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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bloomberg Tax

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ABloomberg Tax is a tax management and automation software suite supporting corporate tax research, calculation, and compliance.N/A

    CCH® SureTax®

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ACCH SureTax is designed by tax experts to help businesses comply even with the most complex sale and use tax requirements. Always up-to-date on 100,000+ annual tax legislation changes, this cloud-based sales tax automation platform aims to ensure customers accurately calculate, collect, and remit taxes to the correct authorities every time.N/A
    Pricing
    Bloomberg TaxCCH® SureTax®
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Bloomberg TaxCCH® SureTax®
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Bloomberg TaxCCH® SureTax®
    Considered Both Products
    Bloomberg
    No answer on this topic
    Wolters Kluwer
    Chose CCH® SureTax®
    Avalara was not suitable for our ERP and was not recommended by our VAR.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    85%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    46 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    55 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    84%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    37 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    45 Answers
    Features
    Bloomberg TaxCCH® SureTax®
    Type of tax
    Comparison of Type of tax features of Bloomberg Tax and CCH® SureTax®
    Feature
    Bloomberg Tax
    9.3
    2 Ratings
    20% above category average
    CCH® SureTax®
    7.4
    62 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Sales and Use Taxes8.02 Ratings7.962 Ratings
    Cross-border Taxes10.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    VAT / GST Taxes10.01 Ratings5.14 Ratings
    Energy and Fuel Taxes00 Ratings7.66 Ratings
    Tax Reporting & Compliance
    Comparison of Tax Reporting & Compliance features of Bloomberg Tax and CCH® SureTax®
    Feature
    Bloomberg Tax
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    9% above category average
    CCH® SureTax®
    6.8
    61 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Geolocation for Tax Assessment9.02 Ratings8.945 Ratings
    3rd-Party Software Integrations8.01 Ratings6.243 Ratings
    Tax Data Reporting9.02 Ratings6.755 Ratings
    Compliance Administration Management9.02 Ratings6.641 Ratings
    Tax Document Management8.01 Ratings6.633 Ratings
    Complex Tax Scenario Management8.01 Ratings5.242 Ratings
    Tax Exemption Processing00 Ratings7.643 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Bloomberg TaxCCH® SureTax®
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.5
    (63 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.3
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bloomberg TaxCCH® SureTax®
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bloomberg
    The fixed asset software is very advanced for software in general, but it is limited to accounting (GAAP and Tax) fixed assets. Would love to see a more IT user friendly software allowing IT personnel to use a gun to scan the servers and computers, etc. This wouldn't necessarily be a fixed asset as many computer items are too small dollar wise, but it would be a useful feature for IT and accounting to track IT assets by locatoin, user, departmetn, etc. and would be company wide. Another software needed is for company contracts with an ability to send out emails for notifications that a given contract is coming due. Obviously, this would be for contracts and leases but is also useful for accounting and would involve the whole company as there are contracts for rentals, equipment, service maintenance agreements, capital leases, IT contracts, etc.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    I would put CCH® SureTax® at the top of the scale for any Telecom business or anyone with a known tax scenario that will be similarly sketchy. This software, while not always user friendly, can do amazing things to help you navigate the tax issues facing us all today. This would not be appropriate for a company just needing help gathering their sales tax information. There are plenty of other, friendlier solutions, possibly what they are already using for their accounting that will do it cleaner, easier and cheaper. You just have to ask an expert in that software.
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    Pros
    Bloomberg
    • Research
    • Chart Creations.
    • Help narrow down or identify the exact issue you have.
    • Customer Support through the help line.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    • Maintains Nexus nationwide.
    • Implements all of the various sales tax rates nationwide automatically.
    • Clean website that is very user friendly.
    • Support is very quick to respond and always fixes any issues you may be having.
    • We have had this since 2013, and not one time has a sales tax rate been wrong. We used to have Avalara, where we had 12 different overrides in their system just to calculate the correct tax. It is nice not having to maintain those.
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    Cons
    Bloomberg
    • Better outlay of the depreciation section, rather see periods vertically, then horizontally. The periods are difficult to move through when you need to see many months in the past or vice-versa.
    • Would love to see an ability to mandate certain fields when creating an asset as every company is different.
    • Would love to see each field have the ability to have it's own pick list, and the pick list that does exist needs to be larger to allow for a longer list rather than just 8-10, then the rest are hidden so you have to move to section 2 to see that continuing list.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    • We have participated in some prepayment testing so we know that functionality is being built out and what we saw looked really good. We're anxious to have that rolled out.
    • We'd like a cleaner way to export documentation of what was paid and EXACTLY what was paid. Currently web fees and some small balances are not shown by the website and that means making journal entries is a more manual process than hoped.
    • We've been working with folks at SureTax about discrepancies between CCH RADAR rates vs the rates which get used in SureTax. We have learned the 2 systems do not utilize the same data and we often find RADAR is more accurate.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bloomberg
    No answers on this topic
    Wolters Kluwer
    We switched our tax service from Avalara to SureTax years ago. Prior to this, we manually prepared the data and ran a report uploading and then got the tax result every time. With Suretax providing enough and flexable APIs, we redesigned and implemented our new application to communicate with SureTax seamlessly and automatically. This greatly reduced our workload, improves the system efficiency, and increased the data accuracy.
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    Usability
    Bloomberg
    Overall, it is a good value for the money we pay for it, and it helps our tax process.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    SureTax is very reliable in with the integration with Microsoft Dynamics GP. It provides accurate tax calculations in accordance with tax updates. SureTax also has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to navigate. It is easy to add customers and also run reports on the website. The overall manageability of it is great!
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    Support Rating
    Bloomberg
    No answers on this topic
    Wolters Kluwer
    It has taken much longer than we would like to get certain issues - and problems - resolved. And the initial product support as we designed the implementation left much to be desired
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bloomberg
    I think it is a superior product with more features.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    100% better. Avalara is a self-starter kit where businesses are forced to create and develop their own bundles and product types. The support that you get from the AvaTax is not as user-friendly. SureTax is full of seasoned experts and full of industry leaders. Law firms that I have worked with in the past, as well as other CPAs, only recommend SureTax.
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    Return on Investment
    Bloomberg
    • Allowed for very smooth audits
    • User friendly, allows for documentation to be stored, very useful
    • Good audit trail to see what happened.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    • Previously we paid $5,200 per year for a standalone telecom tax calculation program. The overall cost of the combined solution that we have is just about the same as the cost of everything that we have before adding that cost in.
    • Once you add in the additional benefit of the API integration and the automation that's freed up employee time, I think it's fairly safe to say that as we've grown, the combined efficiencies have allowed us to operate with two fewer employees than we would have otherwise needed.
    • Over past 4 years we have yet to be notified of any errors in our submitted regulatory taxes.
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    CCH® SureTax® Screenshots

    Screenshot of Transaction level viewScreenshot of Nexus dashboardScreenshot of Exempt Certificate ManagerScreenshot of Reporting viewScreenshot of Returns dashboardScreenshot of A return screenshot