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Longview Tax is an enterprise tax management platform from insightsoftware, acquired from Longview in 2020. It supports corporate tax teams with global provisioning, reporting, consolidation, analytics, and Pillar Two workflows.
Longview Tax centralizes corporate tax data and connects tax provisioning with the financial close. It consolidates information across legal entities and jurisdictions, then calculates current and deferred income tax provisions using entered rates, factors, permanent differences, temporary differences, and foreign exchange rates. The platform produces draft income tax disclosures and supporting schedules, while dashboards, reports, and Excel add-ins give tax professionals ways to analyze, refresh, and write back data.
The product covers global tax provisioning, effective tax rate analysis, deferred taxes, country-by-country reporting, operational transfer pricing, tax transparency, and BEPS 2.0 Pillar Two workflows. It supports IAS 12 and ASC 740 and handles complex entity structures, currencies, and reporting layers. The feature set is broad, although Capterra reviewers note a learning curve, occasional workarounds, limited interim reporting, refresh friction, and a high cost per user.
Longview Tax is aimed at corporate tax, finance, and audit teams in multinational or otherwise complex organizations rather than small businesses seeking basic return preparation. Longview stated that its broader business supported more than 100,000 users at 700 enterprise customers in more than 100 countries, but that figure is not specific to the current product. Pricing is quote-based, with no public entry price or named public tiers.
Key features
Tax provisioning
Calculates current and deferred income tax provisions by legal entity and jurisdiction and produces supporting disclosure schedules.
Real-time consolidation
Consolidates tax data across financial systems, entities, currencies, and reporting structures as new information becomes available.
Pillar Two reporting
Supports BEPS 2.0 Pillar Two reporting and compliance alongside provisioning, forecasting, and tax transparency workflows.
Excel integration
Longview Office and Excel add-ins let users export, refresh, manipulate, and write back data from Microsoft Excel.
Tax disclosures
Generates draft income tax disclosures covering domestic and foreign income, current and deferred tax, effective tax rate reconciliation, and deferred tax balances.
Transfer pricing
Provides operational transfer pricing analytics, scenario analysis, intercompany transaction management, and tax-impact optimization.
Tax analytics
Dashboards, variance analysis, customizable reports, and multidimensional reporting help teams investigate tax positions and effective tax rates.
Longview Tax pricing
Longview Tax does not publish a starting price, public plan comparison, or named self-service tiers. Buyers receive an enterprise quote based on their tax processes, entities, reporting requirements, integrations, and deployment needs. Capterra reviewers describe the price point as high and note that access may need to be limited by user cost.
| Plan | Price | What's included |
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| Enterprise | Custom quoteScope is quoted. | Corporate tax provisioning, reporting, consolidation, analytics, Excel integration, and selected tax-management capabilities. |
Free trial: No public free-trial terms are provided; the vendor offers a discovery call and tailored demonstration.
Pros & cons
Pros
- Supports both ASC 740 and IAS 12 tax provisioning in one centralized platform.
- Excel push-and-pull functionality supports familiar working papers and data refreshes.
- Combines provisioning, tax transparency, transfer pricing, and Pillar Two workflows.
- Multidimensional reporting supports analysis across entities, jurisdictions, currencies, and tax positions.
Cons
- Pricing is quote-based and reviewers describe the product as expensive on a per-user basis.
- The interface and Excel formulas can require training before they feel intuitive.
- Some users report limited interim reporting and the need for manual workarounds.
- Users report occasional workbook refresh issues and a clunky interface.
Who is Longview Tax best for?
- Multinational corporations managing tax provisions across many legal entities and jurisdictions.
- Tax teams that need ASC 740 and IAS 12 support in one operating model.
- Organizations replacing spreadsheet-heavy provisioning and Pillar Two processes.
- Finance and tax departments that rely heavily on Excel-based working papers and reporting.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Longview Tax cost?
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Longview Tax uses custom enterprise pricing and does not publish a starting price or public plan tiers. The quote reflects the organization’s entities, jurisdictions, reporting standards, integrations, and selected capabilities.
How does Longview Tax work, and how long does implementation take?
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The platform connects tax provisioning with the financial close, consolidates data by entity and jurisdiction, calculates current and deferred taxes, and produces disclosures and reports. Implementation timing is not published and depends on the organization’s reporting scope, integrations, and configuration.
How does Longview Tax compare with ONESOURCE?
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Both products target enterprise tax teams, but Longview Tax emphasizes multidimensional data management, real-time consolidation, and Excel write-back alongside provisioning. A customer evaluation cited Longview’s flexibility and global fit as advantages over more rigid or US-centric alternatives.
What does Longview Tax integrate with?
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The vendor lists Oracle E-Business Suite, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, SAP, Infor, Workday, and PeopleSoft among its integrations. Microsoft Excel is also central to the product through Longview’s Office and Excel add-ins.
Who should use Longview Tax?
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It is designed for corporate tax, finance, and audit teams managing complex tax provisioning and reporting, especially across multinational entities. It is less suited to small businesses seeking basic individual, payroll, or transaction-level tax filing.
Is Longview Tax secure and accurate?
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The product centralizes tax data, applies configured calculations by entity and jurisdiction, and produces supporting schedules. Customer evidence cites improved traceability, stronger SOX support, and fewer manual errors, but buyers should validate security controls and calculation governance during due diligence.
Sources
Facts and pricing verified on October 19, 2026. Vendors change pricing often, so confirm with Longview Tax before buying. How we research
