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Global Tax Management: An Overview and Key Considerations
What is Global Tax Management
Global tax management is the process by which tax managers evaluate the global taxability of an organization’s industry, corporate structure, business model, operations, products or services, business activities, and daily transactions.
To ensure global tax reporting requirements are met accurately and consistently by all subsidiaries across multiple tax jurisdictions, global tax management requires a holistic view of an organization’s entire flow of transactional data across its entire value chain.
Global tax management brings together disparate technologies from multiple vendors, such as SAP, Vertex, Sovos, Avalara, Thomson Reuters, and different currencies and various regulators, contributing to complexity across the tax function.
Global Tax Management: An Overview and Key Considerations
What is Global Tax Management
Global tax management is the process by which tax managers evaluate the global taxability of an organization’s industry, corporate structure, business model, operations, products or services, business activities, and daily transactions.
To ensure global tax reporting requirements are met accurately and consistently by all subsidiaries across multiple tax jurisdictions, global tax management requires a holistic view of an organization’s entire flow of transactional data across its entire value chain.
Global tax management brings together disparate technologies from multiple vendors, such as SAP, Vertex, Sovos, Avalara, Thomson Reuters, and different currencies and various regulators, contributing to complexity across the tax function.
For many organizations, global tax management typically involves these three steps:
- Define compliance needs worldwide across all operating units, lines of business, tax jurisdictions.
- Map businesss processes to govern how compliance should flow through the organization globally.
- Implement technology solutions that can accurately collect information and content updates from disparate sources in alignment with defined business processes to deliver master data and financial information asynchronously as required.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
Understand the growing complexity of global tax management. Organizations considering different areas of the world for new potential opportunities must be aware of how these business interests can affect the local country’s taxation. Changing legislation and mandates around global tax management is becoming ever more complex as organizations face growing challenges in evaluating how their growth initiatives may impact global tax liabilities.
Evaluate your content needs for effective global tax compliance. Tax managers need to consider what global activities may be taxed in which locations and ensure that they are meeting the tax requirements of each country accurately and promptly. Greater global tax compliance efficiency can help organizations reallocate accounting resources to support revenue-generating tax compliance opportunities.
Implement technology to simplify global tax management needs. The Ingram Micro and Dow Chemicals case studies provide best practices outlining how technology makes it possible to create a global view of the enterprise, enabling tax function managers responsible for global compliance, global reporting, and global controls. Content updates that provide real-time data on tax jurisdictions, tax rates, and tax content changes are critical for efficient global tax compliance.
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Growing Compliance Complexity Driving Approach to Tax Planning, Tax Technology and InnovationSep 22, 2023 — The global tax landscape has become increasingly complex, as governments around the world are changing the ways that they monitor companies and ensure compliance. SAP S/4HANA-enabled transformation has far-reaching impacts on tax departments, including Direct Tax, Indirect Tax, Transfer Pricing, and Trade & Customs. To explore the implications on tax planning, tax technology, and innovation, we sat down with Kelley Lear, Vice President of Partnerships and Alliances at Thomson Reuters and Sanford Fisher, Director of Tax Management Services at KPMG.
In this article, we will discuss the new challenges SAP organizations face due to increasing digital tax administration. This includes how governments worldwide are tightening regulations, implementing real-time auditing procedures, and enhancing their tax collection capabilities. Readers will also learn about how they can embrace holistic tax planning in the digital era. One key piece of this puzzle is leveraging the SAP S/4HANA for tax planning, as well as utilizing other advanced technologies that make it easier for companies to remain compliant.
With digital tax administration expanding globally, it is crucial for organizations to take a proactive approach to tax compliance and reporting. By embracing advanced tax technologies and adopting a holistic approach to tax planning, particularly during SAP S/4HANA migrations, organizations can position themselves for success. These strategic decisions not only align tax strategies with broader business goals but also ensure that tax considerations are integrated into every aspect of operations. This proactive stance reflects a shift from approaching tax compliance as a mere obligation to recognizing it as a crucial aspect of strategic business decisions.
