Businesses are under growing pressure to stay compliant with complex requirements and changes, as increasing numbers of tax authorities around the world introduce new reporting obligations. The introduction of transaction-level reporting makes this even more challenging, limiting the ability and the time to manually interact with data before submission to governments.

Digitalising the indirect tax life cycle enables firms to streamline, capture tax-ready information more efficiently and give control over global transactions enabling you to future-proof your organisation.

Attend this panel discussion to hear indirect tax experts from Thomson Reuters and leading multinational organisations discuss the considerations and practical steps you need to take when embarking on the journey to digitalise the indirect tax life cycle.

Key takeaways include:

·         Understanding the accelerated need and benefit of digitalisation, across tax and compliance to reduce risk, cost, and exposure

·         Step-by-step guide to developing a digital strategy for tax and ERP systems

·         How to build a business case to ensure your tax department gets a seat at the leadership table

·         Implementation experiences and practical steps

Corporate Panelists

With more than 20 years’ experience in the Finance and Tax Technology space, Ana is currently leading the Global Tax Technology at Nestlé ensuring the current applications are in line with the current compliance and legal requirements and, at the same time, driving the digitisation agenda to enable the vision and strategy of the Tax Function.

Ioan is currently the Global Indirect Tax Manager in Goodyear, while also retaining some regional direct tax responsibilities. He is a well-rounded tax professional with more than 17 years of comprehensive experience in both direct and indirect taxes. He spent the first 8 years of his career in EY and then PwC.

Gorka Echevarria, the Global VAT Lead at Lexmark, is based in Geneva, Switzerland. He was previously the EMEA VAT Manager at DXC Technology and prior to that the Global Supply Tax manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He has been TEI´s EMEA Indirect Tax Committee chair for the period 2017- 2018. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International VAT Monitor.

Peter is leading Thomson Reuter’s Global content operations for ONESOURCE Corporate tax, Indirect Compliance and Statutory Reporting products outside of the US. He leads a multinational team of over 90 tax and accounting professionals, who design, build and support content for TR’s market leading platforms, focused on the needs of large accounting firms and multinational corporations.

Jason has over 20 years of IT experience with 10 years as a global ERP and indirect tax subject matter expert. He has extensive experience leveraging innovative methods and industry-leading tools to improve the efficiency and quality of tax strategies, program functionalities, and product features. In his current role, he ensures that all indirect taxes are calculated and reported correctly to Finance and various tax authorities. 

Ingeborg has 15+ years’ experience in VAT and Tax technology, starting off in VAT Advisory for 8 years, first with EY and after that with KPMG Meijburg. During her time at EY, she also followed the (Post Master) EFS European Indirect Taxes (Erasmus University). Her current large projects: change of business model & supply chain for multiple businesses in Cargill EMEA, creation of a Data Warehouse reporting tool for VAT compliance globally and the global implementation of VAT Compliance Software.