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| title | Excise Overview |
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The Excise Tax API integrates with most major back-end financial systems, automating tax calculation for a broad range of fuel transactions, including invoices, purchase orders, sales orders, or movement accruals.
This service is the external programmatic interface into the that is the external programmatic interface into the Avalara Excise application. It provides for a platform-independent mechanism to obtain tax calculation information.
An error in tax determination can result in significant sales margin impact, hidden tax
liabilities, and the potential for fines and penalties from taxing jurisdictions. Fuel
suppliers, distributors, and energy traders will all benefit from increased tax
determination accuracy, financial control, and transparency. Energy traders can fully
understand tax implications prior to committing to a transaction, allowing for tax
optimization, risk mitigation, and decreased costs.
AvaTax Excise significantly reduces IT maintenance costs associated with ongoing
management of custom code and support of new tax regulations. Learn more
Learn how to consume the web service for integration into customer programs, and defines the object structure, and reference the detailed object structure.
To access the Avalara Excise service and obtain an API key, contact your Avalara account manager or email us.