Indirect Tax Solutions for Europe

European businesses are continuously challenged to stay compliant for VAT. Our solutions work to reduce risk and support compliance in the end-to-end VAT process.

Automated Tax Compliance Solutions

Our enterprise solutions automate VAT determination and tax compliance — helping to eliminate manual processes, improve accuracy, and give the tax department the agility to support growth across Europe, and around the world.

Improve VAT Determination and Compliance

Leverage automated, enterprise tax solutions to manage the growing complexity of VAT across Europe. Integrate a single tax determination engine across your ERPs and financial systems for improved VAT accuracy and centralised visibility. Confidently manage compliance as your business grows and jurisdiction requirements change.

Reduce Manual Effort

No more manual tax research & ERP updates. Automate tax determination with continually updated content. Improve the latest compliance requirements and reporting even as jurisdictions introduce new regimes.

Automate Tax Content

Our in-country research teams retrieve the latest tax rules and rates for global VAT/GST as well as U.S. sales tax. Continually updated tax compliance content keeps you up to date with the latest forms and filing requirements.

Improve Audit Performance

More accurate determination of VAT and U.S. sales tax, even on the most complex transactions, improves VAT/GST and sales tax compliance accuracy for better audit performance.

Take a Global Approach to Tax

Approach indirect tax holistically with integrated solutions for determination, compliance, and reporting. We offer solutions for jurisdictions throughout Europe, the U.S., and around the world.

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Alliances

Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions across 120+ countries in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. Our alliance with Accenture supports its work to help clients improve performance and create sustainable value for stakeholders.
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Accounting & Consulting Firm

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North America, Europe, Global
Deloitte

Our strategic alliance with Deloitte delivers best-in-class global tax technology and services to businesses across the world. Deloitte's expertise coupled with our leading technology can support businesses as they uncover new challenges and opportunities.
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Accounting & Consulting Firm

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North America, Europe, Global
KPMG LLP

The combination of KPMG LLP's global indirect tax experience with our technology provides you with a tested solution for your indirect tax needs. For 15+ years, KPMG's Transaction Tax Services team has delivered successful Vertex implementations when an indirect tax automation solution is required.
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Accounting & Consulting Firm

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North America, Europe
PwC LLP

Our strategic alliance with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC US) leverages the synergies between our industry-leading corporate tax and data management solutions with PwC’s tax reporting and strategy consulting services.
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Accounting & Consulting Firm

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North America, Europe, Global

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Technology Partners

Magento

We are a Premier Technology Partner with Magento, delivering best-in-class sales and use tax solutions for Magento Enterprise Edition and Magento Community Edition.
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Technology Provider

Location

North America, Europe
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- Magento Commerce
- Magento Open Source
Oracle

Partners for over 25 years, we have over 1,500 mutual customers with Oracle and a common goal to help companies of any size grow their business and reduce risk. We work closely to provide our mutual customers with solutions to stay compliant and simplify even the most complex tax.
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North America, Europe, Global
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Salesforce

We are a proud ISV partner of Salesforce, the world's #1 CRM platform used by over 150,000 companies to help grow business and strengthen customer relationships. Our partnership delivers a powerful connector that enables tax calculations for your Salesforce platforms.
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Technology Provider

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Manufacturing, Technology, Retail, Communication

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North America, Europe
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SAP

Our partnership spans over 25+ years and enables companies using SAP platforms to enable more accurate and consistent taxation around the world.
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North America, Europe, Global
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Zuora

Zuora Central is the world’s only subscription order-to-revenue platform that simplifies how to manage ongoing subscriber relationships and keep up with rapidly-changing go-to-market strategies. Subscription companies must also leverage proper tax calculation during the order process. This is where Vertex comes into play. One call to Vertex using the Tax API ensures accurate rates and rules applied to all orders — globally.
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Technology

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North America, Europe, Global
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- Zuora Billing

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VAT Compliance Software

Automate VAT reporting across Europe and around the world to support your global business as you manage indirect tax compliance.

Automate VAT Reporting Process

Leverage automation to prepare and submit VAT/GST filings. Improve accuracy, reduce manual process errors, and improve data quality in your VAT/GST reporting.

Improve Transparency

We provide enhanced visibility to improve indirect tax performance. Drill-through to transaction-level data and access audit event logs and detailed archives for indirect tax compliance.

