Step 2 of 4 · The mapTwo places where tax work happens, team by team

Where open source already does tax work. And where it doesn't yet.

Below are two places where tax work happens: a company's tax department, drawn from public tax-governance disclosures, and a tax authority, drawn from the functions in the OECD's Tax Administration series. Every team shows the activities it owns and what is open for each. Pick a team to see its processes and its projects. Where there is a gap, the page says so.

The blueprint

Where tax work happens, team by team.

A company's tax department and a tax authority. Pick one, then pick a team. The people at the top of each chart are there by design: no agent selects a material tax position.

Board and CFO on top, a Head of Tax, 10 specialist teams, country teams and local Finance executing, and the functions Tax works with every week.

Govern and decide
Board / Supervisory BoardApproves the tax strategy and risk appetite. Annual review, event-driven escalation.
Audit / Audit & Risk CommitteeOversight and challenge: material risks, control deficiencies, significant disputes.
Chief Financial OfficerExecutive owner of tax strategy, risk and resources. Approves high-materiality positions.
Head of Tax / Group TaxEnd-to-end function: policy, priorities, people, budget, material technical decisions, authority relationships.Tax governance · Transformation & operating model · people only
Advise, challenge and execute: the specialist teams. Pick one.
Execute and operate
Regional / Country Tax teamsLocal law, filings, audits, business partnering, implementation of group policy. Report to Group Tax, often with a dotted line to the local CFO.79 country-specific open projects, mostly e-invoicing formats and VAT tools
Local Finance / Controllers · Shared services · Managed-service providersPrepare returns, gather data and run standardised processes under Group Tax policy and controls. Monitored against delivery targets.Use whatever the teams above adopt. Provider SLAs and evidence: no open tooling.
Works with, every week
Internal Audit / Enterprise RiskIndependent third line over the Tax Control Framework. Reports to the Audit Committee.
IT / Data / ERPShared architecture; production deployment of tax logic; access and change control.
Legal / Corporate DevelopmentTransactions, contracts, privilege, entity governance.
TreasuryFinancing, repatriation, cash-tax liquidity.
Business Units / StrategyOwn the commercial decision; Tax owns the tax assessment and escalation rights.
Shared Services / AP / AR / ProcurementWhere indirect tax actually happens: master data, invoices, coding.
HR / Payroll / Global MobilityPayroll withholding, equity compensation, cross-border workers.
External advisers / managed servicesSpecialist capacity and outsourced compliance, under Group Tax governance.

15 activities have no open project yet.

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