How Control Plane Eliminates Potential Tax Penalties, Saves Time With Kintsugi’s Fully Automated Tax Compliance Solution
Control Plane is popular among engineers for its innovative Universal Cloud Identity technology that unifies AWS, GCP, and Azure services into one coherent platform. It's like a simplified version of Kubernetes because it delivers the same power without the complexities since the platform handles the configurations, service mesh, and stack setups.
Its intelligent Capacity AI™ automatically optimizes your computing resources across your entire setup. It also includes built-in monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, so you can easily track how your applications are running without needing extra software expertise.
For companies using a mix of cloud and on-premises systems, Control Plane's Cloud Wormhole® technology lets you securely connect to private networks no matter where they are. Plus, its built-in service mesh ensures secure communication and smooth traffic flow between services without extra hassle.
As the company puts it:
"Control Plane transforms the typically months-long process of setting up production-grade infrastructure into a matter of minutes, allowing your team to focus entirely on building features that matter to your business while maintaining complete control and visibility over your entire stack. This platform was designed for all companies that have cloud computing needs."
Challenge: Sales tax compliance became a growing problem
Control Plane has customers across multiple tax jurisdictions, so they must handle complex tax compliance. Initially, they managed their tax manually but found it "time-consuming and prone to errors."
"Managing sales tax compliance was becoming a growing problem, the team wanted automation to help with the following: complex jurisdictional tax rules that changed frequently; manual tracking and reporting; increased risk of non-compliance and potential penalties; and scalability concerns as Control Plane expanded."
Control Plane turned to tax automation solutions to help them solve the problem. However, their first provider wasn't a perfect match for their needs.
They found it "either too rigid, expensive or difficult to integrate with our existing financial stack." Another factor that turned them off was the need for a "regular manual intervention" since they were looking for an automated solution.
"The previous solution lacked flexibility, was expensive at scale, and required significant (regular) manual intervention to stay up to date with tax changes. It also didn't integrate very well with our platform, making the automation less valuable than we had hoped."
Solution: Switching to Kintsugi's sales tax automation tool
Since Control Plane wasn't happy with their first provider, so they looked for an alternative. A colleague recommended Kintsugi and they immediately scheduled a demo.
With Kintsugi, Control Plane was able to address the previous sales tax issues they encountered. Kintsugi automatically and accurately calculates sales tax for each jurisdiction and reduces manual efforts of tracking, filing and reporting.
"The automated tax calculation and compliance reporting features have been game-changers. These ensure that we remain compliant across multiple regions without increasing our internal tax workload, allowing our finance team to focus on strategies driving the business instead of tax."
Control Plane was also impressed with Kintsugi's real-time updates on tax law changes and how it seamlessly integrates with their finance and billing system.
When asked what Kintsugi feature stood out the most for them, Control Plane said:
"Automated tax calculations and filings that reduce administrative overhead. Ease of integration with our existing payment and accounting platforms, we are a software company, we appreciate good software design."
Impact: Zero penalties and scaling the business without worries
Since switching to Kintsugi, Control Plane noticed several advantages: a major reduction in time spent on tax compliance, improved accuracy in tax reporting, and minimized risk of errors.
Our sales tax automation tools also allow them to "scale without the worry of how we would keep up with the complexities of tax."
Per Control Plane, here are some of the benefits they enjoy after using Kintsugi:
- Reduced tax compliance workload
- No penalties. Kintsugi eliminated potential tax penalties.
- Improved reporting accuracy without having to hire a dedicated tax expert.
Control Plane is satisfied with Kintsugi's automation system because it truly delivers.
"The ability to fully automate tax compliance, ensuring accuracy and efficiency without manual intervention. This allows us to stay focused on business growth instead of tax management."
Control Plane is also happy with how Kintsugi ensures their tax compliance scales parallel to their expansion. So, when asked if they would recommend Kintsugi, here's what they say:
"Yes, especially for SaaS companies like Control Plane looking for an automated, scalable, and hassle-free approach to tax compliance."
About Kintsugi
Based in San Francisco and founded in 2022, Kintsugi is dedicated to taking the stress out of sales tax compliance. Our platform automates the entire process, delivering high performance, reliability, and flexibility as your business scales. Top companies like Alchemy Marketing and Cabi use our app. Sasha Novakovich of Alchemy Cloud just spent three minutes on the platform and understood their sales tax exposure.
We can do the same for you. Sign up or book a demo now.
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