The tax function, engineered.

Pankaj AgarwalTax Technology LeaderDubai, UAE

The record, in figures

Years in tax technology
15+Years in tax technology
Projects delivered
40+Projects delivered
Countries
7Countries
Continents
4Continents

Fifteen years of direct tax technology across Big Four, Fortune 100, FTSE 250, and the GCC’s largest corporate income tax programme.

Platforms

  • Oracle Fusion ERP and EPM, Oracle AI Agent Studio
  • Onestream Financial consolidation and Tax Reporting
  • SAP S4 HANA and Group Reporting
  • Onesource Income Tax, Onesource Tax provisions, Onesource Workflow Manager
  • Longview Tax provisions
  • Microsoft Office
  • Google Workspace
  • Amazon AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Expertise

Four things I am actually called in for.

Career

Fifteen years, read as distance travelled.

Each role is as long as the time spent there, and each qualification sits on the year it was earned. Choose any of them for the detail.

Career and qualifications, in order. Choose one to see its detail.

Experience · 2024 to present

Senior Manager, Tax Technology Practice

Intellicore Consulting Group · Dubai · Saudi Arabia · Bahrain

GCC corporate tax programmes.

  • GCC's largest group — 1,000+ entitiesCorporate tax transformation for the largest company in the GCC — over 1,000 entities — delivered on Oracle EPM Tax Reporting.
  • MRO — corporate tax & transfer pricing on PCMCorporate tax and transfer pricing implementation for an MRO-industry group using Oracle EPM Profitability and Cost Management (PCM).
  • Telecom — Pillar Two & CbCRPillar Two and Country-by-Country Reporting implementation for a Bahrain-based telecom operator.
  • Pillar Two — 300+ entities, 30+ countriesPillar Two implementation for a Saudi-headquartered group with 300+ entities across 30+ countries, on Oracle EPM.Read the case study

Experience · 2022 to 2024

Manager, Tax Reporting Strategy & Technology

PwC · London · United States · Finland

Corporate tax and Pillar Two implementations.

  • Recruitment group — corporate tax implementationCorporate tax implementation for a UK-headquartered recruitment company.
  • Real estate — Orbitax & ONESOURCE provisionOrbitax and Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE tax provision implementation for a real-estate group.
  • Engineering — corporate tax advisory on SAP S/4HANACorporate tax advisory for an SAP S/4HANA implementation at a Europe-headquartered engineering company.

Experience · 2019 to 2022

Manager, Tax Management Consulting

Deloitte · United States · Netherlands · India

Oracle Direct Tax practice lead. 20+ tax technologists.

  • Fortune 100 retailer — $100bn+ turnoverCorporate tax transformation for a US-headquartered Fortune 100 retailer with over $100bn in turnover.
  • Agribusiness — Longview tax provisionTax provision implementation for an agribusiness using Longview.

Experience · 2017 to 2019

Management Consultant, Tax Transformation

Accenture · South Africa · India · Netherlands

Oracle TRCS and ARCS functional lead.

  • Telecom — among the world's first EPM Tax Reporting buildsCorporate tax and account-reconciliation transformation for a South African telecom — among the first Oracle EPM Tax Reporting implementations delivered anywhere in the world.Read the case study

Experience · 2012 to 2017

Tax Senior Representative — US Income Tax

Agilent / Keysight Technologies · India · United States · United Kingdom

Built a nine-person US federal and international tax team.

  • Keysight — OneStream financial consolidationOneStream financial consolidation implementation for Keysight.
  • ONESOURCE — income tax & provisionONESOURCE Income Tax and ONESOURCE tax provision implementation.

Qualified · 2012

CA

ICAI, India

Qualified · 2011

B.Com

Delhi University

Qualified · 2018

CPA

Guam Board, USA

Qualified · Feb 2023

DITT

Diploma in Tax Technology, CIOT UK

One of the first people in the world to complete the qualification, in February 2023. The CIOT profiled it as a case study.

Read the CIOT case study ↗

Certified · 2024

Oracle Fusion AI Agent

Oracle

Certified · 2021

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Ambit

Live UAE Corporate Tax and Pillar Two computations, and every rule behind them.

Open one fictional multinational, computed for UAE Corporate Tax and Pillar Two from the same trial balances, and trace any figure back to its rule. Or read the rules in plain language, with worked examples and a calculator you can try.

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The computation workspace

One fictional multinational, computed from the same trial balances for every return it files: UAE Corporate Tax through to the return, the UAE Top-up Tax, and Pillar Two from GloBE income to who charges the top-up tax.

  • Hover any figure for the rule, the article and the inputs behind it
  • The Corporate Tax return on the FTA's own field numbers, and the Top-up Tax return
  • The GloBE Information Return as XML, and a board pack as a PDF
  • Every return's due date in one place, each set by a rule

Free to read, no account needed

The rule ledger

Both bodies of law written out one rule at a time, each at a permanent address you can cite. Every rule the computations use is here.

  • Each rule in plain language, with what it changes in practice
  • Worked examples, and a Try it panel you type your own figures into
  • The article it rests on, linked to the source
  • The date its sources were last reviewed

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