Business
Scott Peterson is the Vice President of US Tax Policy and Government Relations for Avalara. Before that, he was the first Executive Director of the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board and Director of the South Dakota Sales Tax Division. Accounting Today named Scott as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting in 2018 and 2019. Avalara is a leading provider of cloud-based tax compliance solutions. The company helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transaction taxes and constantly adding new tax types and services. Their solutions are designed to be very fast, accurate, and easy to use, and their vision is to touch every transaction in the world. Avalara has been publicly trading since 2018 and has almost doubled since then. In this episode… The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has affected many taxpayers and countries all over the world. Some US States have decided to encourage their employees to work from home, and others are not allowing people into their offices. All this is done in a bid to control the spread of the disease. What everyone needs to understand is that things in life and business change, and sometimes things don't happen as we had imagined they would. In such cases, people have to make hard decisions based on the current state of affairs. This is the advice Scott Peterson gives to help in tackling the current disease outbreak. This week Scott Peterson joins Michael Fleming in this week’s episode to talk about some steps different States have taken to contain the disease, tax reliefs some States are providing, and the effects of the new stimulus bill set to get money into the hands of people.