We study several Tauberian properties of regularizing transforms of tempered distributions with values in Banach spaces, that is, transforms of the form, where the kernel ϕ is a test function and ϕ y (•) = y −n ϕ(•/y). If the zeroth moment of ϕ vanishes, it is a wavelet type transform; otherwise, we say it is a non-wavelet type transform.The first aim of this work is to show that the scaling (weak) asymptotic properties of distributions are completely determined by boundary asymptotics of the regularizing transform plus natural Tauberian hypotheses. Our second goal is to characterize the spaces of Banach space-valued tempered distributions in terms of the transform M f ϕ (x, y). We investigate conditions which ensure that a distribution that a priori takes values in locally convex space actually takes values in a narrower Banach space. Special attention is paid to find the optimal class of kernels ϕ for which these Tauberian results hold.We give various applications of our Tauberian theory in the pointwise and (micro-)local regularity analysis of Banach spacevalued distributions, and develop a number of techniques which are specially useful when applied to scalar-valued functions and distributions. Among such applications, we obtain the full weakasymptotic series expansion of the family of Riemann-type distributions R β (x) = ∞ n=1 e iπxn 2 /n 2β , β ∈ C, at every rational point. We also apply the results to regularity theory within generalized function algebras, to the stabilization of solutions for a class of Cauchy problems, and to Tauberian theorems for the Laplace transform; in addition, we find a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of f (t 0 , ξ) ∈ S ′ (R n ξ ), where f (t, ξ) ∈ S ′ (R n t × R n ξ ).