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Niall Kiernan

Senior director of product management for ecommerce and marketplaces Vertex Inc

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Features

Sponsored by Vertex Inc

Is tech changing the face of the tax department as we know it?

Tax has developed a reputation over the years for being a serious and rather joyless profession, partly due to decades of tax professionals being portrayed as men in suits with piles of paperwork in the mainstream movies and TV shows of the late nineties and early noughties, writes Niall Kiernan, senior director of product management for ecommerce and marketplaces at Vertex. Today, however, the adoption of new, emerging technologies, paired with significant changes to traditional workplaces and cultures, has given rise to a new ‘face’ for the industry. Tax is heading in a new direction, and it is being led there by ‘the tax technologist’.

Niall Kiernan, July 17 2023
Features

Sponsored by Vertex Inc

Taxing times for SaaS businesses

Factors such as a saturated market and challenging economic headwinds are threatening to bring an end to the SaaS ‘sugar rush’. Niall Kiernan of Vertex considers how businesses in this sector can prepare.

Niall Kiernan, May 03 2023
Local Insights

Sponsored by Vertex Inc

Four ways marketplaces can use tax calculation as a differentiator

Vertex’s Niall Kiernan highlights four potential game-changers for marketplaces that want to get a grip of their tax calculation.

Niall Kiernan, March 14 2023