From Cost Centre to Enabler: How Tax Is Reshaping the GCC Playbook

As India’s global capability centres move from back-office support to hubs for product, engineering and analytics, their tax models are struggling to keep pace. Transfer pricing arrangements set years ago often no longer reflect where decisions are made or which risks are managed. Tax teams, meanwhile, are pulled in only after contracts are signed and invoices are paid, leaving them to reconstruct compliance at month-end.