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Financial transformation for the tax
function leveraging SAP S/4HANA
Per Evers, Jon H Rosseland, Andreas Sturesson – Deloitte Tax Management Consulting
Financial transformation for the tax function leveraging SAP S/4HANA - Per Evers, Jon H Rosseland, Andreas Sturesson - Deloitte Tax Management ...
SAF-T, e-reporting and alike
Global overview

SAF-T               Other E-REPORTING
                                                   Mandatory but only submitted upon   Mandatory and submitted on a periodic   Optional
Austria             Angola: monthly
                                                   request by the tax authorities      basis, i.e. monthly, quarterly, other
Germany             Argentina: monthly
Lithuania           Brazil: monthly
Luxembourg          China: monthly
Netherlands         Colombia: annually
Norway              Czech Republic: monthly
Poland: monthly     France
Portugal: monthly   Hungary: real-time
                    Mexico: monthly
                    Paraguay: monthly
                    Peru: monthly
                    Singapore
                    Slovakia: monthly
                    Slovenia
                    Spain: near real-time
                    Turkey: monthly
                    United Kingdom: periodically
Financial transformation for the tax function leveraging SAP S/4HANA - Per Evers, Jon H Rosseland, Andreas Sturesson - Deloitte Tax Management ...
e-invoice will be obligatory for B2G transactions starting from 1 January 2021, and cashless transactions (generally B2B transactions) starting from 1 July 2021.

Electronic reporting
What does the future hold?

                               Uganda                                                                                            China
 Egypt                         Implementation of e-     Egypt                                                                    Introduction of
                               receipts and e-          Mandatory e-invoicing                                                    mandatory e-
 Mandatory e-
                               invoicing from January   for certain companies                                                    Fapiao in China by
 invoicing for large
                                                        as from May 15th                                                         2022
 taxpayers as from
 November 15, 2020                                      (Phase 3)
 (Phase 1)
                                                                                                                                                            Vietnam               France
                                                        Hungary                 Albania                                                                                           Phased
                               India                                            Mandatory e-                                     Serbia                     Mandatory e-
                                                                                                                                                            invoice planned for
                                                                                                                                                                                  implementation of
                               Mandatory                Real time reporting     invoice for B2B                                                                                   mandatory E-
                                                                                                                                 E-invoicing is set to      July
                               e-invoicing for all      obligation
                                                        extended to
                                                                                cashless                                         become mandatory                                 invoicing for B2B    Japan
                               companies with an                                transactions                                     as of January                                    transactions         Implementation
                               annual turnover of       include B2C
                                                        transactions, B2B
                                                                                starting from                                                              Hungary                                     of Qualified
                               100 Rs from January                              July 2021.                                                                 Plans to introduce                          Invoice System
                                                        IC supplies of
                                                                                                                                                           SAF-T- in 2022                              planned for
                                                        goods and
                                                                                                                                                           (proposal)                                  October 1
                                                        services, and other
                                                        export sales

                                                                                   UK
                                                                                   Mandatory                                                             Norway
                                 2021

                                                                                                                                                                                  2023
                                                                                                                                  2022
                                                                                   implementation of
                                                                                                                                                         Introduction of new
                                                                                   Digital Links as part
                                                                                                                                                         XML VAT return
                                                                                   of the MTD
                                                                                   initiative as from        KSA                                         from 2022
      India                                                                        April                     Introduction of
      Mandatory                             Egypt                                                            mandatory e                                                          Poland
      e-invoicing for all                   Mandatory e-invoicing                                            invoicing for all   Romania                                          Plans to introduce
      companies with an                     for certain companies                                            taxpayers from 4    Plans to introduce      Philippines              mandatory
      annual turnover of                    as from February 15,                                             December 2021       SAF-T- in 2022.         E-invoicing is set to    electronic VAT
      500 Rs from                           (Phase 2)                                                                            (proposal)              become mandatory         invoicing as from
      October 2020                                                                                                                                       as from end of 2022
                                                                                Portugal                                                                                          2023.
                                                                                Mandatory for non-                               Portugal
                                                                                residents to have a
                               Albania                                          certified billing software
                                                                                                                                 Invoices must contain
                                                                                                                                 a QR code, and a
                               Mandatory e-invoicing                            as from July 2021                                unique identification
                               for B2G from January
                                                                                                                                 number (ATCUD)
                                                                                                                                 validated by the tax
                                                                                                                                 authority from
                                                                                                                                 January
Financial transformation for the tax function leveraging SAP S/4HANA - Per Evers, Jon H Rosseland, Andreas Sturesson - Deloitte Tax Management ...
Types of digital reporting
Four core approaches

                                                        Real-time reporting putting pressure on   e-Filing focus on driving automated
                                                        finance functions:                        process from source to file:

                                                        • Spanish SII reporting: Electronic AP    • UK MTD: The UK’s Making Tax Digital
                                                          and AR invoice submission in near         initiative to automate the submission
                                                          real-time – every 4 days                  of VAT reporting.

