Taxano wasn't started by technologists who decided tax looked interesting. It was started by tax specialists who decided the tools they were working with weren't good enough for the region they practiced in — and who happened to be building in the one country producing more of the engineers who could fix that than anywhere else on earth.
Mission — give Asia and the Middle East a tax platform engineered for their own pace and complexity, not one adapted from somewhere else.
Vision — become the tax intelligence layer underneath how capital, talent, and wealth actually move through Asia and the Middle East.
Every founding domain — wealth, corporate, international, cross-border, UHNI, personal — is led by someone who has sat across the table from a regulator, not read about one.
Our 14 founding markets aren't places we'll "expand into" later with a translated product. They're where the platform is designed from day one.
AI does the reading, the modeling, and the filing motion. The specialists decide what it means for a specific client, structure, and jurisdiction.
We're not naming individual founders on this site yet — that comes at launch — but nothing above is aspirational. It describes people already doing this work.
Every advisory firm in this category talks about "leveraging technology." Very few of them are headquartered where the technologists actually are. Building in Kolkata isn't a cost-saving decision — it's proximity to the largest, least-tapped pool of engineering and applied-AI talent in the world, sitting one flight from the wealth and compliance complexity of the Gulf.
Assembling the founding team and building the platform's first regulatory models across all 14 founding markets at once — not one at a time.
Stand up live compliance and advisory coverage run out of Kolkata and Dubai, serving all 14 founding markets from day one.
Build out domain leads actually resident in each founding market, not just coverage delivered remotely from the two hubs.
Extend into new jurisdictions that clear our three-part criteria — the same discipline that earned these 14 their place.
Kolkata is our headquarters — the base for our founding team and our engineering, and proof that world-class tax and technology talent doesn't need to sit in a Western capital to build for one.
Dubai is our global HQ — our gateway to the GCC, and the base from which we'll run our UAE and wider Middle East coverage.