CorpSystem® Sales Tax Office Real time tax calculation, accurate sourcing and hassle-free returns
Reduce the time you spend monitoring and updating tax rate and taxability rules with CorpSystem Sales Tax Office, the state-of-the-art tax calculation system from CCH. Combine industry-leading tax rate and taxability content from CCH with highly accurate jurisdiction boundary information and sophisticated logic capable of supporting the most complex situsing and tax calculation rules.
Sales Tax Office handles real-time calculations for multiple business entities and/or divisions, multiple ERP modules or even different ERP systems. All calculation transactions are logged for end-of-month liability reporting and secondary audit defense.
Once configured, Sales Tax Office works behind the scenes with minimal user interaction. Product SKUs are mapped to CCH groups and items, with customer products, rules and tax rate overrides all supported. The monthly update takes only minutes, eliminating the need to research tax rates and rules.
Effortless Set-up and Maintenance — Configure the system to meet your needs, with options for business entities, business rules, nexus rules, users and functional permissions.
Rates and Taxability — Stay up-to-date with trusted rate and taxability data form CCH, updated monthly with a simple download.
Nexus, Jurisdiction and Situsing — Avoid collecting unnecessary taxes by accurately establishing nexus and determining which taxes must be collected, with state-of-the-art geocoding and spatial analysis based on ship-from, ship-to, order placement and order approval addresses.
Flexible Calculation — Calculate taxes at the line item level, use multiple ship-from and ship-to combinations in a single invoice, manage minimum and maximum tax rules, and handle complex tax calculation routines involving tax brackets, tax charts and tiered taxes.
User-Friendly Interface — Query, view and interact with transactions by drilling down into the details of a transaction, creating and viewing liability reports, creating and maintaining custom taxes and overrides, and originating tax only credits.
Simple Exemption Management — Rely on the 15 built-in exemption reason classifications or create custom exemption classes as required. With Sales Tax Office, there is no need to maintain multiple customer records when the customer’s exempt status varies from state to state.
End-of-Month Compliance — Simplify the end-of-month reconciliation process by running liability reports based on specified date ranges, audit reports for taxes and exemptions, and output files for delivery to Sales Tax Returns Online.
Accurate Jurisdictional Determination and Situsing
By partnering with First American Spatial Solutions (formerly Proxix Solutions), CCH has developed a comprehensive database of boundary definitions and tax matrices for state, county, city local and special tax districts. Sales Tax Office provides an extremely accurate foundation for both nexus and situs determination, with highly granular boundary data and enhanced coverage of special tax districts
Seamless End-of-Month Compliance
Sales Tax Returns Online lets you save time and eliminate errors by automatically populating your sales and use tax forms, schedules and worksheets with tax information from Sales Tax Office. Review, edit, print, audit and even e-file these signature returns, and download Detail Filing Reports to streamline your check request process.
Along with state-of-the-art Sales Tax Office software, the Sales Tax Office base system includes an all-states subscription to CCH general merchandise data, a Subscription Update Manager utility that manages the data updates, and web services APIs to facilitate rapid integration with your ERP/accounting system.
In addition to the Sales Tax Office base system and returns solution, CCH also offers:
Specialized Product Group and Item Databases — Add-on databases include food, restaurant and durable medical equipment databases, available as annual subscriptions.
Sales Tax Office API for Microsoft Dynamics AX — Create seamless integration between Sales Tax Office and Mixrosoft Dynamics AX.
Sales Tax Address Validation API — Ensure reliable address information by integrating real-time address scrubbing and validation.
