation to take care of tedious administrative tasks. This can save time and help your firm keep its attention on clients and growth.
CHALLENGE:
Sales and use tax compliance keeps getting more complicated. Developments in the marketplace such as online sales across jurisdictions, more drop shipments, and statutory changes due to South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., have all contributed to the increased difficulty of maintaining compliance.
SOLUTION:
Avalara for Accountants solutions deliver consistent, high-quality, and scalable returns filing services accounting firms can trust. This lets your clients maintain compliance with confidence.
Tax software for CPA firms built to grow with you. Find what works best for your accounting practice.
Tax software for CPA firms built to grow with you. Find what works best for your accounting practice.
End-to-end workflow management and sales tax returns software purpose-built for accountants
Let Avalara take care of the sales tax returns process for you or leverage Avalara technology to support your team. Sales tax prep and filing solutions for accountants are ideal for accounting practices and firms of all sizes.


Avalara Managed Returns for Accountants
Avalara Returns for Accountants
State and local
State and local
Yes — Avalara managed
Yes — firm managed
Yes — Avalara managed
Yes — firm managed
Yes — Avalara managed
Yes — ACH debit
Yes — Avalara managed
Yes — firm managed
For when you need Avalara to handle more of the returns workflow
Cloud-based solution ideal for maximum flexibility to support your most demanding clients
Data import
Multiclient practice management dashboard
Life cycle workflow management
In-app user guides
Filing coverage (U.S. and Canada)
State and local
State and local
Tax liability reporting
Return and work paper archive
Editable returns
Flexible approval and filing schedule
Automated filing services
Yes — Avalara managed
Yes — firm managed
Filing confirmations
Yes — Avalara managed
Yes — firm managed
Tax remittance
Yes — Avalara managed
Yes — ACH debit
Notice management
Yes — Avalara managed
Yes — firm managed

Avalara Managed Returns for Accountants is a winner!
CPA Practice Advisor magazine has named Avalara Managed Returns for Accountants a winner of the 2021 Technology Innovation Awards. An independent advisory panel voted Avalara’s new offering as one of the best new products in the industry.

Avalara Managed Returns for Accountants is a winner!
CPA Practice Advisor magazine has named Avalara Managed Returns for Accountants a winner of the 2021 Technology Innovation Awards. An independent advisory panel voted Avalara’s new offering as one of the best new products in the industry.

Trusted and reliable sales tax research data and content subscriptions for accounting firms
Access content subscriptions and sales tax research in plain language provided with accessibility and ease of use in mind. Simplify your sales tax research with a comprehensive source for your sales tax questions.

All Avalara Tax Research (formerly known as TTR) products include:
Tax Research Essentials for Accountants
Tax Research Standard for Accountants
For small and medium-sized businesses looking to improve accuracy through easy access to reliable research
Built for larger firms seeking access to tax researchers and more robust, on-demand information
Searchable, savable research of tax laws
Sales and use tax rates by city, state, county, and ZIP code
Simplified descriptions of what tax laws mean
Views users can create, export, and share for all product tax answers specific to any industry or state
Straightforward Yes/No answers to questions about whether an item is taxable
History of tax laws and answers for an item
Decision trees users can reference for construction, drop shipping, government contractor, and software maintenance taxability
Unlimited access to Q&A database
Ability to submit questions to tax researchers who respond promptly
Rooftop-level sales and use tax rates accounting for geographic boundaries of states, counties, cities, and special districts
Simplify license management for your clients and make it profitable for your firm
Avalara License Management for Accountants can help accounting firms gain a competitive edge by expanding service offerings to include license management with a recurring revenue model that’s both transparent and profitable.


Become an Avalara partner to take your firm’s tax compliance services to the next level
Become an Avalara partner to take your firm’s tax compliance services to the next level
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Ask how your accounting practice can leverage Avalara technology to help your clients
Connect for scalable accounting solutions
Ask how your accounting practice can leverage Avalara technology to help your clients