Indirect Tax Registration & Filing
Registered, filed, and paid
in every jurisdiction.
The operational core of indirect tax: registering for VAT, GST, and sales tax in new jurisdictions, preparing returns from your transaction data, filing on every local cadence, remitting every payment, and keeping every deadline on one calendar.
Trusted by global businesses
Filing is where indirect tax
programs break down.
Knowing where you owe is analysis. Registering, preparing, filing, and paying, in every jurisdiction, every period, forever, is operations. It's the part that consumes finance teams, and the part where a missed deadline turns directly into penalties.
Registration is a project every time
Every jurisdiction has its own forms, portals, supporting documents, and processing quirks. Some require local representation before they'll even accept the application. Each new country restarts the learning curve from zero.
Return prep by spreadsheet
Export the transactions, reconcile them, map them to each jurisdiction's boxes, repeat next period. Every manual step is a place an error can enter, and the error surfaces months later as a notice.
Payments across borders
Remitting in local currency to the right authority account, on time, with proof it arrived. Multiply by every jurisdiction and every period, and payment logistics becomes its own job.
What you get
What the service includes.
Registration in new jurisdictions
VAT numbers across the EU and UK, sales tax permits in all 50 US states, GST registrations in Australia, Singapore, Canada, New Zealand, and more. Applications prepared, authorities chased, registrations delivered.
Returns prepared from transaction data
Transaction-level data pulls from your ERP and billing systems, no CSV uploads or manual extraction. Each return is built per that jurisdiction's rules and sent to you for review before filing.
Filed on every local cadence
Monthly, quarterly, or annually, depending on local rules and your assigned frequency. VAT, GST, and sales tax returns filed on time, every period, in every jurisdiction.
Payments remitted and confirmed
The amount due is calculated with each return, you approve it, and remittance is handled and tracked per jurisdiction, local currency included. Confirmation lands for every filing period.
One calendar of every filing
Every registration, return, and payment deadline across every jurisdiction, visible in one place with its status. Nothing lives in an advisor's inbox or a spreadsheet tab.
Amendments and notices
Amended returns handled where errors are identified, and tax authority correspondence answered by us, not forwarded to you to decipher.
How it works
From obligation
to confirmation.
The same workflow for one new jurisdiction or a full takeover of an existing multi-country filing operation.
Step 01
Map the obligations
We review where you sell and what you already hold: registrations to keep, registrations to add, and any filing history to take over from current advisors.
Step 02
Register
Applications prepared and filed in each new jurisdiction, with local representation arranged where required. Status per jurisdiction visible throughout.
Step 03
Connect the data
Your ERP and billing systems connect once. The first returns are prepared from live transaction data, reviewed by you, filed and paid by us.
Step 04
Run the calendar
Every deadline in every jurisdiction runs on one calendar: returns filed on cadence, payments confirmed, amendments and notices handled as they come.
Held together by email,
or run as a system.
The work doesn't get less repetitive as you grow; it gets more. The question is whether it runs on a system or on your team's evenings.
Advisors and spreadsheets
Operations held together by email.
- Each registration a bespoke project
- Data exported and re-keyed every period
- Deadlines tracked per advisor, per country
- Cross-border payments handled by your team
- No single view of what's filed and paid
- Errors found by the authority, not by you
Commenda registration & filing
One operating system for every filing.
- Registration handled in every jurisdiction
- Returns built from live transaction data
- One calendar across VAT, GST, and sales tax
- Remittance handled and confirmed
- Filing status visible per jurisdiction
- Amendments and notices handled by us
Where it fits
Filing starts where
monitoring says you owe.
Registration and filing is the engine room. Exposure tracking decides when a new jurisdiction enters the calendar, and the VAT, GST, and US sales tax services define what compliance looks like in each regime. It's all one platform and one dataset.
Common questions
Commenda covers indirect tax across 70+ countries: VAT registration across all EU member states and the UK, sales tax permits in all 50 US states, and GST registration in Australia, Singapore, Canada, New Zealand, and more. Most markets are handled directly; where local credentials are required, we work through vetted local partners.
It depends on the jurisdiction and how quickly the authority processes applications, but the parts we control move in days, not weeks. We prepare the application, chase the authority, and keep you posted on status per jurisdiction, so a pending registration is never a mystery.
Transaction data flows in directly from your ERP and billing systems: NetSuite, Xero, QuickBooks, and Sage Intacct on the ERP side, Stripe, Chargebee, Recurly, and Zuora on billing. No CSV uploads or manual extraction. Each return is prepared per that jurisdiction's rules, you review and approve it, and we file.
Remittance is part of the service. Every return comes with the amount due, you approve it, and payment is handled and tracked per jurisdiction, including local currency handling. You get a confirmation for every filing period instead of wiring money abroad and hoping.
We fix it. Where errors are identified, amended returns are prepared and filed in the affected jurisdiction, and any resulting authority correspondence is handled by us. Because returns are built from transaction-level data rather than spreadsheets, corrections are traceable to the source instead of being archaeology.
Yes, and that's the most common starting point. We take over existing registrations, collect the filing history from your current advisors, and consolidate everything onto one platform and one calendar. From then on, one team handles every registration, return, and payment.
Put every filing
on one calendar.
Book a 30-minute call. Tell us where you're registered and where you sell, and we'll show you what your filing calendar looks like when one team runs all of it.