                                                        • Hungary real-time upload: Electronic    • Poland JPK: Electronic submission of
                                                          submission of all domestic AR ‘B2B’       book information (warehouses,
                                                          invoices in real-time: e-Invoicing to     finance) on a monthly process.
                                                          regulator

                                                                                                                                        e-Audit focusing on all data hosted
               Electronic transfer of invoice data as
                                                                                                                                        within ERP and other systems. Slower
               transactions are created and booked
                                                                                 Real-time                                              to respond, but more
               in accounting systems. Governments
               capture data as it is created:
                                                                                                       e-Filing                         comprehensive:
                                                                                 Reporting
                                                                                                                                        • Norwegian SAF-T: Require entire
               • Italian SDI: Requires real-time
                                                                                                                                          ERP system to be uploaded in
                 submission of all B2B and B2C
                                                                                                                                          electronic filing format.
                 invoicing in electronic format
                                                                 e-Invoicing                                          e-Audit             Potentially looking at entire back-
                                                                                                                                          up of ERP systems.

                                                                                         Response time
                                          Immediate                                         Periodic                                      On request
Financial transformation for the tax function leveraging SAP S/4HANA - Per Evers, Jon H Rosseland, Andreas Sturesson - Deloitte Tax Management ...
The Digitalization of Tax Reporting
Multiple new reporting requirements introduced – all based on XML and several connected with SAF-T

                                    2. SAF-T Cash Register
      1. A-melding
                                      ▪ 2017 - 2019
       ▪ 2015                                                                       3. SAF-T Financial Data
                                      ▪ Cash Transactions
       ▪ Payroll / Employee Taxes
                                      ▪ XML                                            ▪ 2020
       ▪ XML
                                                                                       ▪ Accounting Data / Bookkeeping
                                                                                       ▪ XML

                                          Collect Data
                                                            Digitalization of Tax
                                                                                                      5. eVAT Listings
                                                                                                          ▪   Sales and Purchase Ledgers
                                                                                                          ▪   2022 – 2023 ???              6. eCIT
                                                                                                          ▪   XML
                                                                                                                                              ▪   Corporate Income Tax
                                                                                                          ▪   Based on SAF-T
                                                            Standardization                                                                   ▪   2022 – 2024
                                                                                                                                              ▪   XML
        4. eVAT                                                                                                                               ▪   Linked with SAF-T
           ▪   2022
           ▪   New VAT return
                                                                   Automation
           ▪   XML
           ▪   Based on SAF-T                                                             Analytics
                                                                                                                             Smart Audit
                                                                                                                                                     Direct Assessment?
Financial transformation for the tax function leveraging SAP S/4HANA - Per Evers, Jon H Rosseland, Andreas Sturesson - Deloitte Tax Management ...
Challenges for tax in a financial transformation
Internal factors and opportunities for tax

                        Migrating to S/4                                                    S/4 pre-configured solutions
                                                        S/4 implementations are new
                     is a Life event for tax,
                                                        implementations not ‘Lift and              does not equal
                an opportunity to enhance data
                                                                   Shift’                      Pre-Configured for Tax
                      for all tax processes

                                    Tax opportunities related to the SAP S/4 HANA transformation journey

                     Unify and
                                         Operational      Become a      Take       Real-time Data-         Business
                  Standardise the
                                         Efficiencies     Strategist   Control   driven Tax Function    Transformation
                      Process
SAP Global Tax Management & Extensions
Complex challenges facing today’s tax organisations based on External factors

                                  Transactional                                  Analytical

                       Calculation                eInvoicing    Periodic declaration          Validation

                                                   Electronic
                      Tax calculation                             Tax declarations       Validation and audit
                                                  documents
SAP Global Tax Management

              SAP eDocument/Document Compliance                           SAP Tax Service
              • Comply with many local regulations mandating              • Calculate accurate tax with minimum human
                the use of electronic documents                             intervention
                                                                          • Universal integration to partner tax engines
                                                                SCP

                                                            Transactional

                                                              Analytics

                                                               S/4HANA
              SAP Advanced Compliance Reporting (ACR)                     SAP Tax Compliance
              • Manage statutory reporting worldwide with                 • Automatically identify incorrect tax data and
                unified user experience                                     manage rectification
SAP Tax Compliance at a glance

