Delivering high-value automation to shared service centres – comprehensive tax control and visibility, with lowered operational costs. Empowering teams with in-app workflows and data management tools enabling collaborative working – wherever they are based – reducing costs of siloed applications and unreliable e-mail exchange.
#1 global VAT reporting application for shared service centres
Transparency & control of reporting; major cost-savings; future proofed for digital reporting mandates
The unique benefits of VATCalc for shared service centres
Legislative-driven compliance
VATCalc’s application is built on a tax engine codifying national VAT laws, giving multinational businesses confidence that every transaction is fully audited before a VAT submission and is legally robust and audit-ready.
This legislative foundation reduces reliance on local advisors and ad hoc research, helping cut costs and standardise compliance across all subsidiaries. It ensures your group is protected for audits and penalties.
Transparency across the entire group's VAT affairs
VATCalc provides a single source of truth for all VAT data, from initial transaction to filing. Shared service centres gain:
- Complete visibility of every transaction and submission across subsidiaries
- Audit-ready workflows with clear preparation, review, approval, and submission stages
- Automatic identification of errors and misclassifications, improving upstream ERP data quality
- Consistent application of VAT treatment across all entities and jurisdictions
Self-help entity onboarding & management
VATCalc provides self-help tools designed for shared service centres:
- Data mapping and validation tools to standardise source data from multiple ERPs
- Integrated workflow and task management for multi-user teams in the office, working remotely in any country
- A single dashboard for all returns, deadlines, and tasks across every subsidiary, jurisdiction and team member
This eliminates the high cost and inefficiency of manual reconciliations, spreadsheets, filing calendars, and unreliable email chains – allowing teams to operate efficiently across entities and locations.
Be ready for e-Invoicing & real-time reporting
The future of VAT compliance is digital real-time and transactional. VATCalc uniquely enables shared service centres to stay ahead of global e-invoicing and live reporting mandates:
- Audit transactions to legislative level before sending or receiving e-invoices
- Ensure VAT returns, SAF-T, and e-reports are always identical
- Eliminate hours of manual reconciliation across multiple systems
As tax authorities increase ViDA-style reporting and Continuous Transaction Controls, VATCalc shields your business from risk
Single application for auditing and reporting transactions
Auditor – full legislative audit of transactions prior to returns
VATCalc’s Auditor is the only audit solution built on fully codified VAT law. Prior to returns preparation, Auditor provides:
- 100% transaction checks against local legislative rules, with proposed adjustments with article references
- Clear identification of errors, misclassifications and misstated VAT amounts – with suggested adjustments
- Adjustments to transactions which can be implemented in the returns; and shared with colleagues to improve their ERP, AP/AR data and upstream processes
Filer – returns and every submission associated with a VAT registration for global entities
VAT Filer covers all VAT reporting obligation, including:
- VAT Returns
- EC Sales Lists (ESL)
- Intrastat
- SAF-T and other structured file submissions
- Control Statements; and
- Ledger reporting
Data Insight Tools
Through our Data Insight Tools – in-app business intelligence product – VATCalc can monitor KPIs, identify risk and deliver data insight across the group’s returns transaction data.
In addition, external tools, such as Power BI and Tableau, can be simply integrated with VATCalc should you wish to deploy your preferred solution.
How to submit returns – three options
- Where countries permit direct e-filing out of our application, this is available
- Shared service centres or their 3rd-party agents can download XML-format returns
- VATCalc offers its ‘hybrid‘ submissions via its carefully selected last-mile filing partners. This includes VAT registration services
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VATCalc – turning your shared service centre compliance process into a value-creating function, reducing errors, recovering lost VAT, and protecting against penalties