Tax Engine

Accurate tax calculations instantly, everywhere you operate

What is Fonoa Tax Engine

Tax Engine calculates the correct indirect tax treatment for every transaction in real time, across 190+ jurisdictions. Sub-200ms, one data model, and built to scale with your business without rebuilding as you grow.

Capabilities

The right tax decision, every time

Open architecture, one data model

Slots cleanly into checkout, billing, invoicing, and AP/AR through a versioned API. The same data model powers every Fonoa module you connect.

Tax calculation at speed

Sub-200ms tax determination applied at the transaction level, with no impact on your checkout or invoicing flows.

Global rules, always current

Tax logic across 190+ jurisdictions kept up to date automatically. No rate tables, no manual updates, no engineering tickets when regulations change.

Easily configurable to your business

Custom rules, overrides, and logic adjustments without raising a ticket. Tax Engine bends to your business model, not the other way around.

Built-in threshold monitoring

Track revenue thresholds automatically. Know when a registration obligation is approaching before it becomes a compliance problem.

Full transparency

Every determination comes with a clear breakdown of what was calculated and why.
The proof is in the numbers

Fast to go live. Even faster to run.

190+
Jurisdictions covered

Real-time tax determination across VAT, GST, and Sales Tax.

<0.2s
Determination response time

No latency impact on checkout or invoicing flows.

One
Standard data model

The same integration powers determination, e-invoicing, and returns globally.

Zero
Rate tables to maintain

Fonoa automatically keeps global tax logic up to date.

How teams use Tax Engine

Launching into new markets

Handles the local tax logic from day one for new jurisdictions. No rebuilding or local rule research needed. One engine, global coverage, including the US.

Handling complex transaction flows

Calculates the right treatment automatically when your product has marketplace, subscription, or cross-border complexity.

Keeping AP/AR consistent

Applies the same logic across every touchpoint from customer to supplier based on one central configuration.

Customer stories

Don’t just take our word for it. Why companies around the world prefer Fonoa.

Fonoa is a core piece of indirect tax infrastructure.

One Jae Paik
Tax Director at Fin

36

countries

58.8%

reduction in errors

100%

automated validation

Fonoa is one of the few platforms that truly understands digital economy businesses and supports the full indirect tax lifecycle.

Wei Jie Siow
Tax Director at Coda

90%

faster tax calculation

4

week implementation

2M

transactions per year

When we talk about scaling, we want to automatically trigger an API to see if the tax ID is valid or not. Fonoa's API was a huge differentiator.

Renan Bastazini
Staff Technical Program Manager at Wellhub

33%

reduction in tax ID validation tickets

15%

submitted IDs caught as invalid

#1

API speed vs. other vendors

Fonoa's solutions aren't just saving us time, they're helping us stay ahead of regulatory change, globally.

Kirsten Best
Head of VAT at Remote

480

hours saved per year

95+

countries live

100s

corrected VAT IDs
Rated by the people who rely on us

Built on trust.
Measured in results.

100%
Customer retention

Every customer who started 2025 with us renewed.

97%
Ease of doing business

G2 reviewers highlighted end-to-end collaboration and availability.

94%
Quality of support

G2 reviewers highlighted
response times and expertise.

4.6/5
Gartner Peer Insights rating

Independent reviews from
verified enterprise users.

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