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Tax compliance in SAP is no longer just an IT decision. It’s a strategic risk decision.
As governments shift to real-time, transaction-level enforcement, SAP customers are being forced to rethink how tax compliance fits into their S/4HANA, Clean Core, and data governance strategies.
Many organizations are evaluating ERP-native approaches, while others are expanding their capabilities to account for authority-led, end-to-end compliance models designed to keep pace with continuous mandates. Each path comes with tradeoffs in cost, risk, scalability, and long-term agility.
In this session, Sovos tax and SAP experts explore how SAP customers should think about this decision, not from a product perspective, but from an enterprise architecture, risk, and operating model standpoint.
You’ll learn:
- Why tax compliance is shifting from an internal ERP function to an externally enforced, authority-led model
- What SAP customers should consider when using ERP-native tools for digital reporting and mandates, and what capabilities to enhance and complement those tools
- The hidden complexity behind e-invoicing, SAF-T, and continuous transaction controls
- How Clean Core principles intersect with tax data, controls, and audit exposure
- Key questions IT, Finance, and Tax leaders should be asking before choosing a compliance path
- How today’s compliance decisions can impact transformation risk for years to come
This session is designed for IT and ERP leaders, Finance and Tax executives, SAP CoE and Clean Core program owners, and enterprise architects responsible for compliance strategy, and is especially relevant for organizations preparing for the 2026–2027 regulatory expansion or actively navigating an S/4HANA
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SAPinsider Research Findings Webinar: Global Tax Management Trends, Challenges, and Priorities for 2026 and BeyondThursday August 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM ET Global tax leaders are navigating an unprecedented convergence of challenges. SAPinsider’s 2026 Global Tax Management Benchmark Research reveals that AI adoption, expanding e-invoicing mandates, regulatory volatility, and supply chain shifts are fundamentally reshaping tax operations. While organizations are increasing investments in automation, AI, tax engines, and data […]
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Global Tax Management – Benchmark Research Report 2026Global tax functions are at an inflection point. Between February and June 2026, SAPinsider surveyed its community of tax and finance professionals — including technology, finance, tax, and C-level leaders — to understand how they are navigating the most complex compliance environment in a generation. The findings are clear: AI adoption (42%), e-invoicing and real-time reporting mandates (35%), and regulatory and tariff volatility are reshaping the 2026–2028 tax agenda faster than most organizations can absorb with their current tools and architectures. Tax leaders know the operating models of the last decade won't be adequate for the next one, and they are responding by prioritizing automation, standardization, and data governance before chasing the next wave of AI.
But the most actionable finding in this report is the expectations gap — the striking distance between what tax automation and AI were expected to deliver and what has actually been realized. While 43% of organizations expected automation to deliver faster close and reporting cycles, just 6% achieved it; 36% expected better visibility into tax positions, yet only 11% saw it. This report diagnoses why the gap exists, where SAP-centric architectures are winning, and what separates the organizations realizing outcomes from those simply accumulating tools. Download the full benchmark to compare your strategy against your peers and build the foundation that closes the gap.
What you'll learn:
- The seven forces shaping the 2026–2028 tax agenda — and why AI adoption now outranks any single regulation
- Where the expectations gap is widest across close cycles, audit response, visibility, and accuracy
- The strategic priorities tax leaders are funding first: automation, process standardization, and master data remediation
- Which SAP solutions and third-party tax engines (Vertex, ONESOURCE, Sovos, Edicom) are in scope for the next 24 months
- The real state of AI in tax — high evaluation rates, low production deployment, and where the fast-follow use cases are
- The performance metrics that actually win budget: on-time filing, accuracy, and audit defensibility — not headcount reduction
- How leading teams treat tax transformation as an operating-model change, not a technology purchase
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