# APAC Tax Lead

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

We're hiring our first dedicated international tax professional in Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore. You'll be a key member of Anthropic's tax team, reporting to our Head of International Tax Operations / Business Advisory and working closely with tax colleagues in Dublin and our San Francisco headquarters.

As APAC Tax Lead, you'll own direct tax compliance and advisory across our Asia-Pacific entities and operations (Japan, Korea, India, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan) and help build tax infrastructure to support Anthropic's rapid international expansion.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead APAC direct tax compliance, working with external advisors (KPMG, PwC, Deloitte) to ensure timely and accurate filings across all jurisdictions

- Support transfer pricing documentation and intercompany transactions for APAC entities, including cost-plus arrangements and intercompany service agreements

- Manage withholding tax positions and treaty relief on cross-border flows, including customer receipts and vendor payments

- Advise on permanent establishment risks, entity structuring, and operational tax considerations as Anthropic expands APAC commercial and infrastructure activities

- Support the tax side of regional infrastructure expansion, including data center, colocation, and subsea cable arrangements and new entity formations

- Partner with indirect tax personnel on VAT/GST and consumption tax matters to align on tax strategy and overall compliance requirements

- Partner with Finance, Legal, and People teams on payroll taxes, equity compensation, and employee mobility matters

- Build relationships with local tax authorities and manage any inquiries or audits

- Contribute to global tax projects including public company readiness, SOX compliance, and tax technology implementations

- Working with indirect tax team on advisory and compliance and audit assistance

Minimum qualifications:

- Strong technical knowledge of corporate tax in one or more major APAC jurisdictions and cross-border tax issues across the region

- Deep experience with transfer pricing documentation, intercompany agreements, and withholding tax and treaty analysis

- CPA, CA, CTA, or equivalent professional qualification

- Excellent communication skills and ability to work across time zones with US and European colleagues

- Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and can build processes from the ground up

Preferred qualifications:

- 12+ years of international tax experience, ideally with a mix of Big 4/advisory and in-house roles

- Exposure to technology or high-growth company tax matters

- Experience with the tax aspects of data center or infrastructure buildouts

- Knowledge of Pillar Two/global minimum tax rules and digital services taxes

- Experience with Indian direct tax matters, including permanent establishment and withholding tax issues

- Experience supporting IPO readiness or public company tax compliance

- Regional language skills

- Experience with systems buildout or automation

## Skills

### Required
- corporate tax
- transfer pricing
- withholding tax
- treaty analysis
- tax compliance
- tax advisory

### Nice to have
- international tax
- Big 4/advisory
- in-house roles
- technology tax
- data center tax
- infrastructure buildouts
- Pillar Two/global minimum tax rules
- digital services taxes
- Indian direct tax matters
- IPO readiness
- public company tax compliance
- systems buildout
- automation

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