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Sales tax software for Deltek Vision

For an architecture, engineering, or consulting firm the hard question is whether the service is taxable at all, and that changes by state. Vision's tax codes are rates you enter, grouped by the client's country rather than by state. Commenda resolves taxability per state, tracks where your teams work, and files.

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Resolve services taxability per state

Texas defines taxable services as 16 named categories and exempts 20% of the charge for data processing and information services. Other states draw the line elsewhere. Commenda maintains that matrix and maps each of your service codes into it.

Source multi-state project work correctly

A study performed in one state for a client in another can be sourced either way, and staff on a client site can create physical presence on their own. Commenda resolves both from your Vision data plus a short questionnaire.

One exposure figure across your companies

Deltek documents that Vision's Tax Analysis report covers the active company only. Commenda consolidates every company into one exposure figure per state, with alerts at 80% of a registration threshold.

Coverage comparison

What Deltek Vision handles, and what it hands back

Vision is the older product and Deltek Vantagepoint is its successor, so the figures below come from Deltek's published Vision 7.6 online help, on tax code configuration, tax regions, tax auditing, the Tax Analysis report, and its Belgian and German tax file generation, checked on July 30, 2026.

Deltek VisionCommenda
Whether your service is taxable in a given stateNot handled. You decide, then create a tax code and enter the rateResolved per state from a maintained services matrix, per service code
Rates kept currentNot handled. Rates live in tax codes you maintain, and per company under MulticompanyMaintained across 14,000+ US jurisdictions and 70+ countries
Work performed in one state for a client in anotherNot handled. Its tax codes are filtered by the client's tax country, not by stateSourced per transaction, with performance and client location both carried
Registrations for collecting taxNot handled. Nothing in its tax setup registers you anywherePermits in all 50 states, EU VAT with OSS and IOSS, and GST across APAC and Canada
Filing your US returnsNot handled. Two reports, and only once Tax Auditing is switched onFiled in all 50 states, amendments included
Filing outside the United StatesPartly. It builds Belgian and German VAT files that you send yourselfFiled across 70+ countries from one platform
One tax figure across your companiesNot handled. Deltek states its tax report covers the active company onlyConsolidated per state across every entity, on one dashboard

Calculate taxes globally on Vision using Commenda

Every service code you bill is mapped to a product tax code that resolves per state automatically, taxable in one and exempt in another. Design fees, reimbursable expenses, and pass-through consultant costs can land differently in the same state, and a blended line hides that. Nobody on your team maintains a 50-state services matrix.

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Track your global exposure from Vision

Vision groups tax codes by the client's country. Exposure is a state question, and for a services firm the answer sits in two places at once. Commenda measures your Vision transactions against economic thresholds in all 50 states, and a short questionnaire covers site offices and staff working on client premises, because a timesheet in another state never reaches an invoice.

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Automatically remit transactions around the world

Returns are built straight from your Vision transactions, so nothing gets exported and re-keyed after the tax report has been run for each company in turn. Filings go out across all 50 states on each state's required frequency, plus EU VAT with OSS and GST in APAC and Canada. The liability and the filing confirmation post back to your ledger.

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Manage your customers and exemptions in one place

Professional services firms bill public agencies, universities, and nonprofits, and each one needs a valid document before you stop charging tax. Clients upload through a portal that can carry your branding, each certificate is validated on upload and stored against the client record, and it applies automatically in the states where it holds. Expiries are tracked and chased.

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Consolidation

Why services taxability decides your Deltek Vision tax position

A services firm's tax position turns on two things Vision does not model: whether the service is taxable in that state, and where the work was actually done. Vision records the invoice and the tax code you chose. Commenda answers the question behind it.

  • Services taxability is not one rule, it is fifty

    Texas defines taxable services as 16 broad categories named in its Tax Code, and then carves them up further: 20% of the charge for data processing services is exempt, and the same 20% applies to information services. Other states tax services broadly, and a few tax almost none. A firm billing the same deliverable into six states can owe tax in two of them. Each service code you bill is mapped to a tax code that resolves per state, so the matrix is maintained rather than remembered.

  • Vision groups tax by country, and your exposure is by state

    Deltek documents that a country can have only one tax region, and that the tax codes offered on an invoice are filtered by the tax country on the client address. That is a sensible VAT design and it does not describe a US sales tax obligation, which turns on states, counties, and districts. Commenda reads the same transactions and resolves them against jurisdictions, so the answer does not depend on how the client address was coded.

  • Staff on a client site can create the obligation before the revenue does

    Physical nexus does not wait for a threshold. People, property, or inventory in a state can create a duty to register on their own, and for an architecture, engineering, or consulting firm that means a project team resident on a customer's premises for months. None of that appears on an invoice. A short questionnaire covers it alongside the transaction data, and our nexus thresholds guide sets out each state's rule.

  • One ledger, whether you stay on Vision or move to Vantagepoint

    Deltek's Vision product page now redirects to Vantagepoint, and its published Vision help library stops at 7.6, so most firms on Vision have a migration ahead of them. Commenda sits outside your ERP, so your registrations, exemption certificates, and exposure history do not move with it. Every revenue source connects to one ledger across 100+ supported integrations, with each transaction carrying its origin.

What it takes

What global indirect tax takes in Deltek Vision

Deltek publishes no list pricing for Vision, so there are no dollar figures here. What Deltek does publish is the Vision 7.6 online help, and the rows below are what each capability takes according to it.