Flexible, Easy-to-Use Software

Automatically import transaction data from virtually any source and leverage Vertex to map your data directly to your returns. Run reports to streamline audit defense.

Scalability to Support Business Growth

Grow confidently with continuously updated VAT content for jurisdictions around the world. Our up-to-date VAT content enables businesses to employ a centralised global strategy for VAT reporting, and provides the agility to support changing processes and business growth into new markets.

Improve Audit Performance

More accurate determination of VAT and U.S. sales tax, even on the most complex transactions, which improves indirect tax compliance accuracy for better audit performance.

Take a Global Approach to Tax

Approach indirect tax holistically with integrated solutions for determination, compliance, and reporting for jurisdictions throughout Europe, the U.S., and around the world.

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VAT Determination Solution

Add the Vertex tax engine to your ERP, e-commerce, procurement, and billing systems globally to improve accuracy and maintain centralised control over VAT determination. Our tax engine sits outside your ERP, making it is easy to scale and requiring minimal maintenance from your own IT department.

Improve indirect tax accuracy and provide the confidence you need to support global VAT/GST determination and compliance. Robust connectors to SAP, Oracle, and most other ERP, e-commerce, procurement, and billing systems streamline indirect tax management even as your business grows, expands, or changes its processes.

Reduce Audit Risk

Our tax engines for VAT determination perform automated and accurate indirect tax calculations with little to no human intervention to reduce risk and improve audit performance. Your tax calculations are backed-up with continuously updated tax content by our in-country or regional research teams, keeping our engines' VAT/GST data and rules up-to-date.

Boost Efficiency

No need for time-consuming VAT determination research and IT support to update indirect tax rates and rules across all your ERP and billing systems. Our tax engines are kept up-to-date so you can deploy your limited tax, finance, and IT resources for your more value-adding, core activities.

Choose Your Deployment Method

Select a deployment option that is best for your business. Install and run your tax engine on-premise or leverage a SaaS (software as a service) solution for faster start-up and reduced IT intervention.

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A Solution for VAT Data Quality

Preparing indirect tax reports is time-consuming and includes managing data quality risks. Bad or incomplete data can result in non-compliance, large penalties, unrealised tax benefits, and rework.

Automate your data validation, analysis, and transformation steps prior to the VAT reporting process.

Leverage a cloud-based, multi-tenant, tax-specific solution for the data validation, analysis, and transformation steps required for a company to properly support the indirect tax reporting process.

Features & Benefits

Vertex Cloud Data Integrity increases VAT return data quality so that companies can reduce their audit risk and increase tax staff efficiency.

Have more confidence with VAT compliance

Provides VAT validation capabilities comparable to your tax inspector, delivering increased VAT return data quality, reduced audit risk, and increased tax staff efficiency.

Increase data accuracy

Delivers powerful, automated, rule-based capabilities (pre-defined rules and ability to create custom rules) to simplify the analysis, review, and correction of all the data required to properly support the indirect tax compliance process and reduce audit risk and penalties.

Provide an audit trail for data repairs

Increases the ability to document what changes were made to transactions and why, through an audit log, providing full transparency and minimises time required to get backup information for specific transactions.

Lower audit exposure and risk of penalties

Minimises risk and exposure through the automation and standardisation of data validation and corrections and provides an audit log that documents all comments and changes for audit protection.

Empower tax staff

Enables staff to confidently manage tax data, with sophisticated validation, enrichment, and transformation capabilities, through a modern, simple UI designed for tax professionals.

Increase staff efficiency

Minimises the time required by tax staff to validate completeness of all required tax data, through an automated rule-based approach.

Reduce recurring master data errors

Minimises the time required to check data for transaction entry errors and increases the ability to check and track that corrections have been made to the ERP or other transactional source systems, eliminating recurring errors.

Maximise business agility

Supports your business as it grows, through a cloud-based, scalable solution.

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SAP S/4HANA Indirect Tax Integration

If you are implementing or migrating to SAP S/4HANA: are you ready for the future?

The move to SAP S/4HANA is the perfect opportunity for the tax function to finally regain control and transform the indirect tax operations by implementing a tax automation engine. In order to gain the full benefits of SAP S/4HANA, change is required for your set-up and for the way you used SAP before.

Does your VAT solution still fit, or does it need to be rebuilt? If you rebuild, do you have your original team of SAP specialists or will you need to explain the rules again?

