Firm name: Deloitte Tax LLP
Region: United States
Address: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112
Phone: +1 718 508 6846
Email: ronniedassen@deloitte.com
Website: www2.deloitte.com
Offices: 16 offices: Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, McLean, Miami, Morristown, New York, Raleigh, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Stamford
Number of practitioners: 84 Indirect tax specialists with global VAT experience

 

Deloitte’s US Value Added Tax (VAT) practice currently has 84 indirect tax practitioners with backgrounds from around the world (North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia). This team brings its distinctive local and global indirect tax experience to provide professional services to various US clients operating across a range of industry areas. These practitioners apply a business-oriented and client-centric delivery model, operating as the central point of contact and harnessing the experience and power of Deloitte’s leading Global Indirect Tax network for client teams located in the US in respect of their business global indirect tax matters.

Deloitte provides indirect tax compliance, advisory, and technology enablement services to many Fortune Global 500® companies seeking to manage and enhance their global indirect tax positions.

Deloitte’s US VAT practitioners help their clients as they monitor and stay ahead of indirect tax legislative changes that impact their businesses, analyze complex supply chain, and merger and acquisition (M&A) matters, design and implement indirect tax ERP/technology solutions, and navigate their global indirect tax compliance.

Our key differentiator is our ability to align a client’s global business strategy with its indirect tax obligations in an effective way. We can quickly identify relevant global indirect tax and technology matters that impact multinational businesses and have experience within our practice across a broad range of industry areas. We also have extensive experience in managing large and complex global engagements, working with multiple client (and internal Deloitte) stakeholders to provide business-focused, practical global indirect tax advice.

The ability of our practitioners to draw on the capabilities and strengths of a global network of more than 3,000 indirect tax and global trade practitioners and work with Deloitte’s tax, transfer pricing, consulting, financial advisory, and risk advisory practitioners helps us to provide clients with broad, business-focused advice that is not provided in a vacuum. This helps them navigate through the indirect tax implications of their global business challenges with confidence.

The market for global indirect tax services is more active than ever before, in large part driven by the significant shift of the indirect tax legislative landscape, increased reliance on technology to meet near-time/real-time reporting and e-invoicing requirements, as well as ongoing transformational and supply chain challenges for globally operating clients.

Specifically, digitization and e-commerce trends, and new ways of doing business with crypto instruments and blockchain, represent uncharted territories for many of our clients, especially when it comes to indirect tax given the lack of legislative guidelines.

Global international tax initiatives (for example, OECD Pillar Two) also have a significant impact on the indirect tax profile of our clients. These need to be addressed accordingly.

On top of the above trends and initiatives, countries are continuously seeking to enhance and expand indirect tax reporting transparency for global businesses, as well as their use of technology. The need for indirect tax services in the region will only continue to increase.

In anticipation of increasing digitalization, Deloitte’s US VAT practice has been working closely with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s (DTTL) global network of firms to provide resources that may help clients be ahead of the game. For example, our Atlas and Digitalization newsletters provide specific information on indirect tax developments in the digital space. Our practitioners also stay current on capabilities of leading technology companies in the space of indirect tax as well as e-reporting and e-invoicing in order to bring our clients a coherent view of the market landscape as they seek an operating model that is able to address all digital requirements, as needed.

Further, Deloitte’s US VAT practice contributed to the setup of our analytics tools for a truly global indirect tax compliance solution, called Indirect Tax Compliance, which enhances a client’s ability to do indirect tax forecasting and planning.

Our practitioners in the Americas region are working with clients on transformative solutions to manage their indirect tax organizations, leveraging the latest technologies.

Deloitte’s US VAT practice also leverages Deloitte’s global tax platform, Intela, to ease the exchange of information and streamline collaboration with clients on specific workstreams.

Our ability to deliver the strength of the Deloitte network—which includes DTTL’s global network of firms and their related entities—by aligning our indirect tax and global trade capabilities with the technology and business transformation capabilities of our tax, consulting, and advisory colleagues, results in deep knowledge of new and upcoming technologies and how they can be beneficial to indirect tax and global trade.

As an integrated service provider, Deloitte maintains an important position in this area due to our combination of capabilities, whether it be information technology practitioners, business practitioners, tax practitioners, or any other type of practitioner.


Our key service offerings

  • Assess the impact of external drivers on existing transactions and flows (new VAT regimes, changes in local VAT/GST law, e-commerce, e-services, marketplace rules, crypto instruments, etc.)
  • Assist with global indirect tax compliance (standardized global indirect tax compliance process, automation solutions, insourcing, co-sourcing, or outsourcing)
  • Identify the VAT implications of M&A transactions and corporate restructurings
  • Advise clients as they manage the VAT impact of global supply chain models, including supply chain re-organization and alignment
  • Assist with the design and delivery of complex indirect tax solutions in ERP/technology, finance transformation, and business model management space
  • Advise on indirect tax function design, strategy, and transformation


Recent wins

  • Transformation of the global indirect tax operating model, including elaborate automation and process efficiency for a large manufacturing organization


Awards

ITR Americas Tax Awards 2022

  • Deloitte was named the Americas Indirect Tax Firm of the Year for the second consecutive year
  • Deloitte US won “National Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year”
  • Deloitte won “Americas Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year” award for the sixth consecutive year
  • Deloitte won “Americas Tax Technology Firm of the Year” award for the fifth consecutive year
  • Deloitte won “Americas Tax Compliance and Reporting Firm of the Year” award for the third consecutive year

ITR World Tax & World Transfer Pricing tier rankings 2023

  • World Tax: Deloitte was ranked Tier 1 in five jurisdictions in the US:

o California
o District of Columbia
o Illinois
o New York
o Texas

  • World Transfer Pricing: Deloitte was ranked Tier 1 in the US.

ITR World Tax guide 2023 | Indirect Tax leaders
Seven Deloitte practitioners were recognized: Dwayne Van Wieren, Helen Cousineau, Kathy Saxton, Kristine Dozier, Matthew Polli, Nehal Radia, and Ronnie Dassen.
Source: International Tax Review

 

Eminent leaders

Ronnie Dassen, Deloitte Tax LLP VAT practice Leader, Deloitte Global Indirect Tax Leader  Indirect Tax Americas
Nehal Radia, Deloitte Tax LLP VAT practice
Gregory Verpoorten, Deloitte Tax LLP VAT practice
Phil Walton, Deloitte Tax LLP VAT practice
Barbara Bona, Deloitte Tax LLP VAT practice
Franck Olivier, Deloitte Tax LLP VAT practice
Fabrice Colla, Deloitte Tax LLP VAT practice

 

 

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