Sales tax and VAT software for IFS Cloud

It carries the tax, and something else supplies the rate. IFS states that VAT and sales tax are not differentiated in IFS, that both are handled as tax codes, and that the user controls the basic data setup. For the United States its documentation is explicit about where the rate comes from: it covers login parameters for external tax systems like Vertex and Avalara, an external tax category to classify each sales part in their tax fetching logic for the US, and an external tax use code to classify customers. IFS then receives multiple tax percentages back for quotation, order, invoice and instant invoice lines. Commenda applies the rate itself, at the delivery address, down to district level.

One, and it is not a VAT return. IFS Cloud has a Transfer to Tax Authority command with transfer statuses, load file IDs and credentials held on the tax office record. The only tax template IFS documents as supporting that integration is the UK Construction Industry Scheme, and its own note says that until the integration with HMRC is completed the transfer status stays in Pending Response. Everything else goes out as generic tax output, a JSON object sent to an external service provider's endpoint, dropped on an FTP server, or downloaded. Commenda files across all 50 US states and 70+ countries, with amendments where a period needs correcting.

Twenty-two, and the United States is not among them. IFS Cloud's country solutions cover Australia, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, the UK and Vietnam. What each one contains varies a lot: Norway covers SAF-T and Norwegian VAT returns, Denmark covers SAF-T, and the UK covers the Construction Industry Scheme rather than VAT. Outside that list you build the report from the tax ledger yourself. Commenda covers 70+ countries including every EU member state, plus all 50 US states.

By what was supplied and where the work happened, which is the part an ERP tax code cannot decide for you. Many US states tax the part fitted during a service visit but treat repair or installation labour differently, and some tax both. A technician working in a state can also create physical presence there on its own, separately from any sales threshold. IFS holds tax liability as a code attached to a customer delivery address, so it applies whatever you configured. Commenda rates each line by what it was and where it went, and its exposure questionnaire covers field staff and parts locations.

No. Nexus monitoring is not a documented feature. IFS's model starts from tax liability codes you define per country and customer address, so it taxes where you declared and stays silent everywhere else. Anything sold into a state you never set up is taxed on whatever code defaulted and counted nowhere. Commenda measures your IFS transactions 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, before you cross.

Yes, in both directions, and stock is the trigger people miss. Holding your own inventory in a US state is physical presence in most of them, with no sales threshold required. In the EU, moving your own goods into another member state's warehouse can create a registration obligation there and an intra-community movement to report. IFS handles the accounting for those movements and holds a tax ID number per country on the company record. What it does not do is tell you that the warehouse itself created a filing obligation. Commenda's exposure check covers stock locations alongside transactions, then registers and files where you owe.

It handles the mechanics inside one company, and OSS is not documented. IFS supports intra-EU sales properly: you hold multiple tax ID numbers per company by country, set a tax liability per combination of supplying site country and customer address, and use tax classes to hold a different tax code per delivery country. Exempt intra-EU lines pick up a tax free tax code by delivery type, so goods, services and tripartite trade separate in reporting. One Stop Shop returns are not part of that documentation. Commenda registers for EU VAT, files under OSS for cross-border B2C, and covers IOSS for imported goods.

It stores an exemption, and IFS is unusually candid about why the field exists. A delivery address takes a Tax Exempt Info tab where you record certificate details, and IFS's documentation states this was added to accommodate the Italian customer who holds an exemption certificate allowing VAT-free purchases. A US resale or manufacturing exemption is a different object: a document your customer sends you, valid in some states and not others, with an expiry. Commenda collects them through a self-service portal that can carry your branding, validates each one at upload, applies it automatically where it is valid, and chases expiries.