http://ak.channel9.msdn.com/ch9/3df7/4cd8b1e0-94cb-4d97-9f6e-9ee501283df7/avalara1_100_ch9.jpg Turns out that sales taxes are more difficult to calculate than it might seem. More than 15,000 taxable regions inside the US form a mosiac for sales tax calculation. Fire districts, state districts, special taxation districts, and state rules on items all play a part. Avalara put together a new product to show the lines between taxation districts on Windows Azure. ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle talks with Jared Vogt, Avalara's CTO, about how they developed the services, how they needed to think about moving an application from their data centers into Windows Azure. When they wanted to show on a map how a tax is calculated, they turned to Windows Azure and Bing Maps. Jared provides a demo too of GeoSalesTax.com. About AvalaraAvalara is a leader in providing sales tax service online. The company provides the sales tax calculation services as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering using Windows Server and SQL Server. Headquartered in Bainbridge Island, WA, Avalara is the recognized leader in web-based sales tax solutions, and is transforming the sales and use tax compliance process for businesses of all sizes. Avalara’s AvaTax family of products provides end-to-end compliance solutions and is regarded as the fastest, easiest, most accurate and affordable way for companies to address their statutory tax requirements. Avalara is the industry's most trusted provider of sales and use tax automation solutions and is one of America’s fastest growing companies earning recognitions such as Microsoft’s SaaS Partner of the Year for 2010. Other ISV VideosFor videos on Windows Azure Platform, see: Accumulus Makes Subscription Billing Easy for Windows AzureAzure Email-Enables Lists, Low-Cost Storage for SharePointCredit Card Processing for Windows Phone 7 on Windows AzureCrowd-Sourcing Public Sector App for Windows Phone, AzureFood Buster Game Achieves Scalability with Windows AzureBI Solutions Join On-Premises To Windows Azure Using Star Analytics Command CenterStorSimple Integrates On-Premises, Cloud Storage with Windows AzureHow Quark Promote Hosts Multiple Tenants on Windows AzureNewsGator Moves 3 Million Blog Posts Per Day on Azure en Tue, 21 May 2013 12:20:18 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 12:20:18 GMT Rev9