Why can't VAT be handled in SAP?

There are key reasons why value added tax cannot be handled properly in SAP alone:

Generic VAT solutions within SAP are not sustainable
SAP does not have one standard solution to serve all possible permutations
Each customer’s SAP system, set-up, and business scenarios are unique
No generic third-party VAT solution within SAP can be sustained for multiple customers
Each customer has a unique version of the VAT solution, so maintenance and coding are complex

What are the considerations when moving to SAP S/4HANA?

You may start to uncover extra steps and costs that were not apparent at the beginning. Here are some hidden costs and things to consider in addition to the SAP implementation costs:

VAT determination when using multiple financial platforms such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, e-commerce systems, SAP Concur, etc. – given that each will have its own VAT logic
Acquiring multiple ERPs from M & A – these systems will have their own VAT logic
Building VAT solutions in each system increases risk of non-compliance
Maintaining each system can be time consuming, resource intensive, and expensive

What if you are still using SAP ECC?

You can leverage Vertex to improve VAT determination today and streamline your migration to SAP S/4HANA in the future.

Vertex has enabled the SAP API connection between SAP ECC and the SAP localisation hub
You can get the benefits of a Vertex tax engine by connecting your SAP system using a trustworthy connector
There is no need to redesign your VAT processes when you migrate as the work will have been already done upfront

Why You Need the Vertex Tax Engine

The Vertex tax engine connects to almost any platform that generates a VAT relevant transaction. It connects multiple ERPs and financial systems for consistency in VAT determination across your business.

Benefits of the Vertex Tax Engine

With Vertex, you can confidently manage the complexity of VAT across Europe and overall compliance as your business grows and jurisdiction requirements change, enabling you to be ready for the future.

Improved accuracy of VAT/GST determination
Up to date tax content
Reduced IT support needs
Improved tax department efficiency
Improved audit performance
Improved scalability

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E-Commerce and Tax: The Importance of Understanding Today’s Online Tax Landscape

E-Commerce has changed the global market. Online shopping has boomed and the rise of e-commerce is providing exciting growth opportunities for hundreds and thousands of companies.

With that comes a level of complexity when trading cross-border, which some companies may not be aware of. Now more than ever, it is key that businesses pay the correct sales tax and value added tax (VAT). They also need to be aware of the tax regulations and policies they must adhere to. That means that every new border represents risk, cost, and process overhead – as well as opportunity.

Recently, there has been additional complexity around tax and tariffs. The recent events of Wayfair and Brexit impact changes in tax compliance, which is significant and can’t be ignored. From a commercial perspective, how do you overcome them, reduce risk, and prepare for the new ‘business as usual’?

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A Tax Solution for Your E-Commerce Business

Failing to pay the correct sales tax and VAT, or not adhering to country-specific tax regulations and policies ultimately puts your business at risk for audit penalties. With the right solution in place, retailers can turn challenge into opportunity and unlock their growth potential.

Complex global tax framework

Countries have varying tax rules and regulations, some more complex than others. There are also different rates for each jurisdiction merchants operate in, and these are constantly changing. In addition, product taxability rates are different – in the US this may also differ in each state. Tax exemptions on both products and customers must also be considered.

Legislation changes

As with Wayfair in the U.S., businesses complying with VAT systems are increasingly required to impose destination tax rates for sales to consumers in foreign countries. In 2021, The European Union is introducing a VAT eCommerce Package that will require e-commerce goods vendors to charge the VAT of the consumer’s country and permit the vendor to account for that VAT in the EU country where they are established.

Cross-Border Commerce: Remaining compliant no matter where you trade

Relying on manual research to address the increasingly complex tax regulations is difficult and can lead to calculation errors, which can mean customers are charged the incorrect tax rates or discrepancies in the amount files back to the authorities. Ensuring that taxes are correctly calculated and reported to remain compliant will reduce the risk of fines during the audit process.

Lack of resources or skills

Managing tax for an e-commerce business requires resources dedicated to constant tax research and system updates for all jurisdictions where you do business today and where you plan to expand tomorrow. Do you have the time and skills?

We help global e-commerce businesses manage the complexities of tax with confidence. We do this by providing powerful tax solutions that automatically calculate the correct tax on each transaction and help generate reports globally to help improve tax accuracy, reduce risk, and enable business growth.

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