FOR ADVISORS SERVING BUSINESSES THAT SELL INTERNATIONALLY
Tax Canary enables you to check the tax on your client's international service deals before the price is agreed and it's too late. Add international tax screening to your offering.
THE PROBLEM
Your clients sell consulting, engineering, technical or software services across borders. Each of their deals could trigger withholding tax, irrecoverable VAT, or a taxable presence in another country, and the moment to handle it is before the price is agreed, not when they've been short-paid, or payment is delayed. But international tax research is time intensive, so deals get priced and agreed and the tax issues aren't identified in time to mitigate them.
↓ Margin eroded ↓ Payment delayed ↓ Mitigation missed
HOW IT WORKS
Tax Canary turns tax screening into a service you can confidently provide your client, with verifiable tax intelligence presented in clear language.
STEP 01
Select the countries
Seller country and customer country - the starting point for every cross-border tax logic rule that follows.
STEP 02
Answer guided questions
Adaptive questions take the quickest path to the tax intelligence for each transaction. No tax knowledge required to get through them.
STEP 03
Read the traffic light
Red, amber or green - with the rate, the Tax Treaty position, and the exact steps to take.
WHO IT'S BUILT FOR
If your clients sell services or licence across borders, Tax Canary covers it:
Consulting Management services Administrative services Engineering
Technical services Software services Certification Inspection
Intellectual Property licensing
Clients are selling goods only, or staying domestic? Then this isn't for you - Tax Canary is built for one job: handling the cross-border tax on services and intellectual property.
WHAT YOU GET
01 Withholding tax
- Whether it applies to the transaction
- The rate charged
- Whether a Tax Treaty reduces the rate
- Exactly what to do to claim the Tax Treaty rate
02 Value Added Tax
- Whether VAT applies to the transaction
- Whether it's subject to reverse charge
- What action to take to ensure reverse charge applies
- Whether there's a requirement to register for VAT abroad
03 Permanent establishment
- Whether the activity creates a permanent establishment in the foreign country
- Returns a red traffic light - so it's clear when specialist support is necessary and you can dial in those resources
FOR ADVISORS
01 Cover every transaction
You're no longer limited by headcount. Every deal gets checked - not just the ones that happen to reach your tax team.
02 One consistent position
Everyone gets the same researched answer, so tax positions don't vary depending on who asked or when.
03 A tool they'll actually use
Guided, plain language and available 24/7 - so your commercial team checks the tax themselves instead of routing around it.
WHO'S BEHIND IT
Tax Canary's intelligence comes from international tax professionals who research and maintain the rules. AI helps speed up this process, but nothing reaches publication without human judgement.
SEE IT ON YOUR CLIENT'S SCENARIOs
Book a 20-minute demo and bring a scenario. We'll show you the exact tax position you'll see.