What you needWhat Deltek Vision requiresSource
Any tax calculation at allThe Billing application installed. Deltek states the Tax Code Setup feature is available only if Billing is installedTax Code Configuration
A rateA tax code you create, holding how the tax is calculated, whether it is an input tax or an output tax, override limits for transaction entry, and a non-recoverable percentageTax Code Configuration
Tax codes across a group of companiesA separate set per company. Deltek states that if you use the Multicompany feature, you must set up tax codes for each companyTax Code Configuration
The right tax codes offered for a given clientA tax region per country, assigned on Company Settings, then a tax country on each client address. Deltek states a country can have only one tax regionTax Regions
Reporting on the tax you enteredThe Tax Auditing feature switched on, which adds the Sales List and Tax Analysis reports. Without it you can enter tax on invoices and purchase orders but not report on themTax Auditing
One tax figure across those companiesNot available in one report. Deltek states that with Multicompany, only information for the active company is included in the Tax Analysis reportTax Analysis Report
A statutory VAT fileTax File Generation, with four named formats: Intra EU Community XML, Belgium Client Listing XML, Belgium VAT Declaration XML, and the German ELSTER monthly returnBelgium tax file
That file reaching the tax authorityYou. Deltek's final instruction on both the Belgian and the German procedure is to send the tax file to the tax authorities as you normally doGerman ELSTER file
The product's futureVantagepoint. Deltek's Vision product URL now redirects to the Vantagepoint page, and its published Vision help library lists releases up to 7.6Deltek Vantagepoint

Figures verified on July 30, 2026.

From the field

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“The platform works exactly the way I need it to. I have one team member who manages all of our exemption certificates, and that functionality has been particularly efficient for us. It allows him to handle everything seamlessly, making the handoff significantly easier.”
Matt Preston, CPA

VP of Finance, TRX

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Frequently asked questions

What professional services firms running Vision ask before they move their indirect tax to Commenda. For the wider picture, start with the indirect tax overview, or look up a rate with the sales tax calculator.
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It depends on the state, and the variation is wider for services than for goods. Texas defines taxable services as 16 broad categories named in its Tax Code, and even inside those it carves out detail: 20% of the charge for data processing services is exempt, and the same 20% applies to information services. Other states tax services broadly, and a few tax almost none. Taxability can also turn on the delivery model and on the customer type within a single state. We maintain that state-by-state matrix and map each service code you bill into it, so the correct treatment resolves per invoice line rather than per firm.

Both can matter, which is why this gets decided per transaction rather than per client. Some states source a service to where it is performed and others to where the benefit is received, so the same engagement can point at two different answers depending on the pair of states involved. Vision does not help here: Deltek documents that the tax codes offered on an invoice are filtered by the tax country on the client's address, and states that a country can have only one tax region. Commenda carries both the performance location and the client location on each transaction and applies the sourcing rule for the states in play.

Often, yes, and it does not wait for a revenue threshold. Physical nexus comes from people, property, or inventory in a state, and a design or engineering team resident on a client's premises for months is exactly that. Economic nexus is the other half: most states use 100,000 dollars in sales or 200 transactions in a rolling twelve months, and California and New York use 500,000 dollars. Neither shows up in Vision, because a timesheet in another state never reaches an invoice. A short questionnaire covers physical presence alongside the transaction data.

Not in the US, and not anywhere without you sending the file. In the US, Vision gives you two reports, the Sales List and the Tax Analysis report, and only once the Tax Auditing feature is switched on. Deltek states that without Tax Auditing you can enter tax on billing invoices and purchase orders but cannot report on them. Outside the US it goes further and generates real statutory output: Intra EU Community XML, a Belgium Client Listing, a Belgian VAT Declaration, and the German ELSTER monthly return. Deltek's own final step in both procedures is to send the tax file to the tax authorities as you normally do. Commenda files across all 50 states and 70+ countries, with amendments where a period needs correcting.

By consolidating transactions rather than reports. Deltek documents that when you use Multicompany, only information for the active company is included in the Tax Analysis report, and that billing transactions belonging to a lower level of a project's work breakdown structure will not appear at all unless you run the report for the company that owns that level. Deltek also states you must set up tax codes separately for each company. Commenda pulls every company into one ledger tagged by the state each transaction belongs to, so you get one exposure figure per state and can still switch between entities on the same dashboard.

It can, if the components have different taxability in that state. A single blended line that combines a taxable and a non-taxable element usually produces the wrong answer, and splitting them into distinct product codes going forward usually produces the right one. You do not need to re-issue historical invoices to fix the setup. We map your billing terms and service codes during onboarding, including reimbursable expenses and pass-through consultant costs, and flag where a prior default code has been inflating or understating what you collected.

No. Commenda reads your transactions, so it does not depend on which Deltek release you are on. It is worth knowing where Vision stands: Deltek's own Vision product URL now redirects to the Vantagepoint page, and its published Vision help library lists releases up to 7.6. We have not found a Deltek end-of-support date, so we will not quote one. What matters practically is that your registrations, your exemption certificates, and your exposure history sit outside the ERP, so a migration to Vantagepoint does not restart your compliance record.

Yes. US sales tax and EU VAT are handled from the same platform, with each tax type routed to its own account so your books stay clean, and Commenda covers 70+ countries in total including EU VAT with OSS and IOSS. Vision covers the European side selectively, with named formats for Belgian and German filings and nothing comparable elsewhere. Where a group company runs on something other than Vision, that system connects separately across 100+ supported integrations, and a mapped monthly CSV covers anything with no connector.

Custom integration support for your business

Every Vision instance is configured differently, from billing terms to how projects are split across companies. We map how yours works, including which service codes are taxable in which states, and build the integration to match. No engineering work on your side.

Indirect Tax

Monitor nexus exposure, register, file, and remit sales tax and VAT in one platform. Commenda keeps you compliant across 100+ jurisdictions.

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