Wow - a very cool announcement from my friends at The ASCII Group:
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ASCII Announces National Sales Tax Helpdesk
for Managed Service Providers
New Program Helps Members Understand
When to Charge Sales Tax
Bethesda,
Maryland – August 20, 2015 -- The ASCII Group, a membership-based community of independent MSPs, VARs
and solution providers, is pleased to announce a new service aimed at helping members
navigate the complexities surrounding sales tax and how it pertains to IT
services. Designed to assist VARs, MSPs
and other solution providers, the service will offer answers on when they
should be charging sales tax related to their service offerings in all 50
states.
The ASCII Group
identified a need within its community because of numerous sales tax questions
that were continually being raised on member discussion boards. With no simple answers being found, ASCII
formed a committee of members to organize and categorize a comprehensive list
of sales tax questions asked by fellow members that covered a broad range of
sales scenarios related to managed and cloud related services.
A first of its kind
in the industry, this support service will answer those sales tax questions for
ASCII members in every state by giving answers from a renowned authority on
corporate sales tax. This recognized
leader in the space has served many Fortune 100 companies and has answered
thousands of questions related to sales tax.
In addition, ASCII
will automatically get updates that it will immediately push out to the
membership whenever a state changes or re-interprets a sales tax law. This will ensure that members always have the
most up-to-date answers on sales tax issues for every state they are doing
business in.
“Interpretation of tax code is not easy. The complexities of what we offer today in IT
services have often outpaced how the code is written,” said Chip Evans, President, Computerware, Vienna, VA, ASCII
Group Member since 1988. “By having ASCII provide us with an ongoing
resource to help us understand and verify how sales tax is applied correctly is
huge; it allows us to continue to go beyond state lines and progress into more
cloud and hybrid offerings.”
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“As our members
continue to expand their services locally and nationally, having a resource to mitigate
their risk of improperly applying sales tax is simply one less thing our
community of IT providers have to worry about,” said Jerry Koutavas, President,
The ASCII Group.
For more information
on The ASCII Group, please call 800-394-2724.
About The ASCII Group, Inc:
The ASCII
Group is a vibrant reseller community of independent MSPs, VARs, and other
solution providers. Formed in 1984, ASCII has more than 70 programs that
provide turnkey cost-cutting strategies, innovative business building programs,
and extensive peer interaction. ASCII members enjoy benefits such as
marketing support; educational information; group purchasing power; increased
leverage in the marketplace; and multiple networking opportunities. These programs
enable ASCII members to increase revenue, lower operating costs, and grow
service opportunities. Learn more at www.ascii.com.
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Press Contact
Doug Young
The ASCII
Group
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