Beretta Chooses SpeedTax for eCommerce Sales and Use Tax Needs
In Business since 15th Century, Beretta Taps SpeedTax for 21st Century Web Store Sales Tax Management
Laguna Hills, CA – August 3, 2010 – SpeedTax, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), fully-automated sales tax solutions, today announced that Beretta, the world’s oldest family-owned industrial dynasty and a premier provider of quality firearms to sportsmen, police departments and armed forces of governments throughout the world, has selected and implemented SpeedTax to handle the sales and use tax compliance and management needs for its ecommerce website, www.berettausa.com. The Beretta USA website is Beretta’s online web store presence in the U.S., selling men’s and women’s apparel, hunting gear, and firearms accessories.
Beretta is now utilizing SpeedTax’s online sales tax service, which provides real-time, automated sales tax calculations based on a delivery address, jurisdiction and tax classification category. In addition, SpeedTax validates and standardizes customer addresses via jurisdiction mapping to the rooftop level, providing the most precise, detailed address information available. Based on an address and tax classification, the SpeedTax service provides tracking of tax holidays, ship-from and ship-to address, tax category, combined sales tax rate, and jurisdictions and individual jurisdiction sales tax rate.
“We evaluated a number of leading sales and use tax providers, and selected SpeedTax based on ease-of-use, superior technology, and customer service,” said Ugo Muffolini, Media Operations Manager at Beretta USA. “Our confidence in their sales tax calculation service is evident in our displaying the SpeedTax logo on our www.berettausa.com site at the point of checkout, and we share the core business goal of providing reliable, accurate products to our valued customers.”
“We’re very pleased to be serving Beretta’s sales and use tax needs, and to be doing business with such a highly-respected and internationally recognized brand,” said David Lahey, EVP at SpeedTax. “Online merchants like Beretta are becoming much more aware of compliance liability as sales tax rates and rules changes occur on an almost daily basis at the state and local level. We’re looking forward to serving Beretta’s sales tax compliance and management needs for many years to come.”
The SpeedTax solution now deployed for Beretta has been tested and approved by the Streamlined Sales Tax (SST) Governing Board, earning the Certified Solution Provider and Certified Automated Solution designations, and providing the highest possible level of protection in the event of a sales tax audit.
About SpeedTax
SpeedTax is an easy-to-use, affordable and technologically advanced Software-as-a-Service sales tax solution. SpeedTax performs real-time, automated sales tax calculations, integrates seamlessly with its customers' financial or e-commerce systems, and provides automatic returns preparation and filing, while enabling reporting, treasury management and audit defense with sophisticated, web-based compliance management and reporting tools. SpeedTax helps businesses of all sizes to accurately and affordably outsource the most tedious, repetitious and time-consuming aspects of sales tax compliance – researching, calculating, posting, reporting and remitting sales taxes – while simultaneously acquiring the ability to better manage their business via online, real-time access to sales tax data. For more information, visit www.speedtax.com, or contact us at 888.349.2441.
About Beretta
Beretta, established in 1526, is the oldest industrial dynasty in the world tracing its roots through 16 generations of continuous family ownership. Firearms bearing the Beretta name have been sold for almost 500 years. Beretta USA Corp. was founded in 1977 and supplies the standard sidearm to the U.S. Armed Forces. Today, Beretta manufactures, distributes and markets a complete line of firearms, accessories and apparel. Beretta also owns and operates six retail Beretta Gallery stores worldwide. For additional information, visit www.berettausa.com.
Media Contact:
Brian Austin
Director of Public Relations
949.215.1177 (Office)
707.799.9838 (Mobile)
brianaustin@speedtax.com
