Sales Tax, VAT & GST Compliance Services
Four different names for the same problem: tax you collect on someone else's behalf, and have to account for exactly. We run all of them out of one team.
Why firms bring this to us
Indirect tax is where multi-country businesses quietly accumulate liability. A US SaaS company crosses an economic nexus threshold in three states and does not notice for a year. A UK importer applies the wrong VAT treatment to reverse-charge services. A UAE free-zone entity assumes it is out of scope and is not.
None of that is exotic. It happens because indirect tax is coded at transaction level by people looking at something else, and reviewed once a quarter when the return is due.
We code it at source, reconcile the control accounts every month, and tell you before a threshold is crossed rather than after. Where exposure already exists, we quantify it and set out the voluntary-disclosure options rather than letting it compound.
What the engagement covers
- Nexus & registration analysis - Where you have created an obligation, in which jurisdictions, from which date - and what registering late actually costs.
- Return preparation & filing - Prepared, reconciled to the ledger and filed to the deadline in every regime we run.
- Control-account reconciliation - The tax collected, the tax paid and the tax declared reconciled every month, not discovered at year end.
- Exemption & zero-rating review - Certificate management, place-of-supply analysis and reverse-charge treatment for cross-border services.
- Exposure quantification - Where obligations were missed, a written quantification and the voluntary-disclosure route, before an authority finds it first.
- Authority correspondence - Notices, queries and audits handled in writing, with a documented position rather than an improvised one.
The same service, six sets of rules
One team holds all six, which is why cross-border work does not get handed between vendors who each see half of it.
| Country | What we handle |
|---|---|
| United States | Multi-state sales and use tax: economic nexus tracking, registration, marketplace-facilitator rules, exemption certificates and return filing. Avalara and TaxJar. |
| United Kingdom | VAT under Making Tax Digital - registration, quarterly returns, flat-rate and margin schemes, reverse charge and post-Brexit import VAT. |
| Canada | GST/HST federal and provincial filing, input tax credit recovery, and QST for Quebec-facing supplies. |
| Australia | Business Activity Statements and Instalment Activity Statements, GST coding aligned to the BAS period and lodged through your agent. |
| United Arab Emirates | VAT registration, quarterly filing, refund claims and FTA correspondence, including designated-zone treatment. |
| India | GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, GSTR-9 and GSTR-9C, input tax credit reconciliation against GSTR-2B, and e-invoicing compliance. |
Four steps, and you see the work at each one
Nothing here depends on you changing systems, retraining staff or signing a long-term contract.
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Exposure review
Before anything else, where do you already have an obligation you are not meeting? Delivered as a written position with dates and amounts.
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Registration
Where registration is required, we handle it - including late registrations and the disclosure that goes with them.
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Filing cycle
A published calendar per jurisdiction, with preparation, reconciliation, review and filing as separate steps.
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Monitoring
Threshold tracking across states and countries, so the next obligation is flagged before it is triggered, not after.
We work in your stack
We log into your systems with named users and role-based permissions. We do not migrate you onto a platform of ours.
- Avalara
- TaxJar
- Vertex
- Xero
- QuickBooks
- NetSuite
- EmaraTax
- HMRC MTD bridging
- GSTN portal
- ClearTax GST
Asked before
every engagement.
If yours is not here, ask it on the call - we would rather answer it before you commit than after.
We think we have missed registrations. Is that a problem you take on?
It is most of what we take on. Unregistered exposure does not improve with age - penalties and interest compound, and most jurisdictions treat voluntary disclosure far more favorably than discovery on audit. We quantify what is owed, set out the disclosure options with their costs, and you decide.
Do you handle economic nexus monitoring across all US states?
Yes. We track your revenue and transaction counts against each state's threshold and flag an approaching obligation before it is triggered, so registration is a decision rather than an emergency.
Can you work with our Avalara or TaxJar setup?
Yes, and we would rather you keep it. Automation handles rate determination well; it handles nexus judgment, exemption certificates and reconciliation badly. We run the parts that need a person and leave the engine alone.
What about cross-border services between the countries you serve?
That is exactly where the expensive mistakes live - place of supply, reverse charge, and the mismatch between two regimes that both think they have taxing rights. Because we run all six regimes in one team, we see both sides of the transaction rather than one.
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Fourteen hours of indirect tax, free.
One live file, one week, no card and no contract. If the work is not better than what you have, you walk away owning it anyway.