For the success of our clients we connect Taxation and Technology. We want to be recognized as a leading boutique for 'Taxation and SAP' by our clients, employees and business partners.

Significant amounts of money flow through a company's operations. Our integrated services are aimed at the identification and implementation of realizing (substantial) global tax improvements and meet automated in SAP legal Tax (compliance) requirements. 

We implement SAP certified add-ons for multinationals due to close to real time data requests by the tax authorities (OECD's SAF-T originated) in France, Hungary, Italy, Lituania, Norway, Poland and Spain (SII Spain).

Our thought leadership publications

The global tax environment is in a state of fast change. A shift to indirect taxes represents the global trend and combat tax evasion and VAT fraud a high priority. Driving indirect tax management therefore becomes more and more important. The key to success in the management is the ability to translate indirect tax knowledge into a workable business process.

Our aim is to share our expertise with you through the Global Indirect Tax Management website, to create and share current state benchmarking knowledge, to inspire and also challenge your department functions through offering modules that can be used to scope process gaps from an indirect tax perspective.

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Take aways 

We combine technical knowledge with industry understanding and knowhow of technologically advanced tools and methodologies available in the market or developed by ourselves.

  • Focus on tax processes that could be improved
    • Manual process: same data requests are made by different stakeholders
  • As Is assessment
  • Anticipate future changes and the data needed
    • What are tax trends?
    • What is happening locally and what should be considered across jurisdictions where you operate?
    • Anticipate new stakeholders and their data needs or requests (internal and external)
  • Define scope and actions for short, mid and long term
  • Write business case for change
  • Realize sponsorship for implementation
  • What tax data is requested and by whom?
  • What tax process can be improved and what can be automated?
    • CIT, VAT, tax data warehouse
  • What is the Return on Investment?
    • Hard saving: process improvement
    • Meeting (new) tax requirement
  • What systems are in use: SAP, Oracle, etc
    • By which entities?
  • How many end-use computing tools (e.g. excel spreadsheet) do we have?
  • How do we avoid an ad-hoc solution?
    • Understand the bigger picture
    • Real problem and not the symptom

Technology-related tax risk: understand and address the potential harms and benefits of (new) technology.

Ascertaining proper IT support for ensuring efficient, timely and reliable reporting.

VAT should be considered in every aspect of the process, from concept through completion and beyond. Managing by design — looking at any process or transaction from end to end and factoring in all the requirements and controls essential to designing and optimizing a compliant VAT process.

We speak the language of the business and IT and no translation is needed.

VAT should be considered in every aspect of the process, from concept through completion and beyond.

Looking at any process or transaction from end to end and factoring in all the requirements and controls essential to designing and optimizing a compliant VAT process.

The key to success in the management is the ability to translate tax knowledge into workable business processes.

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