Tax management

Embedding tax in your business processes paves the way to strategic tax management and automated compliance worldwide.
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Automated compliance helps lower the burden of tax management

With SAP tax management solutions, you can automate your processes to improve compliance efficiency and transparency, optimize tax strategies, and keep up with evolving requirements.

Minimizing the risk of noncompliance

Maintain compliance with real-time insights into your status, mitigated risks, and high-quality tax data within the system of record itself. You can run regulatory relief as a service to keep up with legal changes, address new requirements for continuous transaction controls, and fulfill digital mandates for electronic invoices, statutory tax reporting, and system-based audits beyond single transactions.

Lowering compliance costs with automation

Standardize tax compliance processes to scale operations globally, minimize risk, and fulfill tax obligations with less effort. You can boost tax management efficiency by eliminating workarounds and offline data reconciliations or manipulations, increasing transparency for tax audits, and automating compliance tasks with artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Optimizing decisions for better tax outcomes

Create a foundation to explore new business models and foster trust with local communities and tax authorities. With a tax-sensitized source of truth, you can analyze tax burdens and make strategic tax management a part of your business decisions. This approach improves transparency and auditability, automates calculations, and facilitates decisions based on multiple scenario simulations.

Explore tax management solutions from SAP

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Holistic dashboard, from e-documents to reporting

Gain real-time insights through a centralized dashboard, so you can handle corrections and tasks accurately and quickly.

Automated e-documents and smooth corrections

Automate the transmission, digital clearance, and reconciliation of company transactions based on Peppol and local standards.

Digitized reporting, from preparation to submission

Manage and submit obligations electronically worldwide with a compliance calendar, from e-invoices to statutory reporting.

Extensibility platform to extend and create scenarios

Create and extend scenarios in a few steps to promptly respond to emerging needs while eliminating technical debt.

SAP Document and Reporting Compliance 
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Company-wide repository for tax compliance

Create, optimize, and manage your compliance checks – from value-added taxes to custom duties, and beyond.

Centralized platform for remediation activities

Streamline comprehensive remediation with one platform and facilitate tasks orchestration through an automated workflow.

Machine learning automation

Improve efficiency across simple prioritization of check failures, decision-making recommendations, and automated correction.

Systematic check of tax-relevant data

Gain reliable compliance insights by screening tax-relevant transactions in nearly real time and without ad hoc spot checks.

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Tailored intelligence for plastic packaging taxes

Calculate and pay taxes while understanding performance and focus areas against voluntary commitments and corporate goals.

Monitor and manage regulations centrally

Manage global reporting for extended producer responsibility (EPR) mandates, plastic packaging taxes, and public commitments.

Mitigate regulatory risks across global markets

Analyze the environmental impact of your material choices to reduce the burden of compliance.

Future-proof against emerging requirements

Comply seamlessly as plastic packaging taxes continue to increase worldwide.

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Flexible modeling for automated calculations

Calculate income tax and tax differences, make traceable adjustments, and automate operational transfer pricing, and more.

Actionable insights

Enhance tax strategies with insight into factors such as operating margins, transfer pricing adjustments, and price impacts.

Optimized decisions through scenario simulations

Drive better business outcomes by simulating tax impacts for different scenarios and making the most tax-efficient choices.

Increased transparency and auditability

Set a comprehensive and auditable tax management system, including BEPS 2.0 reporting, with traceability to accounting data.

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP

Standardizing operations across global markets

See how telecommunication provider Vodafone handles the complexity of operating in global markets with integrated and automated tax compliance processes.

Increasing process consistency and efficiency

Explore how chemical and consumer goods company Henkel reimagines processes, prepares for challenges, and reduces costs with document compliance.

Unifying and scaling a digital invoicing framework

Learn how travel services provider SEERA streamlined and automated invoicing processes to enable secure, highly efficient, and compliant e-invoicing.

Lowering compliance costs with automation

Check out how technology conglomerate Siemens manages and complies with international tax requirements with greater ease and confidence.

Resources

White Paper

Managing global minimum tax requirements with the latest technology

Read insights from EY and SAP about the role of business applications when responding to global minimum tax requirements, such as BEPS 2.0 and Pillar Two.

Thought Leadership Paper

Tax transformation with cloud ERP

Learn from SAP and Deloitte on how to support evolving business needs and tax regulations with the latest solutions and operational capabilities of cloud ERP.

Thought Leadership Paper

Benefits of shared service centers for indirect tax

Enhance global tax compliance by fulfilling proliferating indirect tax obligations with a smart organizational structure.

White Paper

Local and global success with localized software

Scale business processes globally while meeting business and country-specific tax requirements.