Overview
What is CCH® SureTax®?
CCH 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…
Great Experience with CCH® SureTax®
Room for improvements
Trustworthy system!
CCH® SureTax® - a Solid Aid to Tax Prep for Telecoms
SureTax!
SureTax Solutions!!!
CCH SureTax is not recommended
SureTax has been Great!
Good but could be improved
Robust Tax management tool
CCH® SureTax® is a winner!
Solid Exemption Tool.
Thoughts on SureTax.
Our experience with CCH SureTax since 2021.
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Popular Features
- Geolocation for Tax Assessment (45)8.888%
- Sales and Use Taxes (63)8.282%
- 3rd-Party Software Integrations (44)6.666%
- Tax Data Reporting (56)6.565%
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What is CCH® SureTax®?
CCH 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…
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Features
Type of tax
A list of the different types of taxes that can be filed using tax compliance software.
- 8.2Sales and Use Taxes(63) Ratings
Software is capable of calculating and filing sales and use taxes.
- 9Cross-border Taxes(1) Ratings
Software is capable of calculating and filing taxes, such as customs, across countries.
- 4.9VAT / GST Taxes(4) Ratings
Ability to calculate and manage VAT and GST taxes.
- 7.1Energy and Fuel Taxes(6) Ratings
Ability to calculate and manage energy and/or fuel taxes.
Tax Reporting & Compliance
Activities relating to tax filing, reporting, document management, and exemption certificate processing.
- 8.8Geolocation for Tax Assessment(45) Ratings
Ability to use geolocation, which is more precise than zip codes, for mapping taxes to specific jurisdictions.
- 6.63rd-Party Software Integrations(44) Ratings
Pre-built integrations with various systems such as ERP, ecommerce, CRM, invoicing and billing, accounting, and procurement applications.
- 6.5Tax Data Reporting(56) Ratings
Ability to export transaction data for tax filing.
- 6.7Compliance Administration Management(42) Ratings
Ability to facilitate tax preparation, filing, and tax remittances across local, state, and federal jurisdictions.
- 7.9Tax Exemption Processing(44) Ratings
Ability to generate, track, exemption certificates from sales invoices.
- 7.2Tax Document Management(33) Ratings
Collection and storage of tax documents, especially exemption certificates, and ability to retrieve them to use for tax audits.
- 5.7Complex Tax Scenario Management(42) Ratings
Ability to automate handling of tax holidays and other anomalies.
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What is CCH® SureTax®?
CCH® SureTax® Features
Type of tax Features
- Supported: Sales and Use Taxes
- Supported: Energy and Fuel Taxes
Tax Reporting & Compliance Features
- Supported: Geolocation for Tax Assessment
- Supported: 3rd-Party Software Integrations
- Supported: Tax Data Reporting
- Supported: Compliance Administration Management
- Supported: Tax Exemption Processing
- Supported: Tax Document Management
- Supported: Complex Tax Scenario Management
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CCH® SureTax® Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | USA, Canada |
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Reviews
(1-25 of 43)A+ Solution In State and Local Tax Calculations.
- Integration
- Computation
- Segmentation
- Unbundling
- More people other than David Rubenstein that understand Telecom.
- System is a bit outdated.
- Informational detail.
Great Experience with CCH® SureTax®
- Provided accurate rates
- Ease of use
- Good customer service
- Assumptions built into the SKUs related to construction
- difficulty of getting set up
- Complexity
Room for improvements
- Sorry I cannot think of anything SureTax does particularly well.
- Easier connection with Netsuite.
- Paid for the higher service but are doing more of the hands on processing.
- Timing of CCH team processing so there are not multiple emails going around trying to resolve filing issues.
- Easier navigation in the CCH SureTax website.
Trustworthy system!
- Applying existing exemption certificates to invoices
- Calculating correct tax rates
- Lots of manual data entry still
CCH® SureTax® - a Solid Aid to Tax Prep for Telecoms
- Sales Taxes for each state, city, metro area, etc
- FCC charges in each state
- PUC charges for the phones
- Listing everything out by month, alphabetically, clearly
- Some areas of the website feel clunky - like the beginning map
- I wish I could access this account directly from Rev.io via a link
SureTax!
- File & pay on time!
- The system is very detail into each municipality & such beyond my calculation.
- The problem that we're having with some states needs to be solved.
- The GSLR report can be easier to read.
SureTax Solutions!!!
- Local communications taxes
- Good interface
- Reports
- Report by city
- Reports by category
CCH SureTax is not recommended
- Applying appropriate sales tax to customers
- Customer service
- Having a dedicated sales rep
- Transparency with their billing
Good but could be improved
- When the tax rates are available they are normally correct.
- Support usually updates open cases fairly quickly.
- The website is not overly complicated.
- Support has gotten better over the last year.
- Having to delete a user and recreate them because password reset does not work correctly is bad. As an update, this does sometimes still happen.
- After contacting support due to some missing tax rates for certain zip codes we were told this was a known problem. The case has been open almost a month. Eventually, they did take care of this issue.
Solid Exemption Tool.
