Services: What We Offer.
Real life experience is everything. Experience means the difference between building the right long-term solution vs. a partial solution that does not deliver the benefits on which the project was approved in the first place. Our extensive experience implementing transaction tax solutions ensures that projects will be diligently and professionally executed, and you will not experience a costly learning curve.
BUSINESS CASE/ROI ANALYSIS Considering a tax systems implementation but don't know if the project will yield a positive return on investment? We can help you build an objective business case which factors in the savings opportunities (both hard dollar savings along with process efficiency improvements) against the estimated implementation costs (internal & external). We can help you create an ROI analysis with minimal investment. In many cases the investment is justified; however in some cases the value proposition simply is not compelling enough to warrant the investment of your resources and the financial commitment.
TAX SOFTWARE EVALUATION & SELECTION Navigating through the software selection process can be a challenge. DSTax can help you define an objective set of criteria upon which the software choices can be evaluated against. are a number of considerations that need to go into selecting the right solution for your organization including the ability to support your tax requirements and unique tax calculation needs; ease/complexity of integrating with your financial system; support for your IT infrastructure standards; and of course cost. We have extensive experience helping clients evaluate software and software as service offerings for transaction tax calculation systems, exemption certificate management solutions, and address validation.
TRANSACTION TAX SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION We have extensive experience helping clients implement third-party transaction tax solutions including Vertex, Thomson Reuters (Sabrix), and Taxware. Each project is unique and we have the expertise and experience necessary to ensure the solution meets your business requirements.
Our team is capable of handling all aspects of these complex projects including:
SPECIALIZED INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS DSTax has in-depth expertise in various industries and their unique tax requirements. Some examples include:
BUSINESS CASE/ROI ANALYSIS Considering a tax systems implementation but don't know if the project will yield a positive return on investment? We can help you build an objective business case which factors in the savings opportunities (both hard dollar savings along with process efficiency improvements) against the estimated implementation costs (internal & external). We can help you create an ROI analysis with minimal investment. In many cases the investment is justified; however in some cases the value proposition simply is not compelling enough to warrant the investment of your resources and the financial commitment.
TAX SOFTWARE EVALUATION & SELECTION Navigating through the software selection process can be a challenge. DSTax can help you define an objective set of criteria upon which the software choices can be evaluated against. are a number of considerations that need to go into selecting the right solution for your organization including the ability to support your tax requirements and unique tax calculation needs; ease/complexity of integrating with your financial system; support for your IT infrastructure standards; and of course cost. We have extensive experience helping clients evaluate software and software as service offerings for transaction tax calculation systems, exemption certificate management solutions, and address validation.
TRANSACTION TAX SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION We have extensive experience helping clients implement third-party transaction tax solutions including Vertex, Thomson Reuters (Sabrix), and Taxware. Each project is unique and we have the expertise and experience necessary to ensure the solution meets your business requirements.
Our team is capable of handling all aspects of these complex projects including:
- Identifying business & technical requirements
- Functional and technical design
- Product taxability research
- Technical integration with web storefronts, billing, procurement, and asset/inventory movement systems
- Tax business rules configuration
- Customer master cleansing including implementing exemption certificate management and address validation solutions
- System integration and user acceptance testing
- Functional and technical training
- Designing and implementing production "steady state" processes which will be required to ensure the solution keeps up with business changes once in production
- Project and change management
- Production support to ensure the transition to the new solution goes smoothly
SPECIALIZED INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS DSTax has in-depth expertise in various industries and their unique tax requirements. Some examples include:
- Manufacturing - The taxability decisions on purchases for manufacturers are complex and multidimensional. Our proprietary "Use Cube" toolkit and taxability content significantly streamlines the implementation of procurement / use tax solutions for manufacturers
- Construction Contracting - Implementing a tax determination solution for the construction contracting industry can be daunting. A best practices solution must address both customer invoicing and job costs for every transactional touch point. Our proven methodology and industry specific taxability content for the construction contracting industry can help you efficiently and successfully implement a sales and use tax solution
- Healthcare Providers - While many states provide broad exemptions related to healthcare items, others do not. In these states the providers themselves frequently absorb the tax obligations, negatively impacting their bottom lines. DSTax helps these practices recoup their erroneously paid taxes so they can focus on patient care