APAC Tax Lead

Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Were hiring our first dedicated international tax professional in Asia-Pacific based in Singapore. Youll be a key member of Anthropics 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 youll 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 Anthropics rapid international expansion.

• 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

• 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

• 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

Minimum education: Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education training and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework training or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

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