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Find items with the wrong or missing AvaTax tax code
For tax and finance teams who want a quick check of item tax code assignments in Avalara AvaTax, just by asking.
On this page
Connector
Connect Avalara AvaTax, pick your AI tool and paste the prompt.
The problem
Items with the wrong tax code are taxed wrongly on every sale
Items with the wrong tax code, or none, are taxed at the wrong rate on every sale. Finding them means exporting the item and tax code lists from Avalara AvaTax and cross checking each assignment by hand.
Without PopdockAI
- Export items from AvaTax
- Export the tax code list
- Cross check every assignment by hand
- Miss inactive codes still in use
With PopdockAI
- Items and tax codes are read for the company
- Missing, unknown and inactive codes are flagged
- Assignments inconsistent with similar items are found
- Replacement codes are labelled suggestions, and nothing is updated
The prompt
Use this prompt
Copy it into any AI tool connected to PopdockAI. Swap the values in braces for your own.
**Objective:** Audit the tax code assignments on AvaTax items for `{company}` (all if omitted), optionally only items in `{item-group}`.
**Step 1: Read the items**
Call `avalara-avatax-get-item` with `company` and `item-group` when provided. Read `item-code`, `description`, `tax-code`, `tax-code-id`, `item-type`, `category` and `upc`.
**Step 2: Read the tax codes**
Call `avalara-avatax-get-tax-code` (with `company`) and keep `tax-code`, `active`, `description`, `tax-code-type` and `goods-service-code`.
**Step 3: Check**
* Items with no `tax-code` and items whose `tax-code` is not in the tax code list.
* Items whose tax code is inactive.
* Items using a generic code such as the default taxable code where the description suggests something specific (food, clothing, software, services). Mark these as suggestions only.
* Items with the same description but different tax codes.
**Step 4: Report**
List problems by severity with item-code, description, tax-code and the issue. Give counts and the top tax codes in use.
**Validation:**
* If no items return, say so. If many items return, say the check covered only what `max-records` returned.
**Rules & Guidelines:**
* This prompt is read-only. Call only the `avalara-avatax-get-*` tools named above. Never call any avalara-avatax tool that adds, updates, deletes, commits, uncommits, voids, unvoids, adjusts, refunds, locks, settles or creates anything.
* Report what the data shows. Do not guess values the tools did not return, and say so when a field came back empty.
* Use `max-records` to keep each read small, and say when a result may be truncated by it.Who it's for
One answer, three teams that use it
Tax analysts
Catch wrong tax codes early
Flagged items with the reason for each show where the rate on sales is likely wrong.
Which items for Contoso in AvaTax have no tax code or an inactive one?
Product data managers
Keep item setup consistent
Items coded differently from similar ones are flagged, so you can align the catalogue.
Find items in Avalara AvaTax for Fabrikam whose tax code looks inconsistent with similar items.
Controllers
Reduce tax exposure from setup errors
See how many items carry missing or unknown codes before an audit asks.
Audit Northwind Traders item tax codes in AvaTax and summarise the problems.
How it works
What PopdockAI does when you ask
You name the AvaTax company and your AI assistant checks every item's tax code. Any fix stays your decision, and nothing in AvaTax is updated.
01
Ask
You name the AvaTax company to check.
02
Read
It reads the items and the tax codes.
03
Check
It flags missing, unknown, inactive and inconsistent assignments.
04
Report
You get the flagged items with the reason and any suggested code marked as a suggestion.
What PopdockAI provides
The tools behind the answer
Ready made tools for Avalara AvaTax and one secure connection to your AI tool. No code, no exports.
avalara-avatax-get-item
avalara-avatax-get-tax-code
This report is built from Get data tools only. PopdockAI applies the row, field and parameter rules your admin sets, and every query is written to the audit trail.
The outcome
Wrongly coded items found before more sales
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