FOR IN-HOUSE TAX TEAMS AT BUSINESSES THAT SELL INTERNATIONALLY
Tax Canary lets your commercial, sales and bid teams check the tax on international service deals themselves before the price is agreed and it's too late. Tax stops being the bottleneck, and nothing gets signed without being screened for tax.
THE PROBLEM
Your teams sell consulting, engineering, technical or software services across borders. Each deal can trigger withholding tax, irrecoverable VAT, or a taxable presence in the customer's country, and the moment to handle it is before the price is agreed, not when you're short-paid, or payment is delayed. But your tax team can't review every tender by hand, 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 review into a step your commercial team completes in minutes, with consistent answers everyone can rely on.
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 teams sell or licence across borders, Tax Canary covers it:
Consulting Management services Administrative services Engineering
Technical services Software services Certification Inspection
Intellectual Property licensing
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 you need 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 the tax team are involved immediately to plan and mitigate tax risk
FOR THE TAX FUNCTION
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 OWN SCENARIO
Book a 20-minute demo and bring a scenario. We'll show you the exact tax position your commercial team would see - before the price is agreed.