Taxano is an AI-native tax intelligence platform, founded by specialists in wealth, corporate, international, and cross-border tax — built for the fastest-changing tax geography on earth. Not a Big Four export, adapted at the edges. Engineered here, for here.
Grant Thornton, Crowe, and BDO are excellent at what they do — for the tax regimes they were built inside. Their systems, their partner incentives, and their fee models were shaped by decades in the United States and Western Europe. Asia and the Middle East get the adapted version: the same playbook, translated, arriving a cycle behind the regulation it's meant to address.
That's not a knock on their competence. It's a structural fact. A firm whose revenue depends on billable advisory hours has a weak incentive to automate the work away, and a firm headquartered in the West has a weak instinct for how fast India, the UAE, Singapore, and Switzerland are actually moving — on wealth migration, on cross-border structuring, on digital-first regulation.
Regional complexity is our home ground, not our export market. That gap is what Taxano is built to close — with a founding team that has spent its career on this side of the table, not flying in for a quarterly review.
A firm whose revenue depends on billable advisory hours has a weak incentive to automate the work away.
The thesis, in one lineNone of that wealth arrived pre-compliant. The UAE introduced its first-ever federal corporate tax in June 2023 — a regime with almost no institutional precedent behind it yet. India's individual tax-filer base crossed 9 crore returns in FY 2024-25, up from 8.5 crore the year before. Every one of these markets is compounding in complexity faster than the advisory headcount built to serve them — and 128,000 millionaires relocated globally in 2024, a record, with nowhere near enough of the receiving jurisdictions' advisory infrastructure built to absorb them.
Every domain below is led by a founder who has practiced in it, not a generalist reading up on it.
Structuring and compliance for private wealth as it moves across borders, generations, and residency status.
Provisioning, filing, and planning for operating companies across multiple, fast-moving statutory regimes.
Treaty positions, customs and trade exposure, and multi-jurisdiction structuring for businesses that don't sit inside one border.
Double-taxation exposure, transfer pricing, and structuring for capital, talent, and IP that move between our founding markets.
Long-horizon planning for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and their families — succession, residency, and asset structuring.
Precise, well-documented personal filings for individuals whose income, assets, or residency span more than one jurisdiction.
Track regulatory change as it's published across our founding jurisdictions and turn it into structured, computable rules — not a PDF someone reads next quarter.
Regulation → Structured RulesRun a client's actual structure — entity, income, residency, assets — against those rules to surface exposure and opportunity before a filing deadline forces the question.
Structure → Exposure & OpportunityAutomate the compliance motion itself — filings, documentation, deadlines — so our domain experts spend their time on judgment calls, not paperwork.
Compliance → AutomatedTaxano's founding team is drawn from practicing specialists across wealth taxation, corporate tax, international tax & trade, cross-border tax, UHNI tax planning, and personal tax — the people who've sat across the table from regulators, not just read about them.
We're not naming individuals on this site yet. That comes at launch. What's here is the shape of the team and the work it has already done — not a hiring plan.
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