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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CCH® SureTax®

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ACCH SureTax is designed by tax experts to help businesses comply even with the most complex sale and use tax requirements. Always up-to-date on 100,000+ annual tax legislation changes, this cloud-based sales tax automation platform aims to ensure customers accurately calculate, collect, and remit taxes to the correct authorities every time.N/A

    Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThe Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud includes tax automation capabilities, including sales and use tax, 1099 reporting, ACA reporting, VAT solutions, and FATCA compliance.N/A
    Pricing
    CCH® SureTax®Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CCH® SureTax®Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CCH® SureTax®Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Wolters Kluwer
    Chose CCH® SureTax®
    Avalara has the best API but doesn't handle volume well
    ONESOURCE is a custom solution, tailored to fit to each customer needs by team of integrators works great for large businesses
    Sov0s if you don't have anything nice to say say nothing at all
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    Sovos
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    85%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    46 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    55 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    84%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    37 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    45 Answers
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    Features
    CCH® SureTax®Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud
    Type of tax
    Comparison of Type of tax features of CCH® SureTax® and Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud
    Feature
    CCH® SureTax®
    7.4
    62 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Sales and Use Taxes7.962 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Cross-border Taxes9.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    VAT / GST Taxes5.14 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Energy and Fuel Taxes7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tax Reporting & Compliance
    Comparison of Tax Reporting & Compliance features of CCH® SureTax® and Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud
    Feature
    CCH® SureTax®
    6.8
    61 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Geolocation for Tax Assessment8.945 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    3rd-Party Software Integrations6.243 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Tax Data Reporting6.755 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Compliance Administration Management6.641 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Tax Exemption Processing7.643 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Tax Document Management6.633 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Complex Tax Scenario Management5.242 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    CCH® SureTax®Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (63 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CCH® SureTax®Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Wolters Kluwer
    I would put CCH® SureTax® at the top of the scale for any Telecom business or anyone with a known tax scenario that will be similarly sketchy. This software, while not always user friendly, can do amazing things to help you navigate the tax issues facing us all today. This would not be appropriate for a company just needing help gathering their sales tax information. There are plenty of other, friendlier solutions, possibly what they are already using for their accounting that will do it cleaner, easier and cheaper. You just have to ask an expert in that software.
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    Sovos
    In our case, sales and use tax are a must-have. With the recent change and continuous change in tax law, companies find it harder to comply with tax without a system. In our case, managing thousands of customers with thousands of tax codes - city tax, state tax, zone tax - proves to be a challenge. We need a system to minimize any exposure with federal and state tax law, and certainly protect us from an audit.
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    Pros
    Wolters Kluwer
    • Maintains Nexus nationwide.
    • Implements all of the various sales tax rates nationwide automatically.
    • Clean website that is very user friendly.
    • Support is very quick to respond and always fixes any issues you may be having.
    • We have had this since 2013, and not one time has a sales tax rate been wrong. We used to have Avalara, where we had 12 different overrides in their system just to calculate the correct tax. It is nice not having to maintain those.
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    Sovos
    • They are good at updating the tax tables with all the new sales tax law changes
    • They are good at charging the correct sales tax amount as long as the software is set up or configured correctly
    • They are good at following up at sales tax correspondences
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    Cons
    Wolters Kluwer
    • We have participated in some prepayment testing so we know that functionality is being built out and what we saw looked really good. We're anxious to have that rolled out.
    • We'd like a cleaner way to export documentation of what was paid and EXACTLY what was paid. Currently web fees and some small balances are not shown by the website and that means making journal entries is a more manual process than hoped.
    • We've been working with folks at SureTax about discrepancies between CCH RADAR rates vs the rates which get used in SureTax. We have learned the 2 systems do not utilize the same data and we often find RADAR is more accurate.
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    Sovos
    • The admin portal needs work - I cannot simply add and remove users, and have to create a case support. I think this is a low-hanging fruit Sovos is working on to resolve.
    • The UI could be improved.
    • The sync does not always happen instantly and sometime can take up to 24 hours.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Wolters Kluwer
    We switched our tax service from Avalara to SureTax years ago. Prior to this, we manually prepared the data and ran a report uploading and then got the tax result every time. With Suretax providing enough and flexable APIs, we redesigned and implemented our new application to communicate with SureTax seamlessly and automatically. This greatly reduced our workload, improves the system efficiency, and increased the data accuracy.
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    Sovos
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Wolters Kluwer
    SureTax is very reliable in with the integration with Microsoft Dynamics GP. It provides accurate tax calculations in accordance with tax updates. SureTax also has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to navigate. It is easy to add customers and also run reports on the website. The overall manageability of it is great!
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    Sovos
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Wolters Kluwer
    It has taken much longer than we would like to get certain issues - and problems - resolved. And the initial product support as we designed the implementation left much to be desired
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    Sovos
    For the most part, the support team is responsive. However, with the recent switch from a legacy server to S1 server, Sovos created a problem for us. We simply can't upload a tax certificate. I logged a case with support, and they could not help, so they escalate to their senior technician. All in all, it has been more than 7 days, and they could not resolve a "simple" issue.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Wolters Kluwer
    100% better. Avalara is a self-starter kit where businesses are forced to create and develop their own bundles and product types. The support that you get from the AvaTax is not as user-friendly. SureTax is full of seasoned experts and full of industry leaders. Law firms that I have worked with in the past, as well as other CPAs, only recommend SureTax.
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    Sovos
    I have used sales tax tables in the past and they are a lot more accurate as long as the configuration is done correctly up front. I have also used Avalara. Avalara has a more consumer friendly interface and better reporting function
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    Return on Investment
    Wolters Kluwer
    • Previously we paid $5,200 per year for a standalone telecom tax calculation program. The overall cost of the combined solution that we have is just about the same as the cost of everything that we have before adding that cost in.
    • Once you add in the additional benefit of the API integration and the automation that's freed up employee time, I think it's fairly safe to say that as we've grown, the combined efficiencies have allowed us to operate with two fewer employees than we would have otherwise needed.
    • Over past 4 years we have yet to be notified of any errors in our submitted regulatory taxes.
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    Sovos
    • It saved us a lot of time and money but eliminating the manpower needed to process manually ourselves
    • It helped reduce the time needed to follow up and resolve sales tax correspondences
    • It helped reduce costs and time to register in new taxing jurisdications
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    CCH® SureTax® Screenshots

    Screenshot of Transaction level viewScreenshot of Nexus dashboardScreenshot of Exempt Certificate ManagerScreenshot of Reporting viewScreenshot of Returns dashboardScreenshot of A return screenshot