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Reinventing Finance and Tax: Leaders see AI and e-invoicing as agents of change

Finance and tax teams are embracing a new era: one where artificial intelligence and automation are not just tools for improving efficiency but serious powerhouses in ensuring compliance across an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. Today’s businesses face growing pressure to comply with global e-invoicing and live reporting mandates. These challenges are added to an already overflowing plate of international and domestic tax compliance obligations.

Cross-border ecommerce trends: How global businesses are adapting to growth, regulation, and risk

Significant growth in global ecommerce is creating new opportunities for businesses worldwide. The chance to enter new markets also presents challenges, especially where logistics and compliance with complex trade regulations are concerned. To understand how businesses are adapting to this shift, Censuswide surveyed 903 executives overseeing global logistics, supply chain, and international trade compliance.

How to implement property tax compliance automation

For a long time, businesses had limited options for managing property tax compliance. They could handle it manually — calling on in-house tax and finance managers up to their furrowed brows in spreadsheets or relying on outdated technology solutions — or outsource to accounting or specialized consulting firms. Then came advanced property tax compliance automation, offering an alternative that can save businesses time and money.

Personal property tax can be more mind-boggling in these states

Great literature is full of head-scratchers. Some questions are tough to answer: the Sphinx’s riddle in Oedipus Rex, the lead casket that contains Portia’s picture in The Merchant of Venice, Gollum’s brainteasers in The Hobbit. Property tax compliance can be just as puzzling, and getting it right in some states can be more complex than in others. This blog post sheds light on what makes personal property tax compliance in certain states particularly tricky.

Property tax and licensing compliance for mergers and acquisitions

According to Gartner, in 2024, the success of enterprises entering into mergers and acquisitions (M&A) depends partly on their ability to navigate “an increasingly complex regulatory environment.” While Gartner points to anti-competition and national security as significant concerns and subjects of scrutiny, companies must also consider how M&A activity can make property tax compliance and licensing more complex.

2024 communications tax changes - Avalara

The communications industry and technology are intrinsically entwined. Both are constantly changing and the sheer volume of communications services and products makes it tough to keep track of what innovations are subject to communications tax. This is made even harder when states pass new legislation. What’s obvious is that communications services are increasingly playing a bigger role in how we spend our lives and do our jobs.
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