Overview Taxware Enterprise is the industry's most robust and flexible tax calculation solution - combining market leading tax research with the latest technology. Operating as an integral part of your existing financial or accounting system, Taxware Enterprise automatically calculates taxes for sales, purchases and rentals. With Taxware Enterprise, time spent on tax compliance decreases, accuracy is improved and risk is reduced. The internal controls offered by Taxware Enterprise are a critical component of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance. Taxware Enterprise is a fully automated system that includes built-in functionality to support audit defense, eliminate obsolete data, and comply with changing tax laws.

Updated as needed by ADP Taxware's market-leading tax attorneys and analysts, Taxware Enterprise covers all U.S. and Canadian taxes as well as calculation of value added and other consumption taxes for over 200 countries around the world. With its modular and configurable approach to deployment, Taxware Enterprise can provide a complete solution for your business's global transaction tax needs. Furthermore, Taxware Enterprise easily integrates with leading e-commerce and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications as well as Taxware's filing and compliance solutions.

Key Features

• A single tax engine for sales, use, value added, and other consumption taxes
• Architected on market-leading technology
• Content certified by the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board
• The industry's most comprehensive Taxability Matrix with integrated global research covering thousands of industry-specific product, service, entity and use-based rules

• Robust, easy-to-use user interface and intuitive workflow
• Multi-organization support with the ability to copy or share rules between business units
• Tax rules are encapsulated in the data structure to enable rapid law change releases and easier application of updates
• Flexible and easy to implement interfaces
• Sophisticated address validation and robust exemption processing, including support for invoice level rules
• Ability to add custom tax jurisdictions, Geo-codes, goods/service codes, entity/use codes, and associated tax rules
• Easy exemption certificate tracking
• Reporting tools available to support Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

Tax Rule Content In addition to standard tax rules, ADP Taxware provides tax research rules (which can be optionally over-ridden) for the following types of tax rules:

• Special rates, exemptions, thresholds, and limitations
• Taxing jurisdiction boundaries
• Situsing
• Tax Point
• Taxable amount adjustments (deliver, delivery insurance, discounts, coupons etc)
• Goods/Service
• Entity/Use tax rules
• Urban enterprise zones
• Rounding Rules

Functionality

• Unified tax solution for thousands of jurisdictions in more than 200 countries
• Abbreviation translation capability and custom street level data make the Geo-code selection process less manual and more controlled. User can further configure the system to automatically select the highest or lowest rate
• Multiple transaction dates (order recording date, shipment date, invoice date, etc.) compared to determine the appropriate Tax Point
• Complex situsing / sourcing rules support scores of industries
• Delivery charges, discount amounts and other taxable amount adjustments applies the taxability of other line items and are treated as "exclusions" (instead of "exemptions"), increasing calculation accuracy

• Accommodates millions of complex scenarios, including exemptions, special rates, caps and thresholds, in a "rule hierarchy" that determines the appropriate combination of rules
• "Tax Decision Codes" identify why calculation decisions were made through-out every step in the liability determination process

Flexibility

• Allows for centralizing and decentralizing different compliance activities across organizations, while keeping control of tax decisions in the tax department
• Modular product versions, enabling customers to purchase only subsets of the tax research
• Enhanced security that allows for restrictions on data access privileges for the appropriate users
• Tax rule customization abilities are sufficiently flexible to accommodate almost any business need

Market Leading Technology

• Java 2 Enterprise Edition- (J2EE) based development, allowing for support of multiple operating platforms and databases
• XML interface that supports standards such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web service
• Rule-based structure dramatically reduces the need for major software enhancements, and accelerates the update process
• Optionally offered as a hosted service, resulting in decreased maintenance requirements and an easier setup
• Support for Unicode, allowing Taxware Enterprise to receive, send, store and display multiple-byte Asian, Arabic and other languages

Ease of Use

• Automatic or manual tax research update
• Tax professionals can set up and maintain Taxware Enterprise with minimal IT support
• Graphical User Interface with streamlined workflow enables access to Taxware Enterprise from any Internet browser
• Global good/service coding scheme requires only one mapping
• Decreased Cost of Ownership
• Centralize shared service compliance activities and share parent customers, vendors, locations, good/service mappings, and custom rules across child organizations.
  • Integrates seamlessly with client-created systems as well as leading financial, accounting and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
  • No need to install software on PC's
  • Calculation results may be fed into TaxSolver, Taxware's filing solution, for automated tax returns and reporting

The Multiple Dimensions of Taxware's Taxability Matrix

• Where? Thousands of jurisdictions in over 200 countries
• What? Thousands of goods/service rules
• How Used & Who? Tax rules maintained for special types of entities or how the good or service is used
• When? Special tax point rules maintained for different jurisdictions
• How Much? Taxable amount adjustment rules for delivery charges/insurance and discounts.