Avalara Property Tax

What Avalara Property Tax solves

Property tax compliance is a calendar problem wrapped in a data problem. Assessing and collecting jurisdictions each set their own forms, valuation methods, filing deadlines, appeal windows, and installment schedules — and they notify you on paper, on their own timetable. Most teams absorb that with spreadsheets, shared mailboxes, and institutional memory.

Avalara Property Tax replaces these manual methods with a single system of record for real and business personal property. It ingests jurisdiction documents, standardizes the data, prepares returns, surfaces valuation discrepancies before appeal windows close, and tracks bills and payments through to disbursement — with an audit trail behind every step.

Getting started

Avalara Property Tax for Enterprise and Avalara Property Tax for Accountants expose a read-only GraphQL API for extracting, reporting on, and synchronizing application data into downstream systems. You provision access directly against an active tenant using your account credentials (no public trial or sandbox).

Core capabilities

Intelligent document processing & workflow tracking

Ingest and digitize tax bills, notices, and forms using OCR and AI validation. Track account ownership, statuses, and audit trails in a centralized calendar.

Return preparation & asset mapping

Import fixed asset registers and apply category mappings. Use depreciation calculations and state-specific trend factors to produce signature-ready returns across 20,000+ jurisdictions.

Assessment review & appeals tracking

Compare assessed values against depreciated asset values to surface overvaluations. Track statutory appeal deadlines, ratios, and review dates directly per account.

Bill management & payment workflows

Centralize tax bills with line-item details. Track multi-installment schedules, discount windows, and penalties while routing approved records for disbursement.

When to use Avalara Property Tax

Use Avalara Property Tax when you need to:

Mirror jurisdiction, assessor, and collector catalogs into external ERP or MDM systems
Ingest assessment values, liabilities, and bill details into BI and reporting pipelines
Track return due dates, statutory appeal windows, and installment dates in custom calendars
Screen for overvaluation and prioritize assessment appeals programmatically
Forecast property tax liabilities and installment cash requirements in AP or treasury
Reconcile client, legal entity, and property account hierarchies with corporate records
Populate custom dashboards, UI pickers, and internal tools with live compliance data

How it integrates

Avalara Property Tax integrates through a read-only GraphQL API for data queries and extraction, automated partner connectors (like Anybill for check disbursement), and ERP file imports. Use the core application interface for document ingestion, return preparation, asset depreciation, appeals filing, and payment approvals.