SpeedTax Offers Free Sales Tax Webinar Series through March

“Sales Tax Demystified for e-Commerce Businesses”
“Sales Tax Survival Tools for California Businesses”
“7 Risk Areas of Sales Tax Compliance”

Attendees will learn how to minimize sales tax audit risk, streamline business processes, reduce overhead, and implement affordable, effective sales tax management solutions

SpeedTax, Inc., a provider of Software as a Service (SaaS), fully-automated sales tax management solutions, today announced a free webinar series running through March and geared toward e-Commerce businesses, California businesses, and any business interested in learning about the 7 Risk Areas of Sales Tax Compliance.

Sales tax audits are a rising threat to businesses of all sizes as state revenues decline. In order to help businesses better understand the risks they face, and take steps to mitigate those risks, SpeedTax is inviting businesses throughout the country to take advantage of a free educational webinar series. Attendees at each of the three webinars will learn what audit risks their businesses face, gain a better understanding of where potential exposure exists, and find out how SpeedTax can cost-effectively protect their business in the event of a sales tax audit while simultaneously simplifying their business processes.

Registration is now open for the following webinars in March:

Sales Tax Solved for Online Sellers. E-Commerce businesses can conquer the challenges of sales tax complexities by making correct rate determinations, keeping up with frequent sales tax rules changes, factoring in product taxability, and streamlining their filing and remittance. Attendees will leave this webinar with clear direction on how to secure their business in the event of a sales tax audit.

Date and Time: March 12, 2009, 10-11am, PST

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Sales tax audits are a rising threat to California businesses as state revenues decline. Learn about ways to minimize your sales tax audit risk while reducing overhead using a Web-based Software-as-a-Service solution. State sales tax auditors are on a mission, and will be targeting nearly all ZIP codes throughout California. Find out what creates the greatest exposure for California businesses, and how to easily and affordably outsource sales tax compliance risk.

Date and Time: March 19, 2009, 10-11am, PST

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Understand how the 7 risk areas of sales tax compliance can protect your business. Attendees will learn how to assess their risk levels within the categories of audit defense, nexus, taxability, use tax, filing, exemptions, and current practices, and will leave the webinar with clear direction on how to secure maximum protection for their business in the event of a sales tax audit.

Date and Time: March 26, 2009, 10-11am, PST

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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.

About SpeedTax On-Demand Services

SpeedTax 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.

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.

Contacts

SpeedTax
Brian Austin, Director of Public Relations
949-215-1177 (Office)
707-799-9838 (Mobile)
brianaustin {at} speedtax(.)com