Expert for the rapidly growing short-term lodging marketplace, Rob Stephens co-founded Avalara MyLodgeTax in 2002 out of his own necessity to understand and manage hotel tax compliance with his rental property. Avalara MyLodgeTax is a leading provider of tax compliance solutions for the vacation rental and travel industries. Avalara MyLodgeTax simplifies compliance and manages the licenses and hotel occupancy tax filings for thousands of vacation rental owners and managers across the United States. Since starting, the MyLodgeTax product offering has grown to including lodging tax solutions for large multibillion-dollar hotel and travel companies. Rob’s passion and know-how with complicated lodging tax compliance in the travel industry has presented him with regular speaking engagements at industry events.

About Us: Avalara helps businesses of all sizes get tax compliance right. We provide prebuilt integrations with the big-name financial and business management systems you trust, as well as a robust API for do-it-yourself business builders. Avalara delivers cloud-based compliance solutions for transaction tax types, like sales and use, VAT, GST, excise, communications, lodging, and more. If you are an accounting practitioner, Avalara has a suite of Avalara for Accountants solutions, purpose-built to help you directly support your clients. We’re headquartered in Seattle, with offices across the U.S. and in Canada, the U.K., Belgium, Brazil, and India.