Demand for Managed Services Drives Growth for Vertex

BERWYN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vertex Inc., the leading provider of corporate enterprise tax solutions, today reported that the company’s Managed Services experienced robust growth in 2012 as demand for tax services increased. For the full year 2012, Vertex Managed Services grew revenue by 81 percent, primarily attributable to a 47 percent increase in clients served. Vertex manages over $1 billion in tax funds and processes in excess of 115,000 returns per month for its clients.

“Our customers are looking for more efficient ways to gain greater visibility into processes that impact their compliance”

The growth comes as corporate tax departments are under increasing pressure to manage more with less, including the manually intensive processes associated with processing and filing returns. The result is that resources are diverted from higher level, strategic activities such as audit defense and compliance assurance.

“Our clients need more time to look upstream,” says David Henkin, Vice President of Managed Services for Vertex Inc. “Corporations of all sizes continue to face an increasingly complex sales and use tax environment, and the heightened audit scrutiny associated with this means companies must find new ways of managing tax processes.”

By outsourcing processes like returns, among others, companies are able to better handle returns compliance and manage the high volume of data associated with sales and use tax returns. Partnering with Vertex Managed Services allows companies to manage expectations surrounding audit risk and added complexities, including new electronic filing mandates, changing tax laws, changing tax rates, and changing tax forms.

Vertex began offering dedicated managed services in 2006 to provide companies confidence in the accuracy and timeliness of their entire returns lifecycle. Since then, the company has grown its tax and funds management capability, experiencing a 60 percent increase in managed services staff and an expanding service portfolio with the addition of exemption certificate management services in 2012.

Henkin says he expects strong growth to continue in the company’s Managed Services in 2013, including the introduction of Business License Services to the company’s Returns Outsourcing and Exemption Certificate Management offerings.

“Our customers are looking for more efficient ways to gain greater visibility into processes that impact their compliance,” said Henkin. “A managed service solution is a strategic move for them that can be implemented quickly, with low risk.”

About Vertex

Founded in 1978, Vertex Inc. is the leading provider of corporate enterprise tax software and services worldwide.

Vertex helps corporations realize the full financial and strategic potential of corporate tax, offering a variety of solutions that streamline, integrate and automate corporate tax processes. Vertex solutions serve multinational corporations in every major line of business tax including; income, sales, consumer use, value added, communications and payroll.

The company’s offerings are showcased by Vertex® Enterprise, a data-driven, open-architecture approach to tax technology that integrates all direct and indirect tax processes and technologies with host financial system applications on a single platform. The result is increased efficiency, control, transparency and strategic decision making for Tax and Finance departments.

Vertex is a privately held company that employs over 800 professionals across the globe, at its headquarters in the U.S. (Berwyn, Pa.) and offices in Europe (London), Brazil (São Paulo), Dallas, Fort Collins, Naperville, Phoenix and Sarasota.

For more information about Vertex, visit www.vertexinc.com

For more information on Vertex® Enterprise visit www.vertexinc.com/enterprise