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    VAT Trapped in the Cracks

    As value added tax (VAT) gains popularity among global jurisdictions, countries with long-established VAT systems confront a growing challenge: the so-called “VAT gap.” The phrase refers to the shortfall between expected revenue from the tax and the amount actually collected. Tax executives within multinational corporations (MNCs) ought to monitor how jurisdictions address this gap.
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    VAT Legislation Moves Forward in GCC States

    In January, the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf – also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – announced a formal agreement regarding a new value-added tax (VAT) to be adopted by GCC member countries which are Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
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    Global Tax Planning Risk: Brexit Challenges

    The outcome of the recent US Presidential election surprised many, and it is just one more in a string of recent drivers of global economic, legislative, and regulatory uncertainty. Brexit, EU State Aid investigations, and the OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Actions figure most prominently among these disruptions; each will significantly influence foreign direct investment, trade, banking, corporate taxation, and the exchange of tax information between jurisdictions.
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    Vertex and SAP Continue Their Successful Partnership

    A partnership is often referred to as a two-way street, alluding to the give-and-take dynamic of the parties involved. This dynamic of mutual understanding and collaboration, along with established objectives, result in the most effective partnerships. These attributes are demonstrated once again in the latest product and solution released from the two-decades-long partnership between Vertex and enterprise technology provider SAP.
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    How Cloud Technology Helps Retailers Achieve Omni-Channel Consistency

    “The retailers that will move ahead of the pack in the coming year are those that can deliver a consistent, clear, clean, simplified, and seamless message across all channels.” That assertion appeared in Deloitte LLP’s “Retail Industry Outlook” last year, and it remains highly relevant today.
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    Total Number of Annual U.S. Sales Tax Changes Tops 600 Again

    U.S. Sales tax changes are once again on the rise. This trend marks one of the key takeaways from Vertex’s annual Sales Tax Rate Study, which shows 612 sales and use tax rate changes in the U.S. for 2015.
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    Tax Transformation is Getting Faster and Easier (Really)

    Francis Bacon once said, “Time is the measure of business.” Bacon’s wise observation from nearly 400 years ago is complemented by some modern wisdom from MIT Sloan Research Scientist George Westerman that Gartner’s Paul Stokes recently tweeted (and I retweeted): CIO[s] must allocate their time not to where the budget is but to where the org is meant to be by shaping it to where it can be.
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    Cloud Technology Accelerates Time-to-Value

    As I’ve written previously, CIOs and other IT leaders are making progress on their journey toward a scenario where IT plays a central role in driving business strategy. Time-to-value (TtV) is a concept that is of interest to tax professionals who are progressing on their own journey to advance the role that tax plays in their companies, and marks an important milestone on this evolutionary path.
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    Retail Tax and E-Commerce: A Complex Plot Thickens

    A lot has changed since Vertex published our Retail Tax and E-Commerce: What You Need to Know white paper a few years ago. Some important tax challenges have remained exactly the same. What's different? The volume of online sales has increased in staggering fashion.
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    Cloud Insights, Part 1: Look to the Cloud for the Future of Tax

    Cloud computing “will be the default way of delivering technology in the future,” according to a recent Forbes column. While this prognostication may sound a tad exaggerated, there is plenty of evidence to support it, including this data point: 69 percent of organisations already use at least one cloud-based software application or use the cloud as part of their IT infrastructure, according to IDG research.

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