e-Bright · Member of the Data Stream Group
Data Stream for Tax
Multinationals already hold the data they need for full tax compliance. It never reaches the tax function in a form they can trust. An alliance of specialists fixes that across transfer pricing, VAT, Customs, Pillar Two and CbCR and e-Bright builds the people side of it.
60 - 70%
of tax team time is lost to data wrangling instead of value-add advisory work.
70%
of transfer pricing data overlaps with VAT data already provided, yet it is rebuilt from scratch every time.
The Problem
The problem broken down
Every multinational already has the raw data it needs. By the time it reaches the tax department it has been reshaped, recategorised and re-keyed so many times that nobody can say with confidence whether it is still correct.
01
Data the tax team does not own
By the time a number reaches tax it has been pulled from the ERP, reshaped by Finance, reclassified by accounting and exported to a spreadsheet — with no way back to the original record.
Data Desert
02
Siloed filings, duplicated effort
TP, VAT, Customs, Pillar Two and CbCR each run as a standalone exercise. The same underlying transactions are requested, reformatted and resent every single time.
03
Experts doing data entry
Data the tax team does not own
Tax professionals who should be advising on structure and risk are instead rebuilding spreadsheets and chasing source files. This is the real, recurring cost of the data desert.
04
Unmanaged risk and leakage
When legal, economic and financial realities drift apart across disconnected silos, the gap is where disputes, surprises and lost margin take hold.
None of this is a technology problem alone. The data can be fixed in months — the habits, the skills and the trust take a team that knows what to do with it.
The Solution
One river, many destinations
Data management vendors sit at the river's head, building and maintaining one canonical model of the client's transactional data. From there it flows into the tax engines, and on into downstream reporting. Each engine is operated by a domain specialist — but they all read from the same source.
A corporate in-house and academia review team sits alongside the group, testing how relevant each solution is to the people who have to run it. That is the same question e-Bright answers through training.
The ecosystem
Specialists on every part of the river
Each partner owns their domain. Together they form one integrated solution built around a single trusted data source — with e-Bright covering education.
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e-Bright
The recognised online e-learning platform for the digital transformation of tax workflows — training and certifying the professionals who run the data stream.