One of the most common consumer use tax issues occurs when vendors neglect to charge, or incorrectly charge, sales tax. Because manually verifying tax rates on each incoming invoice can be impossible, Avalara Consumer Use checks rates according to jurisdiction, product taxability, and any special rules that may affect the sale.

Unburden your finance team and reduce human error by automating the complex, tedious tasks required to correctly manage use tax. Avalara Consumer Use has built-in rates and user-defined rules to determine tax obligations across multiple locations, with complex transactions, automatically.

Avalara Consumer Use identifies and corrects overbilled tax on purchases to keep you from overpaying. It also makes it easy to assess and pay consumer use tax owed, so you can avoid the fines and fees for underpaying.

Create a central source of use tax-related data and maintain a clean audit trail of your self-assessment decisions. Import data from multiple transaction sources, run liability and expense analysis, and more — without relying on expensive custom solutions.

Implement automated or semi-automated processes based on the needs of your business. For example, use rules to confirm consumer use tax for trusted vendors or automatically calculate use tax when the tax paid is zero. You can increase the level of automation as your business grows.

Centralized purchasing often requires use tax to be allocated to multiple locations at multiple tax rates. Automate use tax calculation and allocation; for example: purchasing equipment for one business location, but deploying in another.

Avalara Consumer Use relies on Avalara AvaTax to calculate use tax and integrates with Avalara Returns to prepare and file sales and use tax returns, creating an end-to-end consumer use tax compliance platform.