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Tassetta vs a bookkeeper or CPA firm
A competent CPA can absolutely handle your sales tax. This page is not an argument that they cannot. Tassetta keeps a CPA in the process for exactly that reason.
The problem is how the work is usually delivered. Spreadsheets, manual portal logins, and a status you only learn at quarter-end or when the invoice lands.
Three things change
You can see it while it happens
Ask where you stand in Ohio today and you wait for someone to open a spreadsheet.
Open the portal. Every state, its threshold percentage, what is filed, what is pending, what is overdue.
Nexus is measured, not remembered
Thresholds get checked when someone gets to it, usually at quarter-end.
Recalculated continuously against a versioned rules dataset covering all 50 states and DC.
The price does not move with the hours
Billed on time spent, which rises exactly when your volume does.
$1,000 a year. Unlimited states and unlimited filings.
What does not change
A person still checks the return before it is filed. That was always the good part of working with a firm, and removing it to save money is how brands end up filing numbers nobody looked at.
When a firm is the right call
If your tax picture is tangled up with income tax, entity structure or international questions, you want a full accounting relationship and sales tax is one piece of it. Tassetta does one thing completely. Plenty of our clients keep their CPA for everything else and use us for sales tax specifically.