Indirect Tax Technology Transformation Lead

Fonoa Product updates August 2026: Knowledge, Validate & E-invoicing | Fonoa | blog. Back to blog Product updates Fonoa Product updates: introducing Knowledge and new features across Validate and E-invoicing. Fonoa's latest releases include the new AI-powered Fonoa Knowledge, Instant Validate expansion in France, Germany and Spain, and E-invoicing capabilities in Singapore and Romania. Rob van der Woude Chief Tax Officer Last update Aug 13, 2026 Indirect tax doesn't hold still. Mandates phase in, thresholds shift, and the rules a business follows this quarter can look different by next quarter. Staying compliant means working with infrastructure that keeps pace with those changes instead of falling behind them. That's why Fonoa ship updates continuously rather than saving them for one big release. Here's some of the key updates that shipped in July 2026 across Knowledge, Validate, and E-invoicing. Introducing Fonoa Knowledge. If you missed it, Fonoa recently launched Fonoa Knowledge, an enterprise-grade AI tax monitoring solution built to give tax and finance teams fast, sourced answers to indirect tax questions instead of hours spent digging through regulations and guidance documents. You can read the full story behind why Fonoa built it and how it works in its launch article. Instant Validate expands to France, Germany, and Spain. Instant Validate now delivers sub-second, high-uptime VAT number validation in three more major EU markets: France, Germany, and Spain. VAT number validation needs to keep up with checkout and onboarding, and government databases like VIES aren't always built for that. They can be slow or temporarily unavailable, which is a real risk for any workflow that depends on a fast, reliable answer. Instant Validate now covers France, Germany, and Spain with sub-second response times, backed by Fonoa's own pre-validated data rather than a live call to a government system. The result is a validation check that holds up during high-volume checkout and onboarding, without the uptime risk of relying on a third-party database. Coverage is for business entities; personal TIN validation isn't supported. E-invoicing coverage expands to Singapore and Romania. To support the ever-growing e-invoicing mandates across the world, Fonoa is now an accredited Access Point in Singapore and supports accounts payable in Romania. Singapore: Fonoa is now an accredited Peppol Access Point. Fonoa has been accredited as an InvoiceNow Access Point, giving businesses a direct integration to IRAS through the Peppol network using the PINT-SG standard. The connection covers both accounts receivable and accounts payable, so GST-registered businesses can send and receive e-invoices through Fonoa as Singapore's InvoiceNow mandate continues to phase in. Romania: accounts payable support closes the compliance loop. Romania's e-invoicing mandate has required businesses to clear invoices through ANAF since 2024, and Fonoa has supported the accounts receivable side of that from the start. Now the accounts payable side is covered too. Tenants can fetch incoming invoices from ANAF, ingest them in UBL or CII format, and submit business responses, so buyers aren't left managing incoming compliance manually or risking non-deductible VAT on invoices that fall through the cracks. What these product updates mean for indirect tax teams. Each of these updates solves a specific problem indirect tax and finance teams run into: adjusted transactions that need to stay accurate after the sale, jurisdictions that require broader filing coverage, validation checks that need to be fast and reliable, and e-invoicing mandates that cover both sides of a transaction. Fonoa'll keep shipping updates like these as the regulatory landscape moves, so your team can stay ahead of it rather than reacting to it. Fonoa is the Tax Operating System for autonomous tax. AI that tracks every rule, acts on every obligation, and proves every decision, built on modular infrastructure to automate the entire tax lifecycle. Speak with its team to learn more. What's covered Learn about related Fonoa solutions Rob van der Woude. Chief Tax Officer Fonoa's Chief Tax Officer, former Head of International Tax at Uber, with extensive tech consulting experience in US and EMEA. Based in Bucharest & Amsterdam. View LinkedIn Related resources. Product updates August 13, 2026 Regulatory updates August 13, 2026 Regulatory updates August 5, 2026 The future of tax is autonomous. See it in action. What's new. Fonoa Technologies Ltd Registered in Ireland. Company Number: 677236 Registered Office: 6th Floor, South Bank House, Barrow Street, Dublin D04 TR29 VAT Number: IE3717232WH

AI for serious people: Fonoa's $110m Series C and the acquisition of PwC's Indirect Tax Edge. Logan Roy said it best: "I love you, but you are not serious people." I have been thinking about that line a lot lately, because it captures something happening across enterprise software right now. The frontier labs have turned everyone into a builder. You can vibe-code a chatbot that estimates your VAT from a single receipt before your coffee gets cold. That is genuinely wonderful. It is also not what the world's largest companies need. Enterprise software remains stubbornly hard. Building an end-to-end system of record across every jurisdiction, with rules that change quarterly and regulators who can interrogate your audit trail years later, is a different kind of problem entirely. You cannot prompt-engineer your way through a cross-border tax obligation for Uber. So while everyone deserves AI, some industries need AI built for serious people. Tax is one of those industries. And Fonoa is the team building it. A quick framework. In a piece I wrote recently, I argued that the value of humans lives at the intersection of context and trust. The higher the requirement for either, the harder it is to automate. Tax sits squarely in the upper-right quadrant of that map: deep context (every jurisdiction is different, every client's setup is unique, and the rules are a moving target) and high trust (get it wrong and you face penalties, audits, reputational damage). This is not a territory where a thin AI layer on top of a spreadsheet survives. It demands a purpose-built operating system with AI woven into every layer, and humans making the calls that matter. That is exactly what Davor Tremac and his co-founders have spent years building. They saw this problem from inside Uber, one of the most operationally complex global businesses ever built, and they have been constructing the platform that companies at that scale actually need: tax determination across 190+ jurisdictions, tax ID validation in 100+ countries, e-invoicing for millions of sellers, and now returns and compliance reporting on the same platform. Fonoa has just announced its $110 million Series C, led by Headline, with Eurazeo and Forestay joining as new investors. We at Dawn are reinvesting alongside our friends at Index, Coatue, and OMERS. But the round is only half the story. The second announcement changes the game entirely. Fonoa is acquiring Indirect Tax Edge from PwC. Edge powers indirect tax compliance for global enterprises: reporting, filing, analytics. Fonoa will integrate it with its own platform and AI layer, while PwC continues to deliver its tax consulting and services on top of it. Read that again. One of the Big Four chose Fonoa as the right team to build and scale its tax technology. A firm of that calibre does not make that call lightly. Combined, Fonoa and Edge cover the full indirect tax lifecycle on a single data model. Determination, invoicing, returns, compliance. From start to finish, with AI agents monitoring obligations, populating returns, catching anomalies and assembling audit packs in seconds. The system does the work. Humans make the calls. This is a huge moment, but it is still day zero. Tax is one of the last great financial systems without a true system of record. The other functions of finance found their operating systems years ago. Tax has been waiting. The shift from fragmented point solutions to a unified, AI-native platform is only beginning, and with this round and this acquisition, Fonoa is positioned to lead it end-to-end. We first invested in Fonoa's Series B and have watched the team grow from a tax ID validation product into the most complete indirect tax platform for global enterprises. Uber, Netflix, Canva, Booking.com, Nebius. The customer list tells you everything about who trusts this team with their most complex compliance needs. Serious people. Serious product. Day zero. To Davor, Filip, and everyone at Fonoa: congratulations.