Tax Transformation Trends 2025
Tax and finance leaders are focused on data, compliance, cost management, automation and AI, and finding their optimal resource mix—a balance between outsourcing, shared services, and core tax functions.
Rising to meet the moment
Deloitte’s 2025 Tax Transformation Trends survey was fielded in an environment of accelerating geopolitical change and a rapidly shifting global trade landscape. Decisions need to be made on balancing cost and compliance with the longer-term response of potential IP structuring, supply/value chain restructuring, and a fundamental shift in operating models. Tax leaders are rising to meet this moment—they are delivering on critical tasks, prioritizing planning, and embracing the opportunity to deliver new value to the business.
of respondents chose outsourcing as main approach to at least one tax process
see AI skills as essential for the tax workforce today
see reduced operating cost as a benefit to outsourcing
with revenues over US$20b prioritize lowering the cost of global tax provision and TP documentation
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Christophe De Waele
Emily VanVleet
