Service Objects' DOTS FastTax is a hosted, programmable XML Web Service that provides you with real-time, up-to-date sales and use tax rate information for every U.S. and Canada tax jurisdiction. DOTS FastTaxSM allows you to integrate sales and use tax rate information lookup into your Web sites, applications, and business processes. DOTS FastTax enables a simple, fast, and accurate way to calculate sales tax and use tax for only pennies per transaction.

• Tax rate information updated monthly.
• Locate current and correct tax rates by postal code, city/county/state, or exact street address.
• Provides all U.S. and Canadian tax rates at the component level (state, county, city), and includes a combined rate value.
• Tax rates are provided securely via XML.

DOTS FastTax contains the sales and use tax rates by postal code for all U.S. states and Canadian territories - updated quarterly. DOTS FastTax will help your company save money by letting you focus on your business, rather than trying to keep up with state tax rate and postal code changes. By hosting all of the tax rate information on our own servers, Service Objects takes care of the updates for you. Furthermore, accurate tax calculations require accurate addresses, we utilize our own address validation service to standardize and verify full street addresses to the ZIP+4 level.

• Real-time XML Web service interface. Batch also available.
• Service Level Agreement of 99.995%.
• No customer data is retained or stored.
• HTTPS protocol encrypts transactions sent to and from DOTS Web Services.
• Primary and backup data centers on opposite coasts.
• Fully redundant, load-balanced hardware and Internet connections are used.