Managed Service Providers (MSPs) the world over are taking the business telecommunications market by storm.
Computers and phones have converged, voice services are now just an application on your computer or smartphone, so it’s only logical that businesses prefer the simplicity of sourcing their telecommunications solutions from their trusted MSPs. It’s great recurring margin for the MSPs and better service for their customers, with a single point of supply and support for their ICT services.
In most countries, it’s easy for MSPs to sell and bill telecommunications; they just plug their PBX or upstream telco provider into a SaaS telephony billing system (like Datagate) – and plug that into their accounting system – and away they go!
In the USA however, there is more complexity to it for MSPs who want to sell telecommunications. Every state, county and city jurisdiction has the ability to add taxes and surcharges to the telecommunications bill, depending on where the calls are made from. In addition to that, there are various registrations and other compliance requirements, some of which are also dependent of where their telecommunications customers are located. In short, American MSPs need good expert help and advice, along with a billing system that can handle all the taxes to ensure they stay out of trouble and meet all of their compliance obligations.
At Datagate, we’ve made it easy for MSPs to bill telecommunications anywhere in America and still be able to sleep at night. We’ve teamed up with the top authorities on tax, Wolters Kluwer to include CCH SureTax with every American implementation of our Datagate billing solution. We chose CCH SureTax, because when it comes to tax calculations, you have to get it right, no matter what the complexities.
In addition to Wolters Kluwer, we partnered with two of the best telecommunications tax & compliance consultancies in America; GSA and Telecom Professionals Inc. These two specialist consultancies have the experience, skills and expertise to ensure that MSPs using Datagate and CCH SureTax get their taxes calculated optimally & correctly and are fully compliant in the jurisdictions within which they operate. They can even help MSPs get out of trouble if they have been selling telecommunications in the past without being compliant.
American telecommunications tax and compliance doesn’t have to be a roadblock if you’re got the right partners with the right expertise on your team. We’ve packaged that all together for our American customers of Datagate.
Mark Loveys 