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    What Zappos, Netflix and Vertex Share

    What is it that Vertex shares with Netflix and Zappos? At our core we believe in enabling people to feel a greater sense of meaning, purpose and satisfaction at work. This in turn serves to drive innovation and performance. Gallup’s 2013 State of the American Workplace study reinforces this by revealing, “the 30 million engaged employees in the U.S. come up with most of the innovative ideas, create most of a company’s new customers, and have the most entrepreneurial energy.”
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    Checking in on the Hospitality Industry’s Tax Challenges

    Whether you’re a bed and breakfast, an online travel agency (OTA) or a hotel chain, accurate tax calculation is critical. While these calculations have always been complex, the ramifications of non-compliance have never been higher. Companies in the hospitality industry -- especially hotels and other lodging businesses – face intense challenges in light of a spike in litigation over lodging and occupancy taxes. Headlines from business pages and digital publications throughout the country demonstrate this surge.
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    Temps and Tax Returns - Think Twice

    Recently, I attended the Association of Consumer Vehicle Lessors (ACVL) annual conference in New Orleans, where many of the country’s leading vehicle lessors met to discuss numerous business topics, including tax.
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    The Paparazzi Focus on Tax Transparency

    Thanks to social media, communications and technology advances and the public's insatiable appetite for information, sensationalizing corporate tax-planning activities has become a favorite pastime of the news media, activist groups and politicians. Never mind that these legal tax-planning activities are performed for the purpose of increasing shareholder value (and employee value). Campaigns of “tax shaming” are carried out by a growing throng of paparazzi that post “exposés” online and in print. Tax transparency demands are no longer just in the realm of regulators and taxing authorities.
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    5 Small Business Tips for Audit Protection

    When it comes to sales & use tax for small to medium-sized businesses, it is critical to understand what makes you compliant, and what puts you at risk.
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    Standardized Global Tax Processing No Longer a Pipe Dream

    Imagine a single technology platform in which a global company’s entire tax processing is performed according to a set of standardized processes … delivering unprecedented levels of transparency, governance and control.
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    Brave, New, Uncertain World for Retailers (Retail Tax Challenges, Part II)

    In my previous post, I discussed several of the primary challenges that confront retail tax functions. Tax automation can help address these challenges while delivering confidence that requirements are being met, as well as establishing a foundation for more efficient and effective compliance and reducing audit exposure.
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    Tax Plunges into the Era of Hyper-Regulation

    Twenty-five thousand... That’s roughly how many legislative changes have occurred around the world regarding tax in the past 12 months – and that is just in the area of transaction taxes.
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    Industry Focus: Retail Tax Challenges, Part 1

    “Unprecedented disruption and change” is the phrase that a Deloitte report uses to describe the current state of the retail industry. This extraordinary period of retail-industry disturbance is giving rise to new tax challenges, which in turn are motivating more tax functions to invest in automation to achieve greater efficiencies and free up tax professionals to engage in more valuable activities.
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    How to Hire a Returns Outsourcing Provider

    At first glance, the process of selecting a sales and use tax returns outsourcing provider may appear complicated. The nature and quality of service these outsourcers deliver varies, often in important ways. Some outsourcers are true “partners;” others are little more than a collection of temp workers.
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    Transfer Pricing: A Three-Dimensional Challenge

    Transfer pricing remains a major risk to companies around the world. In fact, it was the top tax risk identified by the 800-plus global tax and finance executives who participated in EY’s 2014 survey on Tax Risk. The growing complexity of worldwide transfer pricing rules continues to present a three dimensional challenge for multinational companies ("MNCs") with respect to documentation requirements, transparency initiatives and audits. Scrutiny of a company's transfer pricing is not only limited to tax authorities, but also now comes from the media and other activists and NGO's.
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