Avalara, Inc. announced that the state of Missouri has leveraged Avalara Tax Research to power the state's publicly available online sales and use tax rate map. With Avalara, Missouri provides access to current sales and use tax rates as well as special item taxes like food, domestic utilities, and more in the state. Missouri allows cities, counties, and other local governments to administer and establish their own sales tax rates and rules.

The breadth of tax jurisdictions, rates, and rules can create challenges for businesses when determining sales tax rates and keeping up with rate and taxability rules as they change. To make tax information readily available to businesses, Missouri adopted Avalara Tax Research, which is a self-service tax management tool that leverages geographic information system (GIS) technology to provide sales and use tax rates and thoroughly researched and verified tax information. Using Avalara Tax Research, Missouri benefits from having businesses apply more accurate sales tax calculations.

Compatible with popular map-based apps, like Google Maps, Avalara Tax Research compares addresses with tax boundary information, including statutory regulations and local ordinances, to increase the accuracy of the applicable rate choices and visibility into other applicable taxes. With Avalara Tax Research, Missouri regulators can better communicate with one another on information related to boundaries, rates, rules, and traceability. Additionally, the unified, consistent portal for all tax information enables Missouri to easily keep track of ordinances, rules, taxability information, and proposed tax changes in an online library of historical information.