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Tax Technology & Data Analytics

Enabling the Tax Function of the future

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Tax Disruption

Are you ready for the digital world of tax?

Tax Technology Webcast Series

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Beyond Excel

Why risk spreadsheets in a world of integrated tax technology?

Going digital?

Today’s tax environment is often strangely disconnected: On the one hand, tax specialists use smart phones, social media and ERP systems both privately and professionally. On the other hand, most tax functions still rely heavily on Excel spreadsheets. Highly skilled tax specialists spend half their time or more with manual data cleansing, aggregation and manipulation.

PwC predicts that in the near future, the majority of tax functions will rely on professional data analysis tools to assist in the decision-making process in areas such as risk detection, planning and overall business support.

Our expertise

We help our clients with efficient technology solutions to reduce cost and help transform their tax functions into modern efficient business enablers. We are extremely familiar with both tax and technology and can serve as your one-stop-shop for everything related to tax technology.

  1. Set-up for Tax Technology
  2. Development & implementation of software
  3. Analytics & usage of tools
  4. Optimisation of technological environment
  5. Tax Strategy
  6. Tax Control Framework
  7. Tax Risk Management
  8. Tax Transparency

Set-up for Tax Technology

Many tax functions find it difficult to define the right technology strategy. Likewise, they lack often an overview of the tax technology available today.

How we can help

  • Preparation and review of strategy, policies, manuals and guidelines
  • PwC market intelligence on vendors active in the market and their solutions
  • Reviewing business need
  • Organising and supporting selection process
  • Assistance with selection criteria

Development & implementation of software

Tax technology tends to be slightly more complicated than an office suite – its implementation typically requires some level of customisation, even if you go for a “standard solution”.

How we can help

  • Building of business case
  • Implementation of standard tax technology solutions
  • Design, prototyping and programming of custom solutions
  • Connectivity between different systems, e.g. tax and accounting
  • Testing and validation
  • User support
  • Consulting regarding legal aspects, such as data privacy legislation

Analytics & usage of tools

On the one side, analytics enables you to understand whether your data reflects your business correctly – in real time. On the other side, it is about staying ahead – understanding your data at least as well as the authorities.

How we can help

  • Support in data extraction
  • Improvement of data consistency and efficiency
  • Mapping of processes
  • Reconciliation of data in various system
  • Identification of trends and patterns
  • Super- and end-user training
  • Preparation and review of documentation

Optimisation of technological environment

Like any piece of technology, over its useful life, tax technology requires optimisation and maintenance.

How we can help

  • Speed, precision and cost optimisation
  • Review and audit of:
  • Tax processes, e.g. the compliance cycle from tax provisioning to tax return filing
  • Tax-related systems, e.g. evaluation of input VAT deduction calculation software
  • E-invoicing and e-archiving systems
  • System migrations

Tax Strategy

The fundamentals balancing the myriad of tasks in the Tax Function should take into account your risk appetite, what are the focus areas and signed off by the Board.

How we can help

  • Support on review or definition of a Tax Strategy and Tax Policies (e.g. roles and responsibilities within in the Tax Function)
  • Support in the communication of taxes in general and specially on Tax Strategy with Board/Senior Management
  • Analyse whatever perception or substantive gaps exist between stated core values and overall tax strategy and disclosures
  • Check consistency between communication strategies, e.g. if the business is publishing their sustainability strategy, we help them understand how it could impact their tax strategy
  • Assistance with definition of a business case to transform the Tax Function

Tax Control Framework

Companies want to know or achieve their desired levels of maturity but struggle in the implementation for achieving desired state or communicating this to key stakeholders of the tax function.

How we can help

  • Maturity assessment of the Tax Function (Tax Maturity Management Model – T3M)
  • Structuring the Tax Function
  • Review, design and amendment of the Group’s Tax Control Framework
  • Implementation of the Group’s Tax Control Framework

Tax Risk Management

Businesses have no clear or a well established Tax Risk Management Framework. Therefore identifying where do key tax exposures are or might arise, how to address and monitor them and how to develop a response is still a challenge.

How we can help

  • Enhancement to better deliver the agreed tax strategy, ensuring that processes and controls enable tax risks to be managed.
  • Review or definition of questionnaires
  • Review of risk assessment
  • Support in the collection and presentation of risk inventory (TRaC Tool)
  • Documentation of tax risks and tax risk management process

Tax Transparency

Public debate and scrutiny of tax is often misinformed and exclusively focused on corporation tax. It is necessary now more than ever to raise awareness of other taxes, such as industry-specific taxes and other contributions made to the public finances.

How we can help:

  • Support on the quantification on the totality of taxes paid and collected, including wider economic footprint, under the PwC Total Tax Contribution methodology.
  • Tax Transparency and Effective Tax Rate Benchmarking
  • Total Impact Measurement and Management (TIMM)
  • Crosscountry study with TTC Modelling
  • Tax Rulings Exchange support

Our tax technology products

Transform your tax control and risk management processes to stay on top of the developing regulatory requirements with our three software products including a process management tool, a lean tax risk management tool and a web-based questionnaire.

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Smart Tax Suite

Transform your tax control and risk management processes with Smart Tax Suite.

PwC’s Advanced Data Analytics makes sure you know about irregularities in your data before the tax authorities do. With this tool you are aware, compliant and in control of your data.

Find out how

Tax Advanced Data Analytics

Stay aware, compliant and in control of your data.

Smart VAT

With this online platform you can register for Swiss VAT and appoint PwC as your fiscal representative.

Online Corporate Tax Returns

Profit from our digital platform, automated processes and proven expertise on tax issues for legal entities.

Step-up Calculator

Discover the disclosure potential of your business and how much tax you could save as a result.

Customs Classification Service

A new AI based tool to help importers and exporters classify goods for customs more effectively.

Qlik

Being an elite partner for Qlik, PwC offers more than just a BI tool

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By Your Side

We know and understand your requirements as well as the market. This way, we can enable your tax function to go truly digital, giving you the edge over your competitors. We stay close to you, advicing you every step of the way.

 

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Single Point of Contact

One of our advisors will become your single point of contact. This advisor will manage all aspects of project delivery or coordinate the different parts of the service. This ensures you always deal with someone who has intimate knowledge of your business.

 

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Experienced Professionals

Our multi-disciplinary teams have a wide range of experience. The backgrounds of the team members in tax and technology provide fresh insight and ensure that we approach challenges from all possible angles.

 

Contact

Want to discuss Tax Technology with us?

Let one of our experts contact you!

Our blog series

Using the right tax technology tools enables you to reduce costs and transform your tax function into modern, efficient business enablers.
Learn more about how you can improve your tax function through our blog.

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Contact us

Christoph Schärer

Christoph Schärer

Tax and Legal Innovation, Transformation & Disruption Leader, PwC Switzerland

Tel: +41 58 792 42 82

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Jochen Richner

Jochen Richner

Director, Tax Technology Leader, PwC Switzerland

Tel: +41 58 792 57 55

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