Series 25 - The Real-Time Tax Shift: When Continuous Controls Replace the Tax Calendar

The VAT return is dying. Not as a regulatory instrument — tax authorities will continue to require periodic reconciliation submissions for years, and in many jurisdictions for decades, after the underlying transaction data has moved to continuous transmission. But as a compliance process, as an organisational event, as the rhythm around which tax functions organise their work and their people, the...

The continuous transaction control mandate is arriving in jurisdiction after jurisdiction — and with it, a question that tax functions have not yet formally answered: what does a tax professional do when the transaction has already been validated by a government system before the tax team has seen it? The traditional tax compliance role was built around three core activities: assembling the data,...

About the Host Rıdvan Yiğit is the Founder & CEO of RTC Suite — the world's first Autonomous Compliance and Payment Intelligence platform, built natively on SAP BTP and operating across 80+ countries. For the past thirty years, the ERP has led and the tax function has followed. The ERP team defines the data model. The finance team configures the processes. The tax function receives whateve...

The tax calendar is not a compliance requirement. It is an architectural accommodation — a scheduled rhythm of returns, reconciliations, and filings that exists because the systems processing tax data were not designed to do it continuously. The monthly VAT return does not exist because tax authorities want monthly data. It exists because the organisation's systems can only assemble and valida...