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Next Generation E-Invoicing: Reducing Costs by Eliminating Operational Challenges and Increasing ScalabilitySep 21, 2023 — Changing your ERP system is a big undertaking but also an opportunity to update and align your e-invoicing strategy to meet global regulatory changes. In moving to SAP S/4HANA organizations are asking questions about how to reduce migration costs and complexity while preparing for upcoming EU proposals. Indirect tax compliance should be a key consideration when implementing SAP S/4HANA to help reduce complexity.
This session will discuss why indirect tax compliance should be a key consideration when implementing SAP S/4HANA to help reduce complexity. It will cover how to lower costs by including indirect tax compliance at the beginning of the move. Why implementing country mandates now will help prepare for upcoming EU Proposal outcomes. And the importance of partnering with a registered E-Invoice provider to stay compliant and efficiently process business transactions.
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Webinar: Global Tax Management 2023 – Benchmark ReportOct 4, 2023 — Last year's research on global tax management confirmed the importance of digital transformation in finance and tax functions, facilitated by initiatives such as SAP S/4HANA migration, automation, and AI/ML. This report explores how the priorities of SAPinsiders in various aspects of taxation and technology have evolved and how organizations have adapted their global tax management strategies in this ever-changing landscape.
As global tax regulations evolve rapidly, control and governance challenges have emerged as the foremost concern for businesses, with 51% identifying it as a significant pain point. This suggests an intensifying struggle to maintain compliance in a complex tax landscape. While more SAPinsider organizations plan to adopt third-party tax engines, consistent integration with ERP and other applications remains challenging, slowing utilization and posing difficulties for aligning tax management with broader business systems.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis from 128 members of the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your global tax management plans.
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Vertex Indirect Tax Determination Solution Earns SAP EndorsementJul 31, 2023 — In a press release, the tax experts at Vertex recently announced the Vertex Indirect Tax Determination solution has been named an SAP Endorsed App for the North America region. This solution provides a single tax engine that automates and centralizes sales and use taxes, as well as VAT.
In this article, we will highlight some of the features that Vertex offers through this solution, as well as the market forces regarding indirect tax that this solution helps address.
Indirect tax compliance can be time consuming. When tax teams have to manually ensure compliance, this limits their capacity to provide strategic value. By utilizing global tax engines, organizations can reduce manual tasks and enhance visibility into indirect tax determination workflows, thereby allowing for a more efficient use of resources.
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Solution Brief: Arco Tax Determination for SAP BTP Helps Streamline VAT ComplianceJul 28, 2023 — According to SAPinsider’s 2023 Global Tax Management benchmark report, 80% of these teams recognize the critical need for automated reconciliation of various indirect tax reports to strengthen their global tax management strategy. Additionally, 75% of organizations say they must enhance the accuracy of their real-time indirect tax determinations.
For businesses operating in Europe, automating these processes and ensuring accurate VAT determinations is the foundation of a robust global tax management strategy.
In this solution brief, SAPinsider analyst Ogo Nwanyanwu will highlight Arco Tax Determination for SAP BTP by Meridian Global VAT Services, an SAP Industry Cloud solution enabling automated tax determination on SAP S/4HANA.
When integrated with SAP systems, the Arco Tax Determination for SAP BTP is designed to provide an efficient, automated, and compliant solution for tax determination on complex VAT flows, addressing a critical pain point for SAPinsiders.
We will also discuss how integration into the SAP ecosystem is made easier, how the solution provides standardization through centralized control, and boosts functionality of standard SAP systems.
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Seven Key Benefits of Automating VAT DeterminationJul 25, 2023 — Automation is a key tool for tax teams to keep pace with their workloads while staying on top of shifting regulations. These challenges are magnified for companies that do business across multiple geographies with differing laws.
