Tax compliance automation for hotels, resorts, and hospitality businesses
Avalara helps lodging businesses succeed by researching tax rates, consolidating data, and preparing, filing, and remitting hospitality-related taxes.
Video: Avalara for Hospitality streamlines tax compliance by automating resource-draining processes.
Avalara helps solve tax compliance challenges for the hospitality industry
CHALLENGE:
Whether you own one property or a chain of hotels, maintaining accurate tax rates and rules is a labor-intensive process. Getting rates wrong or not understanding your obligations can result in overpaying or underpaying taxes.
SOLUTION:
Avalara experts track lodging tax rates at the city, county, and state level, with regular updates sent to your system automatically.
CHALLENGE:
Manually consolidating data to figure out your tax obligations across multiple business systems, marketplaces, and booking sites is a time-consuming process, prone to human error.
SOLUTION:
Avalara can integrate with your existing hospitality marketplace and business platforms. You'll get consistent rates and reporting across your sales channels and internal systems.
CHALLENGE:
Preparing, filing, and remitting reports for city, county, and state jurisdictions requires a lot of hands-on effort.
SOLUTION:
Offload returns preparation, filing, and remitting to Avalara. We consolidate your tax data and booking records from the systems you already use, then file on your behalf based on deadlines for each jurisdiction.
CHALLENGE:
Guests expect great service from the moment they book until they check out — especially when an interaction involves a transaction.
SOLUTION:
Avalara can help you make sure guests aren’t overcharged on taxes for lodging, food and beverages, sundries, or other purchases from your property. And by leaving tax compliance to us, you can focus on the other things that make their stays memorable.
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Try Avalara MyLodgeTax or Avalara MyLodgeTax Pro.
Our hospitality solution is with you every step of the way
Our hospitality solution is with you every step of the way
Step 1
Consolidate tax data
Our experts work with you to connect with your existing business systems, allowing you to streamline by relying on a single source of information when it comes to reporting.
Step 2
Automate lodging tax compliance
Calculate sales, use, and occupancy tax rates based on tax rules for city, county, and state jurisdictions
Apply sales tax and lodging tax across states and jurisdictions, when appropriate
Step 3
Reduce the burden of filing and remittance
Prepare returns and offload filing according to individual jurisdiction deadlines
Get help with out-of-cycle activities, including notice management, back-filing, and audit support
Step 4
Get the experienced support you need
Our team specializes in hospitality tax. Our tax content is directly sourced — not bought — and is continually researched, providing regularly updated data across a vast range of hospitality services.
Updated Report: Take another look
Stay ahead of trends and legislative changes by reading the Avalara Tax Changes 2024 Midyear Update.
Updated Report: Take another look
Stay ahead of trends and legislative changes by reading the Avalara Tax Changes 2024 Midyear Update.
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