Sales tax and VAT software for Sage Intacct

No. Sage Intacct submits tax returns through Sage Regulatory Reporting for six countries, and the United States is not one of them. What you get in the US is calculation and capture: either Advanced Tax, where you build and maintain the jurisdictions and rates yourself, or the Avalara AvaTax integration, where Sage says you can use the reporting in AvaTax to prepare tax returns for each jurisdiction. That reporting sits in an Avalara account you open separately. Commenda files across all 50 states on each state's required frequency, tracks remittance per jurisdiction, and files amended returns where a period needs correcting.

No. Sage's own sales tax overview names economic nexus in the customer's state as one of the two things that require you to collect, and then documents no way to monitor it. The nexus tracking and the alerts are described on the Avalara AvaTax listing on Sage's marketplace rather than in the Sage Intacct tax documentation. Commenda measures the same Sage Intacct 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. Exempt sales matter here too. In states that count them toward the threshold they can still create an obligation, and we surface that per state.

Sage answers this itself, and the answer turns on how many jurisdictions you collect in. Its documentation suggests Advanced Tax where you sell in a limited area, perhaps one or two states, and AvaTax where you sell in all 50 states along with many counties and cities. Sage puts the number of state, county, and city jurisdictions that charge US sales tax at roughly 8,000. Advanced Tax is included in your subscription and Avalara bills you separately, and Sage notes that using Advanced Tax precludes using Simple Tax. With Commenda the rate table is not yours to maintain either way, and the same data drives the filing.

The UK is covered, and it is one of nine. Sage Intacct has been through HMRC's recognition process for Making Tax Digital and submits the return electronically. Germany goes to ELSTER the same way, and South Africa can go electronically to SARS. Australia, Canada, and France give you a calculated PDF that you lodge yourself. New Zealand, Ireland, and Singapore are early adopter solutions where you record a manual submission and mark it filed. Everywhere else you build a custom tax solution with your own rates and do the same. Commenda covers VAT, GST, and sales tax across 70+ countries from one platform, including EU VAT with OSS and IOSS.

It holds a code. The certificate itself sits outside Sage Intacct. Customers are taxable by default in Sage Intacct. You enter an exemption use code on the Additional Information tab of a customer or contact record, and Sage Intacct passes that code to Avalara on the transaction. Sage's own documentation says Avalara provides the exempt certificate management, and that a customer marked taxable will still be exempted if you file a tax exemption for them on the Avalara dashboard. Storing a certificate is not the same as getting one. Commenda collects them through a self-service portal, validates each one at upload on signature, dates, ID format, and state-specific fields, applies it automatically where valid, and chases expiries. Multi-state SST and MTC forms are accepted alongside single-state ones. Liability for an invalid certificate falls back on the seller, which is why validation happens at upload.

In Sage Intacct you assign one tax solution per entity, so a UK entity on the pre-configured VAT solution and a US entity on Advanced Tax are two separate setups. Whether their returns group together depends on your registration numbers, because each return covers a single VAT registration number. Two other constraints are worth knowing: the books for the reporting period must be closed before you create a submission, and the Taxes application does not support cash basis tax reporting. With Commenda you switch between entities on one dashboard, with consolidated registrations, exposure, and filings. Entities added through an acquisition join the same workspace and inherit the same monitoring and filing workflow.

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 those 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.