- Geocode determination for Urban Zone exemptions.
- Data Exchange Rules.
- Line Item Tax Breakdown.
- Importing transactions.
- Drop down selection.
- Editing existing exemptions.
Thoughts on SureTax.
- Displays Tax Information.
- Basic Reporting Tool.
- Allows for Custom Period Choice for Reporting Purposes.
- Reporting needs to be more extensive, too basic as currently set up.
- Ability to run custom extracts using filters.
- Seeing Tax Rates and rules in a much more detailed manner.
Our experience with CCH SureTax since 2021.
- 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.
- We have returns enabled. For the most part, it is a terrific service. I couldn't imagine having to file 26 returns monthly. There are some hiccups we have encountered with additional Schedules and tax forms that are not populating for certain states, but those are being fixed as we go. Any errors I have come across, they directly looked at and have either corrected or educated me on what I should be seeing.
- SureTax does not "see" miscellaneous credit and debit memos, even if tax is credited or debited. There is not a calculation there, so I do understand why it does not include it in reporting, however it would be nice if an amount is filled into the tax field for SureTax to break it down by the customer address on the memo just as it would an invoice so I wouldn't have to manually put in a Transaction Adjustment in SureTax
- When having to add Nexus to a state, it would be nice if SureTax "knew" if it was a Vendor Use or Sales Tax for a Remote Seller automatically. Clearly, the laws and thresholds are already built into the system, so the answer must be there. This causes confusion for the first couple of returns to file when we have a new state.
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- Stays updated on current sales tax rates.
- In our experience, CCH® SureTax® goes down frequently; recently as often as multiple times per month since November 2023 to January 2024.
- In my opinion, receiving support from CCH® SureTax® is near impossible because they say the system either wasn't down in the first place or they request information using language that we don't understand even though we provide the support team with as much information as we can.
- In our experience, sales that are shipped to California, specifically throughout the Bay Area, calculate with the incorrect tax rate. For example, our reports will tell us that a sale that originally shipped to Foster City, CA shipped to San Diego, CA.
Would Not Recommend this product
- The site is user friendly
- The site is easy to navigate
- In my experience, if there is an issue with your account your account rep isn't very responsive
- In my experience, if there is an issue with an import there isn't much help
- Not all transactions import like they should and causes issues on the returns side of things
Okay, but could be better
- Tax Rates being the most recent rates
- Easier to figure out what we are off and what tax type something is
- Being able to tell when an exemption needs to be updated.
- Getting more detail reports
- Better response times
- More of you to tell me what I need to do since you are the tax experts and I am not, but doing all the research and work
- Returns being more accurate when they are generated.
Responds times
Returns being generated not being easy and taking a bunch of time to do
Not having enough report options
35 States of Sales Tax
- Accuracy
- Detailed reports to be able to file accurately with the states
- have not had any downtime
- Help for states with tricky sales tax situations like CA Partial Exemptions
- Help for states with tricky sales tax situations like AL Machine Rate
CCH needs improvement
- Easy to set up customer with tax exemptions
- Reports - favor telecom industry. Need to be universal
- Need to be able to call Support instead of always talking through support portal
- Resolving problems has been the biggest headache. Literally took several years to figure out an issue
Unmatched Technical Support - Ease of Use - NetSuite Integration could be better - Take your Time Testing before go-live
- Fast Support - Easy to Reach
- Always provides correct sales tax rates
- Easy to use UI, geographic map with nexus thresholds make for ease of visibility, thresholds set to email to admin when close on transaction count or revenue into new states
- NetSuite integration is clunky, does not feed into native fields as renders some features useless
- Pricing increase after 3 year contract was astronomical, were able to negotiate however.
- Implementation should have been better tested by all parties, resulted in amending multiple returns. However, we did have a very tight timeline to integrate.
reliability over the years
- tax by type
- taxing juristictions
- bundles
- ease of mapping
- classification definitions
- customization
Genuine Review
- Tax Calaculation
- Exemption certificate
- Reporting
- Address Validation
- If possible want the elemination of Situs rule concept
Why your business needs CCH® SureTax®
- Communication
- Support
- Accuracy
- Layout is a little confusing
Dependable, easy to use, and a great price!
- Ease of use
- User Intuitive
- Automation
- Local area tax rating engine
- Portal intuitiveness
We're Glad We Implemented SureTax
- user interface is clearly laid out
- there is a test environment completely separate from production data
- the dashboard provides quick notification when the filing team needs answers to any questions and a way to respond directly to each
- 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.
Love the Quoting tool
- Testing
- Displaying results
- The quote return requires multiple clicks to dig deeper into results
- The "Need Help" Chat button is directly over the quote submit button
- Reports take a long time to download and often fail
SureTax does the job, but there was friction getting everything clarified and set up
- Calculate taxes
- Provide Compliance reports for all jurisdictions
- It was difficult in the early stages to get timely authoritative responses from the product specialist assigned to us.
- Communication of rules and rationales was not top-notch
- It can take much longer than we prefer for trouble tickets to get resolved.