                        1. Connect data sources                 SAP                     Non- SAP

                                                                                                           2. Manage / Optimize Checks

                                                                                                                Examples:

                                                                                     Check                          Master data related checks
                                                                                     Repository
                                                                                                                    Transaction data related checks
                                                                                                                    Special checks like Chain transactions

                        4. Take corrective actions

                               Manage Tasks/                                                      3. Receive / validate          exceptions
                                Collaborate/
                                   Status
                                                                                                               Routing

              TM/IA/BU/IT                      Notifications       Exceptions –                       TM/IA/BU/IT                            Check Source
                               integrated                      Tax Compliance hits                                                              System
                               dashboard
Process Map – How SAP supports Tax Compliance

Generic process of
                       Identification of     Definition and    Scheduling and        Report results         Triggering and        Tracking and
continuous tax                                                                                                                                       Reporting and
                        tax compliance      implementation      execution of        and analysis of          execution of        remediation of
monitoring and risk                                                                                                                                  Optimization
                         requirements          of checks           checks          compliance issues        mitigation tasks        findings
management

Sample process of      Identification of     Definition and    Scheduling and        Report results
existing solutions:     tax compliance      implementation      execution of        and analysis of                              Manual process
partially automated      requirements          of checks           checks          compliance issues

Holistic process to                                                                                              Automated initiation of
                                                                                                                 remediation with status
enable a tax control     Central repository of                                  Continuous identification                                         Reporting and
                                                     Scenario management                                            management and
system based on SAP             checks                                            of compliance issues               documentation                 optimization
Tax Compliance                                                                                                         (audit trail)
Advanced Compliance Reporting - considerations

VAT Periodic Return

Withholding Tax

EC Sales List

                                Any legal reporting requirement
                                                                       Advanced Compliance Reporting
Financial Statement

Audit Files
                                                                            Run time
VAT Sales and Purchase Ledger                                                            Design Time
                                                                  S/4HANA Cloud                         S/4HANA
Balance of Payments                                                SAP Cloud Platform*
                                                                  SAP HEC                              Central Finance
Asset Reporting

Foreign trade declaration

Transport Tax

Goods and Service Tax
End-to-end reporting process
Define, Consume and monitor the activities around your reporting process

Reporting Activities are preparatory steps like consolidation, exception analysis and post
steps like posting of tax payables.

They can be carried out before or after the legal report generation. With the flexible
Reporting activities concept, all activities can be plugged in to enable end-to-end legal
reporting.
What SAP S/4HANA for advanced compliance reporting can do for your business

           Legal compliance                                              Flexibility
                                                                         Fast adoption of constantly
Globally compliant with easy
                                                                         changing legal reforms and
  adoption of legal changes,
                                                                         business needs through flexible
  different legal formats and
                                                                         rules and extendible design
            direct submission
                                                                         environment

                                    Advanced Compliance Reporting

                                            ONE platform

                 Reduced TCO                                           Transparency
  E2E legal reporting process                                          Dashboard reporting status
         within one solution                                           Full audit trace and embedded
                                                                       analytics
Vision – Tax in SAP

                                                                      Tax Digital Boardroom / Cockpit
  Tax Management

                                                     Tax Function Management, Analytics, Scenario creation, Create Value

                              Other                      WHT                                     TP                           VAT/GST/SUT                     CIT

                                                                                         SAP
                   SAP PaPm                          SAP Add-on       SAP Tax                                              SAP Tax                       Tax Audit
                                  TP Documentation                                    Document           SAP ACR                            DAC 6 Tool
                                                                      Service                                              Cpompliance                   Tracker
                                                                                      Compliance
Tax user
 Access

                                                                                                                                         Digital Real
                                               Tax                    Tax                    Tax                        Financial
                   Tax Calculations                                                                                                         Time             Tax Audit
                                            Processing            Validations             Compliance                    Reporting
                                                                                                                                         Reporting
  SAP Core S/4

                                                                                Invoicing (P2P, O2C and Intercompany)

                                                                                   Master Data & Transactional Data
Challenges for tax in a financial transformation
Internal factors and opportunities for tax

                        Migrating to S/4                                                    S/4 pre-configured solutions
                                                        S/4 implementations are new
                     is a Life event for tax,
                                                        implementations not ‘Lift and              does not equal
                an opportunity to enhance data
                                                                   Shift’                      Pre-Configured for Tax
                      for all tax processes

                                    Tax opportunities related to the SAP S/4 HANA transformation journey

                     Unify and
                                         Operational      Become a      Take       Real-time Data-         Business
                  Standardise the
                                         Efficiencies     Strategist   Control   driven Tax Function    Transformation
                      Process
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