Why are Marketplace Taxes so complex?

Transactions in online marketplaces can involve many different combinations of buyers, sellers and goods and services . Each of them need to be processed differently depending on the applicable tax regulations in different countries and states . E.g. buyers can be private consumers or business customers, vendors can be businesses or private persons, products can be physical products, digital goods or electronic services and marketplaces or vendors can be required to collect the taxes. In order to be able to handle these combinations a Dedicated and Dynamic Tax Software for Online Marketplaces is required .

What Tax Software do Online Marketplaces use?

In order to be able to handle the incredible complexities when it comes down to taxes, Marketplace operators use dynamic and dedicated tax solutions especially designed for Online Marketplaces . Global Tax for Marketplaces and More (GT4M) comprises unique tax solutions for Online Marketplaces , which solve the complexities that come with physical products, electronic services, multi vendors, private consumers and business customers from different countries and states on a single platform At its heart is Global Tax as a Service which runs in the Google Cloud and in the Blue Antoinette Commerce Cloud and which provides global tax rates and a dynamic tax rules engine

What is Global Tax as a Service?

Global Tax as a Service is a REST API and a powerful backend which enables you to calculate and collect taxes on your marketplace, shop, ERP system, app or custom solution. It runs in the Google Cloud and in the Blue Antoinette Commerce Cloud

How does Global Tax for Marketplaces and More (GT4M) differ from other tax solutions?

Global Tax for Marketplaces and More (GT4M) is especially designed to solve the complexities of Online Marketplaces with physical products, electronic services, multi vendors, private consumers and business customers from different countries and states on a single platform calulates taxes not only at the checkout but on any page of the marketplace where prices are displayed. This is especially required in European countries does not necessarily require suppliers to create their own account in order to be able to calculate taxes depending on the existence of VAT numbers of the suppliers is a hybrid cloud solution. If you do not want rely on an external service in the cloud you can also run the dedicated tax solutions on premise is a multi cloud solution. At its heart is Global Tax as a Service which currently runs in the Google Cloud and in the Blue Antoinette Commerce Cloud . Based on Kubernetes it can easily run on any cloud.

GT4M – Global Tax for Marketplaces and More

Global Tax for Marketplaces and More

Dynamic Tax Calculation For Your Platform - Worldwide

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GT4M - The Mustang among the tax solutions

GT4M enables you to operate tax compliant eCommerce solutions of all kinds. It solves the complexities of global B2B- and B2C-marketplaces as well as the needs of regional or multinational shop owners. It supports physical products, digital goods and electronic services as well as multi vendors on a single platform.

Global Tax Calculation

Calculates and collects US Sales Tax, VAT, GST, SST, TOT and or COT

Dynamic Tax Rule Engine

Deducts or applies the relevant origin based- or destination based tax

Regional Templates

Tax Rule- and Localization Templates for the EU, US, Australia and India. Generic template for all other regions

Multi Vendor Ready

Supports incredible complexities assoziated with multi vendor scenarios

Compliance

Applies taxes on each page, not just at checkout. Required in many jurisdictions

Global Tax Rates

Access to worldwide standard tax rates and reduced tax rates

Localization

All fields are fully customizable by location.

Geolocation

Displays prices incl. or excl. tax by customer country

B2B & B2C Ready

Supports B2B processes like Intra Community Supply, Reverse Charge, Small Business, Nexus and Commissions

VAT-Number Validation

EU-VAT-number validation by the VAT Information Exchange System (VIES)

GT4M is available as a fully integrated solution for dedicated marketplace and shop systems, but is also open for any eCommerce- and ERP-system, App or Custom Solution of your choice. GT4M is powered by a powerful tax rules engine, which calculates and collects indirect taxes dynamically.

REST API + Backend

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Global Tax as a Service on the Blue Antoinette Marketplace and take advantage of Blue Antoinette Integrated Billing and Single Sign-On.

Integrate the app, shop, marketplace, ERP-system or solution of your choice through a REST API and take advantage of a powerful backend for you and/or your vendors.

SAP Native Integration

The Global Tax ABAP Client enables your SAP system to get access to Global Tax Rates through Global Tax as a Service.

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Use the Global Tax ABAP Client natively in SAP to integrate SAP ERP 6.0 or SAP S/4HANA seamlessly and on-stack with
Global Tax as a Service

SAP Cloud Integration

Integrate SAP S/4 HANA with Global Tax as a Service via an Integration Flow (iFlow) in SAP Cloud Integration.

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Use the official SAP iFlow "SAP Cloud Integration with External Tax Calculation Engines" in SAP Cloud Integration (CPI) to integrate SAP S/4 HANA with Global Tax as a Service

Global Tax Blockchain Link (Beta)

Access our Smart Contract and consult our oracle directly from the Blockchain.

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Connect Smart Contracts on any blockchain and receive tax rate data in real time. Global Tax Blockchain Link runs on a
Blue Antoinette Chainlink Node.

Integration with the eCommerce
Shop

"WooCommerce"

Integration with the Multi Vendor -Marketplace

"Dokan"

Integration with the Multi Vendor -Marketplace

"WC Vendors"

Integration with the Multi Vendor -Marketplace

"WC Marketplace"

Integration with the Multi Vendor -Marketplace

"Product Vendors"

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What our customers are saying

“Sales Tax for my vendor site was becoming a concern. I was concerned that I would not be able to collect sales taxes for my vendors from their store location. Buying this turned my concern into smiles.”

Art of Santa Fe

[Santa Fe, USA]

“Changing tax legislation in Australia and around the world seemed to make our plan of a global eCommerce marketplace impossible. Until GT4M stepped in and fulfilled our tax requirements in no time.”

Find Future Fashion

[Melbourne, Australia]

“We did not find any other tax solution which could handle the complexities of physical and digital goods on a single marketplace out of the box. With multi vendors, business customers and private consumers.”

Blue Antoinette

[Vienna, Europe]

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Learn more about our Consulting Offerings

With our turnkey and customizable software you are very well prepared. However, tax requirements for marketplaces can be overwhelming. Therefore we offer you a UGTIM™ based requirement analysis together with your tax consultant(s). If you want us to manage your complete project, you can also opt for UGTIM Project Management, which is delivered by a PMI certified Project Manager (PMP). Additionally, if you run a marketplace yet, we also offer you a health check to ensure, that your implementation is still up-to-date.

Praxis Proven

PMI Certified Project Manager

UGTIM Based

Streamlines requirements definition of Governments, Tax Consultants and Business Executives

Deliver your Global Tax Project in scope, budget and time with a PMI certified Project Management Professional

Check your current system in a practice proven manner, if it is still compliant with current tax requirements

UGTIM

UGTIM™ is a flexible requirements analysis and modeling methodology especially designed for Global Taxation Projects which enables relevant stakeholders like Tax Consultants, Business Executives and Software Companies to define, discuss and to document requirements in a structured and highly accurate manner and in a common language. It has emerged as part of successful projects in the US, EU and Australia. It is not a theoretical model but a tool that has proven itself many times in practice.

GT4M – Global Tax for Marketplaces and More

Global Tax for Marketplaces and More