US sales tax and VAT software for MYOB Business

Yes, and it is a real lodgement rather than a printed form. MYOB says you can lodge your activity statement online and get confirmation from the ATO within seconds, with a declaration step and a status you can track from Not started through to Lodged or Rejected. Revise handles an amendment within the adjustment period the ATO allows. Two things are yours to do. Only the GST and PAYG Withholding fields are filled automatically from your MYOB data, so other fields need the amounts to hand. And you link each of your tax codes to the right BAS field once, during a one-time setup that MYOB puts at 10 to 15 minutes and that requires registering a software ID in the ATO's Access Manager.

Yes. MYOB states you can use the GST and Provisional Tax function to fill out and file your GST return using Inland Revenue's eGST service, with the return pre-filled from your MYOB data and a submission status shown after you file. On AccountRight the answer depends on your company file: eGST needs an online file, and the manual path only prints a GST return you then complete and lodge yourself, electronically or by post. MYOB also notes the six-month GST taxable period is not yet available on that desktop flow. If a tax agent files for you, you delegate the GST return service to them in myIR rather than in MYOB.

For Australia alone, you would not. The ATO puts GST at a broad-based 10% on most goods and services, there is one authority, and MYOB lodges the form. That is a genuinely simpler system than US sales tax, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The problem starts at the border. Every tax code in MYOB Business belongs to an Australian or New Zealand tax type, and MYOB states a tax code's type cannot be changed. There is no US, UK, or EU tax type to select. Sales Tax in the Australian code list means Wine Equalisation Tax. So the second country is a different system, not a different setting.

Not that MYOB documents. Its GST settings page asks whether the business is registered for GST and, on the question of turnover, gets no further than noting you might be registering because turnover increased. The ATO measures current GST turnover across the current month and the previous 11, gives you 21 days to register once you are required to, and advises checking each month. New Zealand uses NZ$60,000 over 12 months. Commenda measures your MYOB transactions against both, and against the registration threshold in all 50 US states, every EU member state, and 70+ countries, with an alert at 80% of a threshold rather than a discovery after you cross it.

Not to MYOB Business. Avalara is listed on MYOB's own marketplace, and its compatibility field reads Works with MYOB Acumatica. MYOB Acumatica is the separate ERP for mid-size and larger businesses, not MYOB Business or AccountRight. Across the AU and NZ app catalogues, which MYOB puts at more than 350 apps, Avalara is the only indirect tax listing. Commenda connects to MYOB Business directly and handles registration, calculation, filing, remittance, and certificates across all 50 states and 70+ countries, with no engineering work on your side.

As a tax code, which is all Australian GST needs. Exemption in MYOB is a code on the line, inherited from the customer, supplier, item, or category, with FRE for GST-free sales, EXP for exports, and ITS and INP for input-taxed sales and purchases. There is no certificate object, because Australia has no resale certificate regime to store one for. US sales tax does. A B2B sale is exempt only if you hold a valid certificate, and liability for an invalid one falls back on the seller. Commenda collects them through a self-service portal, validates each at upload on signature, dates, ID format, and state-specific fields, accepts multi-state SST and MTC forms, applies them automatically where valid, and chases expiries.

Under marketplace facilitator rules the marketplace generally collects and remits tax on the sales it facilitates, and your direct sales stay yours. You still need the facilitated sales accounted for correctly. Commenda separates facilitated from direct sales and tracks the tax the platform already collected, so nothing gets filed twice and nothing gets missed. Where a platform is not collecting, which is common with non-US platforms, the liability is yours. We review the platform's settlement reporting to confirm its collection status rather than assume it.