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The tax department of the future

March 31 2012
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The demands on a multinational company’s tax department are growing quickly as tax authorities communicate more with one another and global compliance requirements increase. Joe Dalton discovers how the structure of tax departments is evolving to deal with these demands and what the tax function of the future may look like.

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