(877) 222-0187
 
 

Headquarters

Avalara
435 Ericksen Ave. N.E.
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

Founded

May 2000

   

Type of business

Provider of software and Web-based tax-processing system for electronic preparation, filing and payment of state and local business taxes


Mission


To substantially reduce the burden and cost of business-tax compliance and administration for businesses that pay taxes and for the federal, state and local tax agencies that administer them.
Subsidiaries Florida Software, Inc.    
Websites www.trustfile.com
www.floridasoftware.biz
   
Number of employees 22    
Officers • Jack S. Rome, Jr., chief executive officer
• J. King Woolf, III, president and chief operating officer
• Donald P. Heil, chief financial officer
   
Ownership Privately held (Delaware corporation)

   
History

• Founded in 2000 by J. King Woolf, III , Jack S. Rome, Jr., J. Kenneth Pitts
• Acquired Florida Software, Inc., in 2002
• Launched in Wisconsin, June 2003

• Acquired FormsPlus Software, Inc., in 2003

• Launched in Illinois, November 2004

• Launched in Pennsylvania, January 2005

• Launched in Connecticut, March 2005

 
Products

• Software for filing Connecticut sales/use tax and property tax

• Software for filing Florida sales/use tax, unemployment compensation tax and solid waste tax

• Software for filing Georgia sales/use tax and property tax

• Software for filing Illinois sales/use tax

• Software for filing Louisiana sales/use tax

• Software for filing Maryland sales/use tax

• Software for filing New Jersey sales/use tax

• Software for filing Pennsylvania sales/use tax
• Software for filing South Carolina sales tax
• Software for filing Tennessee sales/use tax
• Software for filing Wisconsin sales/use tax

Notable
accounts

• American Express
• AOL Time Warner
• BankOne
• Circuit City
• Chanel
• ConAgra Foods

• Walt Disney

• Costco
• General Electric
• Lockheed Martin
• Microsoft
• New York Life
• Outback Steak House
• International Paper

• PepsiCo
• Piccadilly

• Prudential
• Sprint
• Target
• Verizon Communications
• Wal-Mart


Number of customers Approximately 16,000


© Avalara, Inc. 2008