To take a look at the benefits of VAT determination automation, we reviewed a white paper from the tax experts at Meridian Global Services. The benefits associated with automating SAP VAT determination tend to fall into three categories – reducing costs, saving time, and improving processes.
In this article, we will highlight some of the benefits in each of these categories, as well as some of the key considerations that organizations must make when considering which solutions to implement.
Automation reduces costs in a number of different ways – it cuts down on overhead like training, administration, and IT staff. It can also reduce the costs of auditing. It also streamlines several key parts of the VAT determination process, saving time and effort from several parts of the company. This also frees up workers to spend their time on other value-add tasks. In addition to the time and money saved, automation also improves several key aspects of the VAT determination process within SAP.
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Avalara’s Guide to Avoiding Five Common Sales Tax Registration MistakesJul 19, 2023 — Sales tax can be burdensome for organizations of any size. Small businesses may face the largest struggle when it comes to sales tax registrations, as they likely do not have a taxation expert on their staff. Many small business owners who lack expertise are forced to comb through tax legislation to ensure they pay what they owe in each jurisdiction. Any errors in this process can lead to costly audits.
To help companies determine their correct sales tax registration, Avalara released a list of five common mistakes businesses commonly make when registering for sales taxes.
In this article, we will examine each of those mistakes and how to avoid them. Small businesses should always be cognizant of the different regulations in each state where they do business and stay up to date on filing registrations in new states. They should also deregister in states that they exit. Of course, one of the simplest ways to overcome these issues is to rely on an automated solution.
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Managing and Automating Payroll Tax DeterminationsJul 14, 2023 — Organizations of all sizes can struggle to keep up with the pace of change in the tax landscape. Federal, state, and local regulations are constantly in flux, and some teams may struggle to keep up. Compounding these issues, many enterprises still rely on manual tax processes. This can cause errors and take excessive amounts of time to execute.
More and more, tax teams are searching for a digital transformation of tax and finance through solutions like automation, AI, and machine learning.
For help, organizations often turn to third-party partners like BSI and their TaxProfileFactory solution. The product can help maintain employee tax profiles for federal, state, local, and territory taxes. It also creates these profiles on-demand to eliminate any future adjustments.
To demonstrate how TaxProfileFactory can help organizations with their payroll tax onboarding processes, BSI shared a recent customer success story that highlights how versatile the solution is.
In this article, we will highlight the unique challenges faced by BSI’s client and the solutions they used to address their issues.
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Global Tax Management 2023 – Benchmark ReportJun 30, 2023 — Last year's research on global tax management confirmed the importance of digital transformation in finance and tax functions, facilitated by initiatives such as SAP S/4HANA migration, automation, and AI/ML. This report explores how the priorities of SAPinsiders in various aspects of taxation and technology have evolved and how organizations have adapted their global tax management strategies in this ever-changing landscape.
As global tax regulations evolve rapidly, control and governance challenges have emerged as the foremost concern for businesses, with 51% identifying it as a significant pain point. This suggests an intensifying struggle to maintain compliance in a complex tax landscape. While more SAPinsider organizations plan to adopt third-party tax engines, consistent integration with ERP and other applications remains challenging, slowing utilization and posing difficulties for aligning tax management with broader business systems.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis from 128 members of the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your global tax management plans.
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Vertex’s Chain Flow Accelerator for Indirect Tax Receives SAP Certification for Integration with RISE with SAP S/4HANA CloudJun 30, 2023 — Vertex, a leading tax technology solutions provider, has received SAP certification for its Chain Flow Accelerator tool, which simplifies tax complexity. The tool has been integrated with RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, offering enhanced capabilities for transaction creation, configuration, and visualization to improve Value Added Tax (VAT) determination and efficiency.
The tool's application is particularly relevant in Europe, where tax management has become increasingly complex. Companies dealing with cross-border supply chains need to ensure consistent VAT treatment at every transaction stage, requiring continuous data management and configuration in their ERP systems. These tasks are typically manual, complex, and demand specialized tax expertise and IT support.
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