Tax Agent

A tax specialist who has read every rule you are subject to

Ask it the question you would put to your adviser — in any country you operate in, across any tax you are exposed to — and get an answer with the article it relied on, the figures worked through, and the date the rule was last checked.

Corporate taxRates, reliefs, groups and lossesIndirect taxVAT, GST and place of supplyTransfer pricingIntercompany pricing and documentationEmployment taxPayroll, benefits and mobile employees

Asking

A desk, not a search box

Real questions cross specialisms. A dozen people moving country is a payroll question, a social-security question and — the moment one of them signs a contract — a corporate one. The desk answers it that way: whoever owns the part in front of you takes it, and brings in the person who owns the rest.

Every reply carries a name, and beside it the authorities it leaned on fill in as they are used — the treaty article, the regulation, the guidance — each with the date it was last checked against the source.

Named specialistsSources as it answersFigures worked through

Coverage

Every country you are in, and the treaties between them

Domestic rules are the easy half. What is hard is the seam: which country taxes what when both of them think they can, and which treaty settles it. That seam is where most of the money and nearly all of the risk sits.

United KingdomUnited StatesIrelandGermanyFranceItalySpainNetherlandsBelgiumSwitzerlandLuxembourgPolandSwedenCanadaBrazilMexicoIndiaSingaporeHong KongJapanAustraliaUnited Arab EmiratesSaudi ArabiaSouth Africaand the rest

Treaties

The article, not the summary

Double-tax treaties are read at the article, so an answer about withholding names the rate and the clause that gives it to you.

Currency of the rule

Rules move; the answer says when

Rates change at budgets and thresholds change at year end. Every citation carries the date it was checked, and flags where a change is already legislated.

Language

Read in the original

Guidance is read where it is published rather than in translation, and quoted back to you in yours.

What it covers

The whole of it, not the headline taxes

The questions that cost you money are rarely the ones with their own department. They are the ones that fall between two.

Corporate taxRates, reliefs, groups, losses and the returns behind them

VAT and GSTPlace of supply, registration thresholds, reverse charge, recovery

Transfer pricingIntercompany pricing, benchmarking and the file that defends it

Employment taxPayroll, benefits, equity and people who move between countries

Withholding taxWhat is deducted at source, and which treaty reduces it

Permanent establishmentWhen presence in a country becomes a taxable one

Customs and dutyClassification, origin and what a border costs you

Incentives and creditsR&D, capital allowances and the ones nobody claims

Your numbers

It works the position, not just the rule

Point it at the ledger, the invoices, the payroll extract or last year's return and it computes against your actual figures — the exposure, the relief you have not claimed, the entity that is registered in the wrong place.

What comes back is a working paper, not a paragraph: the numbers, the rule each one was tested against, and a memo or a workbook you can hand to whoever has to review it.

Reads

Ledgers, invoices, payroll, returns

Through the sources you have already connected, and the files you attach to the question.

Produces

A memo, a workbook, a filing pack

Formula-driven and traceable, so a reviewer can follow every figure back to the line it came from.

Watches

Deadlines and rule changes

Registration thresholds, filing dates and rates you are exposed to — it tells you when one moves.

Accountability

It advises. A person still signs

Nothing is filed, submitted or sent on your behalf. The agent's job is to do the reading, the arithmetic and the drafting — and to show its working so the person who is accountable can check it in minutes rather than days.

Shows its working

Every figure traceable

Back to the line in the ledger and the rule it was tested against.

Says what it is unsure of

Uncertainty, stated

Where a position is arguable it says so and gives you both readings, rather than picking one quietly.

Reviewed

Sign-off before anything moves

Route any answer to a reviewer, with the sources attached.

On the record

Kept, with who asked

Question, answer, authorities and reviewer — held together, so the position can be defended later.

It runs inside your organisation on your own data, screened by the same guardrails as every other surface — so a tax question containing figures that cannot leave the building does not. How screening works