SpeedTax Offers Sales Tax Genius Bar at Sage Summit Customer Event

Sage Software customers get business-critical sales tax questions answered by noted industry expert during one-on-one appointments at annual customer conference

SpeedTax, Inc., a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), fully-automated sales tax management solutions, today announced that during Sage Software’s annual customer event, Sage Summit 2008 in Denver, November 17-20 (www.sagesummit.com), any attendee can take advantage of the Sales Tax Genius Bar, featuring Diana DiBello, SpeedTax Director of Product Development. DiBello’s sales tax expertise has been tapped by media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s magazine, The Journal of Multistate Taxation, and National Public Radio’s “Marketplace”.

The Sales Tax Genius Bar will be located at the SpeedTax Booth #939 during Sage Summit 2008, which will be held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. One-on-one appointments with DiBello will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Sage Summit conference exists to give Sage Software users an opportunity for up-close product insight, best practices, and in-depth, hands-on assistance. Attendees have the opportunity to connect with like-kind software users, meet with Sage product experts, and learn about additional solutions that integrate with Sage products to meet specific business needs, including sales tax management.

“Our goal is to provide Sage customers attending Summit 2008 with an easily accessible expert resource to answer questions related to sales tax and their particular business situation,” said Anton Donde, SpeedTax CEO. “For those Summit attendees who already have sales tax on their ‘to do’ list, the Sales Tax Genius Bar is the perfect no-pressure resource for getting top-of-mind questions answered. Attendees who are just starting to hear about how sales tax issues can have a major impact on the health of their business can make a one-on-one appointment and get an understanding of the issues involved, and possible courses of action to minimize risk to their business.”

In addition to offering the Sales Tax Genius Bar to Sage Summit attendees, SpeedTax is sponsoring an educational sales tax session at Summit called “If They Audit, You Will Pay”, presented by Geni Whitehouse, CPA, CITP. This session occurs on Wednesday, November 19 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Attendees will receive a copy of the new Geni Whitehouse whitepaper, “Why It’s Smart to Put Sales Tax on Your Radar (And even smarter to put it out of your mind)”.

SpeedTax will continue to focus on providing educational tools and resources to Sage Software customers and Business Partners this year, and extending through 2009, including webinars for software users and accountants, white papers such as “How to Choose a Sales Tax Management Solution”, CPE sessions for accountants, additional Sales Tax Genius Bar offerings at events including Sage Insights 2009, and more online tools such as the SpeedTax CPA Questionnaire (www.salestaxquestionnaire.com).

About SpeedTax On-Demand Services

SpeedTax MANAGER™ is a comprehensive sales tax automation and management service built by accountants, for accountants. A Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, it performs real-time, automated sales tax calculations, integrates seamlessly with its customers’ financial or e-commerce systems, and provides automatic returns preparation and filing, while enabling reporting, treasury management and audit defense with sophisticated, web-based compliance management and reporting tools.

SpeedTax MANAGER provides:

•Automatically prepared, signature-ready tax forms. The approval process is streamlined with built-in controls to save time and eliminate human error. Submitting documentation and remittance to the proper taxing authorities is handled automatically, and tools are built in to ensure tax-filing deadlines are anticipated, allowing for consistent, predictable preparation, on time and with a minimum of effort.

•Executive dashboard reports, highly functional management reports, detail reports down to the transaction level, tracking tools and comprehensive audit trail.

•Management of taxability, nexus, sourcing rules, exemptions, exceptions, shipping locations, SST volunteer status and other settings to meet the unique needs of each business.

•A link with each customer’s financial or e-commerce application to deliver correct sales tax calculations directly into their invoicing or customer set-up processes, allowing businesses to avoid rate look-ups and any potential manual error.

•Unmatched accuracy in jurisdiction and rate determinations, powered by SpeedTax Service Engine™ – SpeedTax’s high-performance, rules-based engine that is always up-to-date with geographic data, state rules, and all applicable variables unique to a customer’s business.

SpeedTax MANAGER™: Plus, Core, and Pro

SpeedTax MANAGER comes in three editions: Plus, the comprehensive calculation, reporting and returns service; Core, a pared-down option that automates calculations within the financial or e-commerce application but does not include returns, and SpeedTax MANAGER Pro, the expert-level automation and management service for professionals in the financial and accounting sectors servicing multiple clients. SpeedTax MANAGER Pro users get all the benefits of SpeedTax MANAGER Core and SpeedTax MANAGER Plus—with additional multi-client tools and custom reporting tools to help manage sales tax for a portfolio of multiple clients.

About SpeedTax

Headquartered in Laguna Hills, California, SpeedTax was founded on the premise that businesses of all sizes should be able to confidently, accurately and affordably outsource the most tedious, repetitious and time-consuming aspects of sales tax compliance – researching, calculating, posting, reporting and remitting sales taxes – while simultaneously acquiring the ability to better manage their business via online, real-time access to sales tax data. SpeedTax understands that customers want to feel fully confident in the event of an audit, but also believes that customers deserve much more from a complete sales tax management solution.

For more information on SpeedTax on-demand services, visit www.speedtax.com, call us at 888.349.2441, or contact us via email at pr {at} speedtax(.)com.

Contacts

Brian Austin
Director of Public Relations
SpeedTax
949.215.1177 (Office)
707.799.9838 (Mobile)
brianaustin {at} speedtax(.)com