Expand Your Business with Peace of Mind

In most states, sales and use taxes are imposed on the sale of all tangible personal property and certain specified services unless specifically exempt from this tax under state law. When it comes to sales and use tax for manufacturers and distributors, full and partial exemptions are especially important to apply and keep track of. 

Exemptions to sales and use taxes bring additional complexity to compliance. They can be expressed in several ways: explicitly, e.g., items considered a part of the manufacturing process; as exceptions to the definition of a taxable sale of tangible personal property; or as exclusions from a taxable category of transactions.  

As a tax manager at a manufacturing business or distributor, it’s critical to understand the nature of all transactions, apply tax rates and rules appropriately, and keep an audit trail to avoid or reduce penalties, interest, and assessments. Keeping records and proper management of exemption certificates are crucial when a sales tax auditor comes knocking. The auditor needs your records to help understand your business for the audit and as proof that you have complied with the law. 

CCH SureTax has you covered every step of the way. The end-to-end sales and use tax automation platform is the dependable, configurable, and scalable solution to meet your specific business needs. While more and more businesses in the manufacturing and distribution industry are facing a sales and use tax audit, you will have a proper audit defense with a single source of truth, including exemption certificate management. With CCH SureTax taking care of your sales and use tax matters, you can grow your business with confidence. 

Make CCH® SureTax® Your Solution!

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Configurable


Supports rates and rules customization for non-standard transactions.

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Accurate


Rates and rules backed by Wolters Kluwer’s tax research team.


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Scalable


Seamlessly keeps up with your business growth.


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Complete


Manages your sales tax from A to Z within one platform.


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Stay on top of ever-changing rates and rules
Stay on top of ever-changing rates and rules
There are more than 100,000 changes to sales tax rules and rates every year. To stay compliant, you would need to keep track of and apply each rule correctly to every transaction you have an obligation for. Not anymore! With an up-to-date database and instant calculation, CCH SureTax will do it for you.
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Mitigate non-compliance risk with the sales tax expert
Traditionally complex industries face higher audit risk due to their complexity. Your business has to be sure you are correct on taxes to mitigate that. CCH SureTax is an end-to-end sales tax automation software proven to be an effective solution for complex, high audit risk businesses due to its functionality, expertise, and support.
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Improve an audit trail and manage exemptions effectively
When it comes to sales and use tax, manufacturers and distributors generally face obligations often affected by special circumstances, such as exemptions. CCH SureTax creates a single source of truth and helps manufacturers and distributors to build a strong audit trail allowing them to manage exemption certificates and track nexus.
Reporting
Offload the burden of returns preparation and filing
Keeping track of all changes and collecting tax correctly is a part of the deal to stay compliant. The other part is when you have a sales tax obligation, and you have to remit collected taxes. CCH SureTax offers the most competitive return preparation software and outsourcing services to help you timely prepare and file returns.

CCH® SureTax® Modules

CCH SureTax modules are interconnected and enable a unique end-to-end experience for your sales and use tax operations

  • Rates and Rule
  • Calculation
  • Integration
  • Exemption Certificate Manager (ECM)
  • Reporting
  • Returns
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Rates and Rule
There are more than 24,000 tax jurisdictions you may need to remit taxes to, and they issue more than 100,000 changes every year. In order to keep you in compliance and avoid costly fines and penalties, you must have a dynamic database of rules and rates that you can trust to be kept fully up to date. With CCH SureTax, you will use the same comprehensive tax rules and rates database as the IRS has been using for nearly 10 years. The only difference, besides the data, you will also receive a complete automated solution for all your indirect tax needs. Our experience and expertise combined with the most reliable tax data at your fingertips will give you peace of mind.
Calculation
Calculation

Integrated with your ERP, CCH SureTax assures calculation accuracy by centralizing tax determination across all transactional billing systems. When you make a sale, it calculates the tax required to be collected in milliseconds. In that time, the calculation considers numerous factors relevant to the sale; from the product and industry specifics, to sale location, down to specific building numbers to validate the tax jurisdiction. All of this is automated, recorded, and produced in the time it takes for your customers to run their payment.

Additionally, CCH SureTax allows you to identify nexus achievement in a timely manner and have all transaction details logged in one place for future analysis and reference. 

Integration
Integration
Out-of-the-box, CCH SureTax provides application programming interfaces (APIs) that will connect Calculation® to the most popular ERPs and other order processing platforms.   

Once connected, your ERP and CCH SureTax seamlessly exchange information to identify rates and accurately calculate the right amount of tax to be collected. No “swivel-chair” copying of tax data from one system to another, no delays in processing transactions, and best of all — no operator errors!  

We partner with Microsoft Dynamics®, D365®, NetSuite®, SAP®, Magento®, Salesforce Commerce Cloud®, Acumatica®, and third-party vendors that produce connectors for custom systems. Contact us to learn how CCH SureTax can integrate with your system.
Exemption Certificate Manager (ECM)
Exemption Certificate Manager (ECM)
It is likely that some of your customers will be purchasing from you for subsequent resale or for some other use that is considered tax-exempt. For those customers, you must have their tax exemption certificate on file and apply it to each qualifying transaction. Proper exempt certificate management can save your business from penalties and fees associated with customers' tax exemptions. CCH SureTax has ECM solutions for various needs — from basic certificate management to advanced solution that supports high certificates volume. Contact us today to learn more.
Reporting
Reporting
Accurate reporting is vital to the success and organization of a company. CCH® SureTax® Views module, the most advanced reporting tool in class, not only gives you functional and streamlined reporting but also allows you to customize reports to match whatever your needs may be. The interactive reports help to ensure returns accuracy and let you analyze sales and taxes on a more granular level than the reporting capabilities that your ERP may provide. For instance, with CCH SureTax, you can analyze exempt sales by reason or your revenue by product.
Returns
Returns
Convert your time-consuming return preparation and filing routine into a streamlined process with CCH® SureTax® Returns®. Tax data flows from the calculation engine to returns directly, and there is no need, yet possible, to manually import or consolidate data from multiple sources. Return forms are up-to-date and interactive: the fields will automatically recalculate values if one is edited. You can also save even more time by using our Managed services that will provide you with the file-ready returns.
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Managed Services
Shift your company’s labor-intensive sales and use tax filing burden to the experts from CCH® SureTax® Managed Services®. Outsource your tax returns preparation and filing to the industry’s most highly respected tax company. Let us be an extension of your corporate tax or accounting department.            
 
Professional and Client Services
Professional Services
Improve your indirect tax workflow and ensure you are achieving the highest possible levels of compliance with CCH® SureTax® Professional Services® which include system configuration, evaluations and tax-related process assessments, recommendations, SKU mapping, custom taxability research, and nexus study.

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Talk to an advisor today to learn how Wolters Kluwer's solutions address all aspects of your end-to-end sales and use tax process.
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