Following insights from a recent webinar, Mark Oh explores how indirect tax compliance is rapidly shifting toward real-time reporting—driven by increasing regulatory scrutiny—and why organisations must embed AI into transaction workflows to detect, manage, and resolve issues earlier in the lifecycle. By moving beyond traditional, end-of-period processes, tax and finance teams can strengthen data accuracy, reduce compliance risk, and stay audit-ready in an always-on reporting environment.
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Touchless compliance: what it is and why it matters for indirect tax
Touchless compliance represents the next evolution of indirect tax automation, using agentic AI to autonomously manage workflows, detect anomalies, and maintain real-time visibility. By reducing manual effort and shifting teams to exception-based review, it enables greater accuracy, scalability, and strategic focus without increasing headcount.
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9 Australian indirect tax filing challenges tech can help solve
Indirect tax compliance in Australia is becoming more complex, with rising ATO scrutiny and increasingly strict expectations under programs like Justified Trust. Many tax teams still rely on manual processes that create risk, inefficiency, and limited audit visibility. This article outlines nine common challenges and how technology can help teams move toward consistent, audit-ready GST compliance.
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Australia’s 2026-27 Federal Budget: Implications for CFOs and tax leaders
This Budget reshapes Australia’s corporate tax landscape. Alongside headline reforms to CGT and trusts, businesses get new opportunities through loss carry‑back, a permanent instant asset write‑off and expanded R&D incentives—if they act early.
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Global Minimum Tax and the data management dilemma
The OECD’s global minimum tax is transforming international tax compliance, but it’s also exposing serious data gaps for multinational organisations. This article explores why Pillar Two dramatically increases data complexity and why tax and finance teams need more connected, reliable data models to manage risk and reporting obligations.
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Climate disclosure in Australia: A practical guide for finance and reporting teams
Australia’s mandatory climate disclosure regime requires finance‑grade reporting, not ESG commentary. This whitepaper shows how finance teams are integrating climate disclosures into the statutory close, with the controls, evidence, and workflows needed for audit readiness.
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Becoming a strategic partner: Elevating the tax function’s role
Corporate tax departments are no longer defined solely by compliance. Leading tax functions are repositioning themselves as strategic partners, embedding commercial insight, technology and cross‑functional collaboration into business‑critical decisions.
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The hidden cost of doing more with less: Managing under-resourced tax departments
For Australian tax teams, rising regulatory complexity and limited capacity often turn urgent compliance into a permanent operating mode. This article explores the hidden costs of under‑resourcing, from penalties to burnout, and outlines practical steps tax leaders can take to move from reactive work to proactive, prevention‑led performance.
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Tax changes: A strategic look ahead at 2026 for corporate tax departments
Resource pressure, regulatory change and new technology are reshaping corporate tax functions. With significant tax reforms taking effect from 2026, Australian tax leaders must plan early to manage risk, optimise outcomes and build future‑ready capability.
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2025 State of the Corporate Tax Department
Corporate tax departments are being asked to do more with less as regulatory complexity rises, talent remains scarce and expectations shift. The 2025 State of the Corporate Tax Department explores how tax leaders are responding, and where smarter resourcing, technology and new ways of working are making a difference.
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