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Sales Tax, VAT & GST Exposure Tracking

See every threshold
before you cross it.

Continuous monitoring of your sales against every registration threshold: US state economic nexus, EU and UK VAT and OSS, and GST worldwide. Wired into your billing and ERP data, alerting before you cross, and carrying you from alert to registration to first filing.

Exposure grows quietly
between annual reviews.

Registration thresholds don't announce themselves. They're crossed mid-quarter, by ordinary sales, while everyone is looking elsewhere. And the liability starts on the day you cross, not on the day you find out.

  • The annual exposure study goes stale fast

    A study is a snapshot. Your sales keep moving the day after it's delivered, and a jurisdiction you were nowhere near in January can be crossed by June. You owe back taxes from the day you crossed.

  • One big invoice can do it

    A single large invoice into a state or country can breach a registration threshold on its own. Deal-driven revenue makes thresholds a transaction-level question, not an annual one.

  • Operations create obligations too

    A remote hire, inventory moved into a 3PL, a contractor on the ground. In the US, physical nexus arrives through decisions made outside the finance team, and nobody circles back to check the tax consequence.

What you get

What the service includes.

Continuous monitoring, not annual studies

Your transaction data runs against every registration threshold continuously: sales tax, VAT, and GST. Your position in every jurisdiction is current, not as-of last year's study.

Wired into billing and ERP

Stripe, Shopify, NetSuite, QuickBooks, BigCommerce, Chargebee, and CSV for anything not native. Transactions consolidate into one ledger tagged by jurisdiction; that ledger is what monitoring runs on.

Alerts before you cross

Alerts trigger well before you cross a threshold, not on the day you do, so there's time to register and be ready to collect before the obligation starts.

US physical nexus signals tracked

Employees, inventory, and 3PLs tracked alongside the economic thresholds, because in the US a remote hire or a warehouse move creates nexus just as surely as revenue does.

US states and countries worldwide

All 50 US states tracked, including Wayfair economic nexus rules, plus EU and UK VAT thresholds, OSS distance-selling thresholds across member states, and GST registration thresholds in jurisdictions like Australia, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, and India.

From alert to first filing

When a threshold is crossed, the same platform registers you and sets up the return cadence. The alert has a next step attached: confirm, register, file.

How it works

From baseline study
to standing watch.

Monitoring starts with a baseline, then never stops running.

  1. Step 01

    Connect the data

    Your billing and ERP systems connect once. Transactions consolidate into a single ledger tagged by ship-to jurisdiction.

  2. Step 02

    Baseline exposure map

    A jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction position: where you already owe and since when, where you're approaching a threshold, and where you're clear.

  3. Step 03

    Continuous monitoring

    Every new transaction updates the picture. Alerts fire as you approach thresholds, with the numbers behind them, not just a red flag.

  4. Step 04

    Register and file when it's time

    Cross a threshold and the platform carries you through registration and into the filing calendar. No handoff to another vendor, no gap where liability accrues.

Do your own reading

The thresholds,
state by state.

For the US side of the map, our nexus guide lays out the economic and physical nexus rules for every state. Read it to understand the rules; connect your data when you want to know where you stand against them.

Read the US nexus guide

A snapshot,
or a standing watch.

The difference isn't the analysis; any advisor can run a study. The difference is what happens the day after, and every day after that.

The annual review

A snapshot that ages badly.

  • Thresholds checked once a year, if that
  • Thresholds crossed months before anyone looks
  • Spreadsheet math on exported data
  • Physical presence signals nobody reports
  • Findings handed to you as homework
  • Back taxes from the day you crossed

Commenda exposure tracking

A standing watch with a next step.

  • Monitoring runs against live transaction data
  • Alerts before you cross, not after
  • Sales thresholds and physical signals tracked together
  • US states and 70+ countries in one view
  • Registration triggered from the alert
  • First filing on the same platform

Where it fits

Monitoring is where
compliance begins.

Exposure tracking decides when a jurisdiction enters your filing calendar. From there, the registration and filing service runs the returns, and the US sales tax, VAT, and GST services define what compliance means in each regime. One platform, one dataset.

Common questions

The questions finance teams ask before turning on exposure tracking.

Stop finding out about
thresholds after the fact.

Book a 30-minute call. We'll run an exposure analysis on your transaction data and show you exactly where you stand, at no charge, no obligation.