Hospitality Firms Use Downtime to Implement New Technologies

Avalara for Hospitality automates the time-consuming aspects of tax compliance including calculation and filing of sales and lodging tax returns for hotel chains, travel agencies, property management and short-term rental operators. Avalara Inc. is a cloud-based tax compliance provider.

“(Our recent) announcement coincides with businesses in this sector emerging from shutdowns and curtailed operations, and developing a path forward to growth and profitability,” said Sanjay Parthasarathy, chief product officer at Avalara. “Many hospitality businesses have used the enforced downtime to implement new technologies that modernize operations, streamline processes via automation, gain efficiencies, and reduce the risk of audits and fines for noncompliance of tax and other obligations.”

Avalara will continue to add new capabilities and functionality including additional hospitality tax types to upcoming releases of the Avalara for Hospitality solution.

“As hotels and resorts begin a return to full capacity, streamlining a host of back-office operations including the calculation, filing and remittance of lodging, sales and other taxes is essential to remaining competitive, mitigating current and future risk, and maintaining a laser focus on growth,” said Oliver Hoare, general manager for lodging at Avalara.