Tele2 using Ramax Group implemented tax monitoring for the reporting under the property tax

2020: Implementation of tax monitoring for the reporting under the property tax

On June 15, 2020 it became known that specialists of RAMAX Group (RAMAKS Group) implemented a data mart for the reporting of mobile operator Tele2 under the property tax. The introduced regime of information exchange allows the company to optimize costs, quickly and conveniently to analyze tax statements, to minimize tax risks.

The mode of tax monitoring significantly reduces costs for tax administration, accelerates the solution of disputable situations on application of the tax law, helps the company to avoid in the future additional accruals of the amounts of taxes, penalty fee and penalties and also reduces a burden of tax control.

Creation of the solution for consolidation and the convenient analysis of the reporting of the companies of Tele2 group (more than 100 declarations on the property tax within reporting period), including detailed interpretation of indicators of tax declarations up to the documents which created property value became a project objective.

Thus, the customer had a need to receive a system which would provide transparency of internal accounting processes of the company and further would save costs for maintenance of tax audits. Examination of consultants and experience of similar projects at big customers of RAMAKS Group formed the basis of work on creation of an automated system of providing the reporting in tax authorities with respect for completeness of all provided information.

The main scope of work mentioned integration of a system to the platform SAP and assumed use of modules ERP and BW and also creation of user interfaces Fiori.

Within the project the command simulated and implemented the data warehouse, finished and tested instruments of calculation of the property tax and created for it 12 additional report forms. Specialists of RAMAX Group developed applications for access to these reports and the publication of data in "A show-window of tax monitoring" on the property tax. The project of tax monitoring for the reporting under the property tax in Tele2 is complete. Specialists of RAMAX Group performed a full support at a grade level and testings of key users of the customer. The company updated all project documentation and implemented additional requirements on completions of reports of BO, the FIORI interface.

Implementing solution of SAP on the property tax for tax monitoring allows in a complex and to short terms to carry out the analysis of indicators of tax statements and also it is essential to reduce amount of data, represented to tax authorities. It will lead to reduction of terms of conducting tax audits and expense reduction of the company on tax administration. Besides, the implemented system will become the main site for communication with tax authorities on difficult and atypical transactions. Also we will be able to reduce tax risks due to obtaining motivated opinions of specialists of the tax inspection administering us and FTS.

Work on the list of requirements to a system taking into account a number of additions from the customer was successfully performed using flexible Agile-approach, and the RAMAX Group command implemented the project qualitatively and in time.

2019: Start of Data mart

On November 1, 2019 the company IBS reported that it helped mobile operator Tele2 to start data Show-window within the Tax Monitoring project on income tax. As a result FTS RUSSIAN FEDERATION got electronic access to the reporting and primary documents of the company in real time.

During the tender for the choice of the contractor of Tele2 estimated examination of potential contractors, terms and the budget. On set of factors the IBS company became the only contractor on the project.

The IBS command suggested to design Data mart based on the SAP ERP system which is already used by the customer.

Proceeding from our experience, architecture of the accounting system of Tele2 and desirable terms of the project, we offered option of implementation of Data mart on classical architecture of SAP ERP with visualization of implementable functionality in SAP Fiori, data storage on SAP BW on HANA, and implementation of reports — in SAP BO, told Grigory Chety, the director of department of sales and business development in IBS

Thus, Tele2 had not to be rebuilt or to significantly update a system, to change internal processes. As a result the company did not incur expenses which would be caused by global transformation of architecture, and the full stroke of the project — from design before transfer on support — took only 7 months.

According to the results of the project of Tele2 company it was succeeded to reduce labor costs of staff of tax directorate by interaction with tax authority (FTS) on information exchange, to lower the amounts of additional accruals of taxes, penalty fee and penalties, to reduce costs for administration of requests of tax authorities, to simplify permission of disputable situations concerning application of the tax law.

The introduction in the mode of tax monitoring allows Tele2 not only to increase quality of tax administration, but also to simplify control of tax statements. It is other stage of cooperation with tax administration answering to global trends on improvement of a format of tax control. During the course of performance works consultants of IBS proved as the professionals able to solve assigned tasks in the shortest possible time and to work effectively for achievement of the general result, noted Nina Bukharina, the director of taxes in Tele2