These would and scale up to such subjects as instruction on installing Avalara on products such as QuickBooks and NetSuite. There will be exams to test applicants. The offering, scheduled for introduction next month, grew out of requests by state societies. So far, Avalara has established alliances with the Kansas and Maryland societies. It has similar arrangements with PrimeGlobal, MooreStephens and AGN International-North America. Avalara places a link on the websites of its partners that visitors can use to sign up for the Accountants Resource Center, an online repository of information about sales tax. One of the most important subjects covered is the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013.
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Avalara is readying a sales tax certification program for accountants. The Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based sales-and-use tax vendor likens the developing plan to the ProAdvisor program from Intuit. Ray Bigley, the company's VP of business and corporate development, notes "There will be a different levels of certification for sales tax by Avalara." The levels would start by providing talking points to accountants interested in learning about sales tax.
