Our Services

Comprehensive Services

Ryan advises clients on a comprehensive suite of VAT and tax automation services through locations across Europe and North America. We deploy a proven process and methodology to ensure that our clients pay only the tax they owe by identifying, evaluating, and preparing claims across all 27 European Union member states, as well as additional jurisdictions. We are internationally recognized for our innovative approach to searching out and securing every available opportunity to recover overpaid taxes, as well as minimizing future tax liabilities through prospective performance solutions.  Our services include:

VAT Advisory

Ryan advises companies in the field of VAT and real estate transfer tax. Our portfolio includes clients operating in the property, financial, telecommunications, publishing, non-profit, international, and national trade sectors, and more. We also support general tax law firms, accountancy firms, and solicitors, in case of VAT audits or other questions that require in-depth VAT knowledge. In addition to our advisory services on various issues, we also perform VAT quick scans, provide support when facing VAT audits from the tax authorities, offer VAT training, litigate appeal procedures, and assist with due diligence investigations.

VAT Compliance

Ryan deploys a team of specialists that assist clients in filing international VAT returns and EC declarations, intrastate reports, and the submission of foreign VAT reclaims. By coordinating international VAT compliance processes, we ensure timely reporting and reviewed filings, and can relieve our clients of the administrative process of filing returns with the tax authorities. We provide a single contact who will monitor due dates, prepare and submit returns, and address questions raised by the authorities. We are committed to assisting your organization in an efficient and reliable manner and will ensure that your VAT compliance is handled timely and accurately.

VAT Recovery

Leveraging highly experienced VAT consultants and cutting-edge technology, Ryan offers a comprehensive suite of VAT recovery services to protect profitability and shareholder value. We scour records and processes for VAT reduction and savings opportunities, providing a confidential reporting package that includes full details of all savings, exposure identification, process improvement opportunities, and an audit trail to source documents. Our complete, end-to-end review helps clients identify their VAT liabilities and ensure that their systems and processes are efficient and their tax determinations and reporting are accurate. Our unique compensation model for VAT recovery projects is contingent on the tax savings that we deliver our clients.  This mitigates client risk and focuses our efforts on delivering significant tax savings and superior results. We don’t simply review our clients’ records for tax reduction and tax saving opportunities, we scour them. As a result, we are very thorough, highly efficient, and extremely effective.

VAT Automation

Ryan’s international VAT practice dramatically improves efficiency and profitability through the use of innovative, technology-enabled tax automation solutions, including the advanced configuration or implementation of our clients’ business systems. Leveraging years of tax technology expertise, we provide a client roadmap for overall tax function performance as it relates to people, processes, and technology. Our strategic relationship with every major business systems and tax engine software vendor ensures that we recommend and implement the most effective automation solution for our clients’ technology environment and business requirements.

Tax Control Framework

Ryan’s VAT Tax Control Framework (TCF) enables companies to accurately and efficiently manage these risks and stay in control.  We custom develop a VAT module for our client’s TCF that uniquely fits the organization, and we ensure that it is intuitive, user-friendly, and not overly complex.  We help eliminate unpleasant surprises, such as large VAT assessments after an audit, as much as possible by implementing a VAT module in the TCF. Because VAT is ruled by an ERP system and business processes in a large extent, it is logical that the TCF would also manage the risks associated with VAT.  A VAT module in your company’s TCF will make sure that anyone responsible for VAT within your organization can measure and prove control. Our profound knowledge of information technology solutions for capturing controls will provide outstanding value and proven best practices for development of your TCF.

Real Estate Transfer Tax

Ryan provides strategic advice on real estate transactions and the relating consequences from a real estate transfer tax perspective. Our professionals have many years of experience advising clients in the Netherlands on real estate transactions to minimize transfer tax resulting from a merger, acquisition, or restructuring.  We provide support during tax audits and perform due diligence reviews on the area of real estate transfer tax. We also support and handle litigation in domestic courts and give second opinions.

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