Sales tax and VAT software for Acumatica

In the UK, yes. Acumatica's Taxes guide has a chapter on Making Tax Digital, and its Submit VAT Return form sends the released return to HMRC once you confirm it. In the United States the answer is no. Acumatica prepares and releases a tax report you then file, and lists filing of tax reports on behalf of each branch to the appropriate tax authorities as a benefit of its Avalara AvaTax integration rather than a feature of the ERP. Commenda files in all 50 states on each state's required frequency, plus VAT and GST across 70+ countries, and files amended returns where a period needs correcting.

By intersection. The tax that applies is the one belonging to both the tax zone attached to the customer or vendor location and the tax category on the item, and Acumatica calculates the amount using that tax's own calculation rule. It offers five rules, from exclusive document-level and line-level through to compound second-level taxes, and the same document can produce a different total depending on which one you picked. Commenda calculates from the ship-to address and the product tax code instead, so a taxable line and an exempt line on one invoice are each handled correctly without a zone or category to maintain.

No. Nexus does not appear in Acumatica's Taxes guide or its Administration guide at all. It appears once in the Avalara chapter, where the setup instruction is to select, inside Avalara, the states where each company already has a tax nexus. Registration is the input, not the output. Commenda measures the same Acumatica invoices against economic and physical thresholds in all 50 states, every EU member state, and 70+ countries, and notifies you at 80% of a registration threshold. Most states use 100,000 dollars in sales or 200 transactions in twelve months, and California and New York use 500,000 dollars. A short questionnaire covers physical presence, because a warehouse or a remote employee never shows up on an invoice.

It can request and retrieve them, through Avalara. Acumatica documents an integration with Avalara's exemption certificate management service where you add customers to the Avalara ECM account, request certificates from the eligible ones, and then retrieve, view, update, and print them inside Acumatica. That needs an Avalara subscription. Without it, a tax-exempt customer is a tax zone holding zero-rated taxes, and the customer record itself carries a tax zone, a tax registration ID, and an exemption number and type rather than a certificate. Commenda collects certificates through a self-service portal that can carry your branding, validates each one at upload, applies it automatically in the states where it is valid, and chases expiries. SST and MTC multi-state forms are accepted alongside single-state ones, which matters because liability for an invalid certificate falls back on the seller.

The ledger consolidates, and the filing does not. Acumatica runs an unlimited number of related companies in a single instance with shared charts of accounts, real-time exchange rates, and consolidated statements, and it says the system supports use tax, VAT, and financial reporting requirements for select geographies. On the tax side you prepare a report for each company, or for each branch where you file taxes by branch, and then close the tax period for the company. For UK filing, one HMRC connection can be selected only once in the instance, on either the Companies or the Branches form. Commenda covers multiple entities on one dashboard with consolidated registrations, exposure, and filings, and new entities from an acquisition inherit the same workflow.

Acumatica calculates it on the purchase. It applies use tax automatically on vendor documents when the vendor did not charge sales tax, using the tax whose category matches the item and whose zone matches the vendor. What that does not answer is where the tax is owed once a distributed team consumes the thing you bought. Commenda pulls employee distribution by state from your payroll system and matches it against procurement bills, so use tax is allocated on real data rather than a percentage someone types in per state. Where an assessment has already landed, audit representation covers the open matter.

Yes, and it is common. We pull your transaction history by state and compare it against where you are registered and filing, which produces a required-versus-actual map. States with little or no taxable activity become deregistration candidates. Deregistration gets sequenced rather than rushed, because trailing nexus, open liabilities, and pending returns need closing first, and cleanup never goes ahead of an unresolved state matter. Bear in mind that a registration you keep is a return you owe every period even when the tax due is nil.