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Vertex^® Communications Tax Solutions

We help you keep up with complex and constantly changing communications taxation.

News: Vertex Communications Tax Q Series and GeoCoder Advantage/GeoCoder Plus 4 Data Certified by Florida Department of Revenue

Communications service providers rely on Vertex to ensure the bills they send to customers, and the taxes they remit to jurisdictions, are accurate and up-to-date with the ever-changing rates in this complex area of taxation. Whether you have an in-house developed billing system, a commercial billing application, or completely outsourced billing, a Vertex solution can be the foundation of your communications tax processes.

We have partnered with leading communications billing service bureaus and billing software providers to integrate our software into host billing systems, creating a comprehensive solution that allows users to accurately calculate tax on customer bills. And applying the correct tax rate to invoices can be the difference between a long-term satisfied customer, or a customer who considers the promotional offer of another service provider.

But tax calculations are only as accurate as the rates and rules being applied to them. With more than 25-years of researching rates and rules in taxing jurisdictions across the U.S., Vertex also provides comprehensive monthly updates of sales tax and utility tax rate changes that can be downloaded into your system to help ensure your business is calculating tax accurately. In addition, Vertex pre-populates our exclusive tax matrices with tax decisions and ordinances related to communications tax that could potentially affect your business.

With the Vertex Communications Tax L Series GeoCoder Plus 4 programs in C and COBOL, which make use of a USPS enhanced ZIP Code (Zip+4) file, companies can achieve compliance with the Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act (MTSA). A data-only-solutions is available as well.

Telecommunication service providers are turning to Vertex^® Exemption Certificate Manager™
Telecommunication service providers are always trying to reduce audit exposure and simplify management of exemption certificates. Because of the exceptionally high volume of exemption certificates that must be managed for telecommunication service providers, some companies fail to produce up to 30% of their exemption certificates during audits, leading to the potential for significant assessments and penalties. Vertex Exemption Certificate Manager (ECM) can reduce this risk through improved certificate management and streamlined audit processes.

This web-based storage and management tool automates the collection and maintenance of exemption certificates, simplifying the labor-intensive process of manually managing paper certificates. And with the certificates and information you need easily accessible, Vertex ECM supports compliance with sales tax and communications tax exemption requirements, allows audits to proceed faster, and minimizes the penalties from failure to produce valid certificates.

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