Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ study

Through seven customer interviews and data aggregation, Forrester concluded that Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Indirect Tax has the following three-year financial impact.

Summary of benefits

Three-year risk adjusted

• Reduction in annual error impact: $2.6 M
• Efficiency gains for compliance team: $493.8K
• Efficiency gains for tax team: $468.1K
• IT support and maintenance efficiency gains: $297.1K
• ROI: 120%
• Net present value: $2.1M
• Benefits present value: $3.8 M

ONESOURCE Indirect Tax by the numbers

• 50% of the compliance team workload reallocated to higher-value tasks
• Reduced error rate on invoices to 1%
• Significantly reduced burden on IT to manage changes

Voice of the customer

"The time efficiency is brilliant. It has made our VAT return process quicker. It frees up more time for the people that are preparing the returns and the people that are reviewing them."  —  Tax Manager, Manufacturing

"I’ve observed my colleagues stressing and losing sleep over these audits. Having this type of centralization solution makes me sleep much better at night because I know that if an audit does come through, I have the information readily available."  —  Tax Director, Water Filtration

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This document is an abridged version of a case study commissioned by Thomson Reuters, titled “The Total Economic Impact of Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Indirect Tax, June 2022”

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