While most states have groceries sales tax-exempt or at a reduced rate, prepared food is almost always taxed and has multiple layers of tax complexity. There is no rule of thumb to determine when you should collect sales tax or what items are exempt, except by doing thorough research or relying on sales and use tax software, such as CCH® SureTax®. For example, cold prepared food in California is not taxable. However, if you sell it as part of a combo with other products, the sale can be taxable. The complex nature of sales and use tax in this industry can create frustration, and confusion, and open your company up to liability when it comes to an audit.
The good news is CCH SureTax has you covered every step of the way and creates a single source of truth for sales and use tax. The end-to-end sales and use tax automation platform is the dependable solution to help you expand your presence, such as offering food delivery in new areas, and keep your retail business tax compliant.
Make CCH® SureTax® Your Solution!
The good news is CCH SureTax has you covered every step of the way and creates a single source of truth for sales and use tax. The end-to-end sales and use tax automation platform is the dependable solution to help you expand your presence, such as offering food delivery in new areas, and keep your retail business tax compliant.
Make CCH® SureTax® Your Solution!
End-to-end solution for your sales tax needs
Instant
Applies rates and rules and calculates sales tax in milliseconds.
Accurate
Rates and rules backed up by Wolters Kluwer’s tax research team.
Scalable
Seamlessly keeps up with your business growth.
Complete
Manages your sales tax from A to Z within one platform.
New or Existing Customer?
Stay on top of ever-changing rates and rules
There are more than 100,000 changes to sales tax rules and rates every year. To stay compliant, you would need to keep track of and apply each rule correctly to every transaction you have an obligation for. Not anymore! With an up-to-date database and instant calculation, CCH SureTax will do it for you.
Manage all your channels and locations effortlessly
CCH SureTax is the end-to-end sales tax automation platform that integrates with your existing channels — delivery services, brick-and-mortar sales, and multiple locations. It creates a single source of truth, allowing you to seamlessly manage sales tax in one place.
Offload the burden of returns preparation and filing
Keeping track of all changes and collecting tax correctly is a necessity to stay compliant as well as remitting them to the correct authority. CCH SureTax offers the most competitive return preparation software and managed services to help you effortlessly prepare and file returns.
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Integration
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Exemption Certificate Manager (ECM)
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Reporting
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Rates and Rule
There are more than 24,000 tax jurisdictions you may need to remit taxes to, and they issue more than 100,000 changes every year. In to keep you in compliance and avoid costly fines and penalties, you must have a dynamic database of rules and rates that you can trust to be kept fully up to date. With CCH SureTax, you will use the same comprehensive tax rules and rates database as the IRS has been using for nearly 10 years. The only difference, besides the data, you will also receive a complete automated solution for all your indirect tax needs. Our experience and expertise combined with the most reliable tax data at your fingertips will give you peace of mind.
Calculation
Integrated with your ERP, POS, or billing system, CCH SureTax assures calculation accuracy by centralizing tax determination. When you make a sale, it calculates the tax required to be collected in milliseconds. In that time, the calculation considers numerous factors relevant to the sale; from the product and industry specifics, to sale location, down to specific address to validate the tax jurisdiction. All of this is automated, recorded, and produced in the time it takes for your customers to run their payment.
Integration
Out-of-the-box, CCH SureTax provides application programming interfaces (APIs) that will connect Calculation® to the most popular ERPs and other order processing platforms.
Once connected, your ERP and CCH SureTax seamlessly exchange information to identify rates and accurately calculate the right amount of tax to be collected. No “swivel-chair” copying of tax data from one system to another, no delays in processing transactions, and best of all — no operator errors!
Exemption Certificate Manager (ECM)
It is likely that some of your customers will be purchasing from you for subsequent resale or for some other use that is considered tax-exempt. For those customers, you must have their tax exemption certificate on file and apply it to each qualifying transaction. Proper exempt certificate management can save your business from penalties and fees associated with customers' tax exemptions. CCH SureTax has ECM solutions for various needs — from basic certificate management to advanced solution that supports high certificates volumes and complexity.
Reporting
Accurate reporting is vital to the success and organization of a company. CCH® SureTax® Views module, the most advanced reporting tool in class, not only gives you functional and streamlined reporting but also allows you to customize reports to match whatever your needs may be. The interactive reports help to ensure returns accuracy and let you analyze sales and taxes on a more granular level than the reporting capabilities that your ERP may provide. For instance, with CCH SureTax, you can analyze exempt sales by reason or your revenue by product.
Returns
Convert your time-consuming return preparation and filing routine into a streamlined process with CCH® SureTax® Returns®. Tax data flows from the calculation engine to returns directly, and there is no need, yet possible, to manually import or consolidate data from multiple sources. Return forms are up-to-date and interactive: the fields will automatically recalculate values if one is edited. You can also save even more time by using our Managed services that will provide you with the file-ready returns.
Managed Services
Shift your company’s labor-intensive sales and use tax filing burden to the experts from CCH® SureTax® Managed Services®. Outsource your tax returns preparation and filing to the industry’s most highly respected tax company. Let us be an extension of your corporate tax or accounting department
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Professional Services
Improve your indirect tax workflow and ensure you are achieving the highest possible levels of compliance with CCH® SureTax® Professional Services® which include system configuration, evaluations and tax-related process assessments, recommendations, SKU mapping, custom taxability research, and nexus study.