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Governments Confront the Challenge of Taxing Digital Advertising
August 27, 2024

Governments globally are wrestling with the challenge of taxing the digital economy, with digital advertising emerging as a key target. As traditional revenue sources from physical businesses face decline, digital platforms like Google and Facebook — dominating the advertising market — are drawing scrutiny from...

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Mind Your B’s and P’s: IRS Notices and Penalties Loom for Unprepared Firms This Fall
August 02, 2024

April has come and gone but a slew of IRS notices loom this fall as companies may be on the hook for erroneously filed returns, or incorrect information tied to details as simple as names and addresses. Wendy Walker, VP, Regulatory Affairs at Sovos, told...

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Arvo Tech Raises $2.5 Million to Expand Tax Credit Platform
July 17, 2024

Arvo Tech has raised $2.5 million in a Series A funding round to deliver its tax strategy solution to more small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)., The company will use the new funding to expand its strategic partner program, continue to develop its tax credit platform...

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Sovos CEO Says Government Tax Compliance Mandates Push CFOs to Modernize
July 11, 2024

Governments around the world are using mandates to modernize and digitize all manner of activities, including how they collect taxes. To get a sense of the task at hand and its complexity, there are 19,000 taxing jurisdictions making thousands of changes, which has a ripple...

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TaxBit and Taina Partner on Gig Economy Onboarding, Tax Reporting
July 08, 2024

Tax compliance solution providers TaxBit and Taina Technology have teamed up to help digital marketplaces with their onboarding and reporting needs related to gig workers. Designed for users in the United States and other countries, the new solution offered by this partnership is designed to...

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CFOs Struggle to Manage Complexities of State Tax Filings
June 05, 2024

Tax season might be over. But then again, there’s always next year. As Wendy Walker, solution principal at Sovos, told PYMNTS, the complexities of tax reporting will still demand that organizations of all sizes gear up for changes in the tax code and rigorous reporting...

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IRS Modernization Efforts Pose Challenges as Enterprises Embrace eFiling  
May 04, 2024

Digital transformation is becoming as inevitable as the reality of paying taxes. And as many companies discovered during the recent tax season, even the IRS is going digital. As Wendy Walker, solution principal at Sovos, told PYMNTS, the Internal Revenue Service’s ongoing digitization efforts pose...

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Sovos Adds Indirect Tax Solution for Global Enterprises
April 30, 2024

Sovos has launched a solution designed to modernize how companies meet global indirect tax obligations. The new Indirect Tax Suite is part of the Sovos Compliance Cloud and helps enterprises manage all their indirect tax obligations with governments, buyers, suppliers and consumers, the provider of compliance solutions said...

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Canada Considering Digital Services Tax Targeting Largest Tech Companies
April 17, 2024

Canada’s Parliament is considering a tax on digital services revenue that would impact the world’s biggest tech companies. The legislation would cover companies’ digital services revenue made from Canadian users, imposing a 3% tax on the revenue above 20 million Canadian dollars (about $14.5 million),...