Your team closes another quarter. Trial balances arrive in varying formats from multiple Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Controllers submit provision data via email. State apportionment calculations live in spreadsheets passed between analysts. Estimated payments are manually entered into multiple systems.

The compliance work gets done — it always does. But the hours spent reconciling data, chasing submissions, and validating accuracy across disconnected tools consume the capacity your team needs for work that actually moves the organization forward.

This isn’t a headcount problem. It’s an integration problem.

The 2025 State of the Corporate Tax Department Report confirms what many tax leaders already know: 58% of tax departments globally report being under-resourced — and 59% lack confidence they can upgrade their tax technology in the next two years. The solution isn’t adding more tools, it’s connecting the ones that matter.

To dig deeper, visit the original article on the Thomson Reuters blog.