Taxes and technology webinar | ION + Avalara

Taxes and technology: Reducing risk during market disruptions

DATE
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

TIME
9:00 a.m. PT/noon ET/4:00 p.m. GMT

DURATION
60 minutes, including live Q&A

Cut tax risk and cost during disruptions — reroutes and mitigation options

Last year reshaped commodity flows via tariffs, sanctions, and regulations. This year will bring more disruption. Join ION and Avalara to see how insight and automation cut tax compliance risk and cost — and help protect margins in a tougher market.

What you’ll learn

Practical takeaways for trading ops, finance, tax, and risk.

How operational disruptions and rerouting create hidden tax and settlement risk
Why moving tax earlier in the life cycle reduces exceptions, disputes, and manual rework

How firms scale into new markets without hiring additional tax experts
How stronger tax controls help demonstrate “best available” governance and reduce exposure
How ION + Avalara ATE integration supports faster decisions with consistent tax logic

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About the speakers

Bubba Lange

Senior Director, Product Solution Engineers at Avalara

Bubba has more than 35 years of ERP implementation, sales and distribution, business development, finance, and transportation experience. At Avalara, he’s responsible for presales solution definition across all excise tax automation product lines.

Richard Murphy

Richard Murphy

VP Product Management - Market Owner for Petroleum at ION

Richard has over 35 years of experience solving strategic, tactical, and technological problems across more than 100 organizations, including over 25 years addressing strategy, analytics, marketing, trading, inventory, logistics, and P&L challenges for more than 70 energy firms spanning crude oil, refined products, LNG, NGLs, natural gas, and power.

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