15 October 2026 | Thursday | Interview
FinTech Business Asia speaks with Stefan Mladenovic, CEO and Co-Founder of Taxually, about real-time e-invoicing, indirect tax automation, API connectivity and the company’s plans to expand its platform and international reach in 2027.
Q. Taxually has launched new e-invoicing and tax calculation products as extensions of its existing platform. What customer problems were you seeing that led you to develop these products now?
E-invoicing is a growing regulatory mandate in Europe. More and more business are subject to these regulations and more and more countries are adopting. Existing companies in the market have not solved for it in a centralized fashion.
Q. Governments are moving towards real-time e-invoicing and digital reporting, with further mandates expected before the EU-wide changes in 2030. How is this shift changing the way large companies approach indirect tax technology and compliance?
With e-invoicing the focus on technology accelerates. There is no more time to wait for month end closes to fix issues. Everything has to be correct and on time all the time. With solutions like Taxually, companies have the ability to be proactive instead of reactive to tax authorities requests.
Q. The new API capabilities allow clients to connect Taxually with their existing systems and internal technology environments. How important is interoperability for multinational businesses that already rely on several tax, finance and ERP platforms?
Very important and as business increasingly rely on specialized point of solutions - one for tax, one for forecasting, one for staturory finance - the ability to connect them to each other and to central ERPs is critical. It also allows service providers customers to integrate our tools into their own workflows instead of “pushing” everyone to use our of the shelf products.
Q. Taxually reported almost 40% growth in active clients, alongside stronger traction with enterprise customers. Which markets and customer segments are driving that growth, and where do you see the biggest opportunities in 2027?
A lot of growth is coming from the digital native business. Whether it’s companies selling products online or being part of the AI boom. A lot of our new customers have also been only briefly in business but with the reach they have they also breach registration thresholds and are required to pay taxes in multiple jurisdictions. We also see a lot of opportunity in the space of service providers. There is a lot of pressure on the cost side and moving to technology is the only solution for make a step change in efficiency.
Q. Large multinational businesses can have hundreds of legal entities operating across different tax regimes. What are the biggest operational challenges in managing indirect tax at that scale, and where can automation deliver the most meaningful savings or risk reduction?
The core problem isn't complexity in any one country. It's fragmentation across all of them. A multinational with hundreds of entities is usually running indirect tax on a patchwork of ERPs, local advisers, spreadsheets and point solutions, each with its own data model and calendar. The result is that tax teams spend most of their time collecting, cleaning and reconciling data rather than managing risk.
Three challenges stand out. The first is data quality: transaction data arrives from different systems in different formats, and errors in tax codes or master data spread into every return. The second is regulatory velocity. E-invoicing and real-time reporting mandates are rolling out country by country, across France, Poland, Belgium, Germany and Spain, with ViDA coming at EU level, and each one changes how and when data has to reach the tax authority. The third is visibility. Group tax often can't see, in one place, what has been filed, where, and whether it reconciles with the ledger.
Automation pays off most at the data layer. Validating and enriching transaction data before it reaches a return removes most downstream errors. The next biggest gains come from reconciliation, meaning automatically matching filings, e-invoices and ledger data, which is now essential as authorities receive transaction-level data in near real time. Finally, a single compliance layer across all jurisdictions turns a reactive, adviser-heavy process into a controlled, auditable one.
Q. Taxually plans to deepen its international footprint and expand its technology across the compliance lifecycle in 2027. What will be the main priorities for investment, partnerships and geographic expansion over the next 12 to 18 months?
On investment, the priority is product and AI. That means deepening, our unified e-invoicing and tax calculation platform, which already covers 39 countries, and applying AI to the manual work that still dominates compliance, such as data validation, exception handling and reconciliation.On partnerships, we'll keep building our channel with accounting and advisory firms, including the Big 4, where our technology sits underneath their advisory services. We also want to grow as infrastructure for ERP, procurement and tax technology platforms that need dependable global compliance without building it themselves.
Geographically, expansion will follow the mandates. We'll focus on markets where e-invoicing and real-time reporting go live in the next 18 months, deepen coverage in Latin America [e.g. Brazil, Mexico], and grow our presence with US-headquartered businesses selling into Europe and beyond.
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