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Guide: AvaTax Excise

Learn about AvaTax Excise, its functionality, and how to integrate it with your systems.

Before beginning an integration, ensure that you understand the AvaTax Excise engine and determine how you’ll use AvaTax Excise.

AvaTax Excise on its own is a middleware engine to AvaTax. With AvaTax Excise, you can provide transaction data to the engine, and AvaTax Excise will return the tax calculations. You can also void and adjust these transactions in AvaTax Excise, and AvaTax Excise saves that data. At this point, it’s up to you to determine what you will do with that data.

AvaTax Excise isn’t a reporting engine. To report fuel transactions, capture the transaction data in your source system. Then, send this data to the Avalara Managed Returns team. You can set up a feed to send the data. Alternatively, collaborate with Avalara to find the best way to share this information with the Avalara Managed Returns team.

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Contact your excise implementation consultant for the latest field specifications and information related to creating an Avalara Returns Excise (ARE) import file.

For tobacco, nicotine, or vape transactions; connect ATE to call out to AvaTax and pass your data through. When connecting to AvaTax, you can commit, adjust, and void transactions in AvaTax. You can also file returns using AvaTax.

Information about how to connect ATE to AvaTax is available in the upcoming Connecting to AvaTax topic.