TaxCloud vs TaxValet: 2024 Comparison

What’s better for your business – a ‘fractional sales tax department’ like TaxValet offers – or comprehensive sales tax software AND hands-on sales tax filing and remittance services?

TaxValet claims to offer companies everything they need to stay on top of their ecommerce sales but fails to offer key services like sales tax exemption help, sales tax remittance support, real-time APIs, and more.

Learn why switching to TaxCloud from TaxValet will get more features, better support, and industry-leading pricing.

TaxValet

TaxCloud

Starter (or Premium)

Cost (monthly)

$1k - $3k per month

$19-$79 monthly ($16.58-$66.58 with annual discounts)

Orders included

Unlimited

Starter up to 1,200 (or Premium up to 2,400)

Ecommerce platform integrations (Shopify, BigCommerce, Odoo, etc.)

Payment processors integrations (PayPal, Stripe, etc.)

Subscription management integrations (Recurly, etc.)

ERPs integrations (QuickBooks, Oracle Netsuite, etc.)

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Feature Comparison

TaxValet

TaxCloud

Starter (or Premium)

Product tax code catalog

Exemption certificates

Address verification API

Sales tax calculation API

Economic nexus checker

Economic nexus notifications

Single state tax filing

$75/filing

Starting at $39/mo

Nationwide tax filing

$3,750/monthly

Starting at $599/mo

Sales tax remittance

Nationwide audit support

Streamlined Sales Tax (SST) discounts

Transaction-level reports

Jurisdiction-level reports

CSV import

Email support

Phone support

Chat support

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Why TaxCloud?

Accurate sales tax calculation and collection

Stop obsessing over tax laws and focus on your business. With a Government Affairs team who carefully monitors tax law in all 13,000+ US tax jurisdictions, TaxCloud helps you charge and collect sales tax correctly each time.

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Automatic sales tax filing and compliance

Non-compliance is expensive. TaxCloud simplifies sales tax filing by ensuring your taxes are filed accurately 100% of the time. We keep you informed about filing deadlines and can even look after the filing itself. Save time and money by filing with TaxCloud!

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Simplify your sales tax management

Our customers love how much time they save on sales tax with TaxCloud. With TaxCloud, you get:

Real-time calculation of sales and use tax in 13,000+ U.S. tax jurisdictions
Automatic alerts when nexus is triggered
Notifications of tax exemptions and sales tax holidays
Real-time sales tax data with our API
Assistance with audits

What you get with TaxCloud

Real-time sales tax integrations

Have a favorite e-commerce, ERP, CRM, or accounting system? No problem. TaxCloud has a wide range of real-time integrations, including Shopify, Odoo, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and Magento (formerly Adobe Commerce). Developed internally or with official partners, our real-time integrations make your sales tax compliance seamless.

Chat and phone support on all tiers

TaxCloud’s expert customer support team – humans, not bots – is always available and eager to help explain everything from how to onboard with TaxCloud to the intricacies of sales and use tax. With TaxCloud’s customer support, you’re assigned a dedicated customer success manager – which makes TaxCloud an excellent TaxValet alternative.

Industry-leading value and price

With TaxCloud you also get filing and audit support similar to TaxValet but with the added bonus of comprehensive sales tax compliance software. TaxCloud offers features like an API for address verification and real-time tax calculations, tax exemption certificates, automatic remittance, and more – for less than most businesses would pay for TaxValet whose $75+ per state filing fee works out to over $3,375 a month if you need to file in states that charge sales tax.

SST Certified Service Provider

TaxCloud is a Certified Service Provider (CSP). At no additional cost, our Streamlined Sales Tax (SST) program helps you register, calculate, and file sales tax in SST member states.

Frequently asked questions

TaxValet is a sales tax services provider that markets itself as a ‘fractional sales tax department.’ The company provides hands-on sales tax filing support, nexus notification, and audit protection. TaxValet sees itself as an alternative to sales tax software solutions.

TaxValet charges exclusively for tax filing on a per basis and claims that their customers’ average per-state filing cost is $75. Unlike other sales tax compliance offerings, TaxValet doesn’t charge for things like sales tax calculation or economic nexus monitoring and notification – but the company offers very limited services and features outside of tax filing and has no API for real-time calculations or custom integrations.

While TaxValet claims to save companies a significant amount of money, its offerings are much more expensive than other sales tax calculation and filing services.

For example, here are some comparative numbers on filing costs:

TaxValet:

1 state: $75
5 states: $375
10 states: $750
15 states: $1,125
20 states: $1,500
45 states: $3,375

TaxCloud:

1 return: $39/mo
3 returns: $109/mo
5 returns: $169/mo
10 returns: $319/mo
15 returns: $439/mo
Nationwide: $599/mo

TaxValet does not provide an API for sales tax calculation or for its integrations. Instead, they routinely upload sales tax rate data to your sales platforms and marketplaces and download transaction information.

In contrast, TaxCloud’s Premium pricing plan provides an API connection for real-time address verification, sales tax calculation, and seamless syncing of sales tax information across integrations and platforms.

When it comes to sales tax calculation, TaxCloud’s API makes it more accurate than TaxValet due to its ability to perform real-time address verification on orders and calculate sales tax and economic nexus thresholds in real time. Both companies provide hands-on sales tax filing and audit support to provide businesses with peace of mind.