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News from Avalara: Grow Your Practice Today with Cloud-Based Automation

NEWS FROM AVALARA: GROW YOUR PRACTICE TODAY WITH CLOUD-BASED AUTOMATION

Cost Free
Presentation Length 1.0 hour

Recorded DateMay 25, 2021
CPE:Not available
(archived webinars do not offer CPE credits)
Subject AreaTaxes
Course LevelBasic
Series: Sales Tax
Course Description

Are you a firm that files 20 or more monthly sales tax returns for your clients? Are you looking to grow your practice or add new services without adding staff?  This session is for you. 

We will review Avalara Managed Returns for Accountants (MRA), Avalara’s cloud-based solution designed expressly for accounting professionals. Using MRA, accounting firms can serve their clients more efficiently and with less risk by automating sales tax return prep and filing. And with new features, MRA enables you to offer clients more extended services.   

This session will contain a software demonstration of Managed Returns for Accountants, as well as a free resource: Avalara Crush, the online thought leadership event which will have special accountant activities and announcements on May 27, 2021.

Learning Objectives:


  • Identify how to automate U.S. and Canadian sales tax prep, filing, remittance, and other tasks

  • Define Streamlined Sales Tax (SST), why it matters to your clients, and how you can leverage it to add more services  

  • Identify how to simplify the payment process for clients filing in multiple jurisdictions

  • Outline ways to reduce audit exposure, inaccuracies, late fees, and the burden of notice management

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Sona Akmakjian

Avalara
Senior Director Global Accounting Strategic Partnerships
sona.akmakjian@avalara.com
(206) 826-4900

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Sona is a certified California CPA with 28 years of experience in transnational tax services and automation. Her experience includes working for a state agency administering sales and use taxes, work in a Big Four accounting firm, a tax software company, and mid-market consulting firms.  Sona has strong skills in strategic alliances, executive collaboration, M&A due diligence, project and product management with deep industry experience across multiple market segments, including a specific focus in the enterprise segment.

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John Sallese

Avalara
Director Product Solution Engineering
john.sallese@avalara.com
(855) 259-3274

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John has over 27 years of tax compliance and audit experience working at a Big 4 accounting firm, other tax software providers, and in private industry.  He has advised in various roles, including tax consulting, marketing, implementation, and training.

John’s previous responsibilities include Senior Director Tax Services, Director Product Management, and Manager of Implementations Services. His tax-specific industry experience includes retail, eCommerce, technology, manufacturing, and telecommunications.

About Our Presenter

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Avalara helps businesses of all sizes get tax compliance right. We provide prebuilt integrations with the big-name financial and business management systems you trust, as well as a robust API for do-it-yourself business builders. Avalara delivers cloud-based compliance solutions for transaction tax types, like sales and use, VAT, GST, excise, communications, lodging, and more. If you are an accounting practitioner, Avalara has a suite of Avalara for Accountants solutions, purpose-built to help you directly support your clients. We’re headquartered in Seattle, with offices across the U.S. and in Canada, the U.K., Belgium, Brazil, and India.