Moving your business functions to the cloud offers you plenty of benefits. In term of sales tax calculations, doing your sales tax in the cloud could mean that you can reduce your vulnerability to audits. How so?

No matter how trained your human resources are, you can still make mistakes, especially in sales tax compliance – something that can result in audits. With cloud-based automation, you can eliminate such errors.

…and, of course, using cloud-based sales tax applications lets you enjoy all the goodness of the cloud, such as minimal hardware acquisition and maintenance costs and automated sales tax calculations.

Here is a cloud computing infographic from Avalara – the developer of AvaTax, a cloud-based sales tax services – explaining how calculating sales tax in the cloud is highly recommended (click to enlarge):

Via Visual.ly