About the survey
• KPMG International’s global survey of people in charge of tax policy and
operations of companies worldwide is one of the largest surveys of its kind.
• Iterations of the survey have been conducted regularly since 2006, charting
the evolution of leading tax departments and identifying operational
benchmarks for high-performing tax teams.
• For the 2012 survey, 1,150 heads of tax in 22 countries (50 respondents in
21 countries and 100 in the US) took part in blind telephone surveys to share
their opinions on how tax departments are adapting to current challenges.
About 700 of respondent companies are Fortune 500, Forbes 2000 or
equivalent.
• To gain more clarity on the telephone survey results, additional in-depth
interviews were conducted with several clients of KPMG member firms
and tax professionals worldwide