New research surveying 451 finance leaders across APAC shows how tax functions are shifting from periodic filing to continuous, strategic influence, and how quickly the window to catch up is…
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Canada-US tariffs are bilateral. Their commercial effects may not be.
For Asia-Pacific enterprises connected to North American customers, suppliers or production networks, the latest Canada–US tariff measures raise a more useful question than whether a tariff applies directly to their…
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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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How to master the tax provision process
Tax provision is changing. For Australian organisations, rising ATO scrutiny, global minimum tax requirements, and compressed close timelines are pushing tax teams to deliver accurate, defensible income tax accounting faster than ever. This article explores how better data governance, connected workflows and automation help tax teams move from reactive compliance to real time insight, and why zero day close is becoming the new benchmark.
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The Pillar Two Filing Landscape: Understanding Form Types and How to Stay on Top of Them
A practical guide to the categories of filing obligations that in-scope multinational groups are navigating, and how Pillar Two forms are kept up to date in the Orbitax.
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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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Country-by-country reporting is getting more public and more complicated — and the window to get ahead is closing
Country-by-country reporting (CbCR) has outgrown its compliance roots. With the EU’s public disclosure clock ticking and jurisdictions like Australia raising the bar on public tax transparency and jurisdiction level disclosure,…
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Five Actions Australian Multinationals Can Take Now to Prepare for Pillar Two
This infographic highlights five practical actions Australian multinationals can take now to prepare for Pillar Two, from assessing global exposure to strengthening data, governance and technology readiness.
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Managing Global Minimum Tax across data, reporting and risk
The OECD’s Pillar Two Global Minimum Tax is now in effect, creating new compliance and reporting obligations for Australian multinational groups. This whitepaper explains what Australian tax and finance leaders need to know: from ATO alignment and data requirements to building scalable processes that support ongoing Pillar Two compliance.
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