Bookkeeping & tax compliance

Tax function challenges

Some of the key challenges that we often see tax functions facing are:

Inadequate access to quality information: Tax departments often find it difficult to obtain and analyze the right data, with multiple sources and people working on the information.
Outdated technology: With inadequate updates to technology being used by the tax functions, there’s an excessive use of templates and non-automated systems.
Lack of documentation: If processes aren’t well-documented, it’s difficult to know the status of a project, when people leave or you’re dealing with an audit situation.
Use of disconnected systems: There’s often an excessive use of email to collaborate, which complicates the collaboration and documentation process.

With these challenges, tax groups often are in firefighting mode to address the issues of the day, with little time and opportunity to be the strategic and proactive function that they’d like to be.

Tax technology

We live in a world where tax is being asked to achieve more with the same or fewer resources. Tax professionals must innovate to thrive in today's environment. Technology can enable the tax function to drive greater efficiency, improve tax processes, manage risk and gain greater insight through analytics.

Leading tax departments are leveraging reliable tools that can automate workflow, promote accuracy, reduce risk, and increase collaboration in tax and across the business.

PwC has developed solutions, powered by various forms of technology including robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, that help companies of all sizes meet their unique needs with tools that are fit for purpose and can allow you to transform your tax department.

Compliance

We can help you to transform how your tax function delivers. To optimise your performance, we’ll help you enhance organizational design and make the most of technology.

You might be looking to create ‘the tax function of the future’ or seeking to become a strategic partner for your business. Whatever ambition you’re moving towards, we’ll work together to streamline your daily activities and processes, drive innovation and maximise the value you create.

Similarly, you might be looking to harness the power of technology – and the transformational impact it can have. Or you might be facing business, regulatory and environmental disruption, and you’d like a guide to help you navigate the change. We’ll work with you to design and execute a tax operations strategy and ‘digital upskilling’ programme to help your business make better decisions – through data clarity and real-time business intelligence.

How we can help

We can help you to transform how your tax function delivers. To optimise your performance, we’ll help you enhance organizational design and make the most of technology.

You might be looking to create ‘the tax function of the future’ or seeking to become a strategic partner for your business. Whatever ambition you’re moving towards, we’ll work together to streamline your daily activities and processes, drive innovation and maximise the value you create.

Please see below section for more information.

Your benefits

We first understand your unique situation and requirements, and then use our team’s significant knowledge and experience to help you realize your tax transformation goals, so you get:

More time for strategy: Less manual effort means tasks like accumulating, manipulating and validating data can be completed much faster.
More informed decision making: As you spend more time on strategic activities, you can use analytics to focus on business opportunities and forecasting.
Greater access to useful information: The tax group will find it easier to locate and examine archived data to defend tax positions, make strategic decisions, and have richer dialogues.
Reduced financial reporting risk: Enhanced processes and automation can reduce surprises and the risk of tax financial reporting errors.
Improved compliance: The extra time spent on review and analysis improved the quality of tax compliance.

We will take care of your compliance obligations, enabling you to focus on your core business operations.
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People

We follow strict recruiting standards for hiring both entry-level and experienced professionals (including, but not limited to interviews, background checks, personal and professional skills tests, collecting reference letters).

We support our employees with world class e-learns, classroom sessions, professional exams, coaching and on-job trainings. Globally, PwC invests hundreds of millions of dollars every year in training and development programmes and resources, which are available to all our employees in Kazakhstan.

We encourage regular reviews of the objectives, progress and achievements. Often, the best development comes from working in new areas, and through innovative working methods, so we always encourage our people to take advantage of any opportunities offering new challenges.

Scalability

Core project team can easily scale to keep pace with small, medium and large business needs. From time to time you may additionally involve our additional experts (legal, customs, transfer pricing and other) to resolve your issues on ad-hoc basis, rather than hiring long-term employees.

Technology

Engagement Center is our fast, easy, and secure tool to access and share information in one place and oversee the process with clarity and ease.

Below are some of its key features and benefits.

24/7 project status from any part of the World;
a clear view of task allocation and deadlines;
online requests and queries eliminating emails and provide an audit trail of responses;
secure data storage/exchange.

Transparent fees

We will discuss any changes to our fees before moving forward so that you experience “no surprises” when it comes to billings. If any out-of-scope work is required, we will have a transparent and proactive discussion with you before we move forward

International network

We regularly connect with our global network of 250,000+ tax professionals from 158 countries to explore best practice.

Approach

For example:

Roles, responsibilities, and handoffs are well defined;
Procedures are well-documented, and are easily repeatable
Team is able to easily locate documents due to consistent naming conventions and overall organizational framework;
Due to knowledge sharing and regular catch-ups staff has no difficulty picking up other people’s work to assist when a person become ill.

Internal controls

PwC adheres to a number of internal rules, policies and procedures to ensure compliance with high quality standards.

Timely delivery

We have a proven track record of actively managing the compliance, staying in contact through weekly calls, and delivering clear updates and workflows.

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