About us
About us
Iman Deschatres
E-commerce Tax Specialist | Winner of the #tacs Top 100 Women in Tax Tech 2024
Iman Deschatres is both a real tax expert and an entrepreneur.
She doesn’t just understand tax rules – she designs tax products with precision, partnering with the best people in the field.
After years spent on tax reform, VAT and private equity, she realised something fundamental: no existing tool connected policy, product, and people. She worked hands - on with tax specialists at the country level. She engaged with policymakers and tax authorities worldwide. She saw how every decision shaped real business flows - far beyond balance sheets.
“I’m a professional who kept asking why it is so complex, and when I couldn’t find the answer, I decided to build tools to bring simplicity.”
Iman Deschatres
E-commerce Tax Specialist | Winner of the #tacs Top 100 Women in Tax Tech 2024
Iman Deschatres is an ecommerce tax specialist. She has been deeply involved in the evolution of the tax and reporting obligations accruing to Marketplaces, and has been an avid student of the practices and business models of some of the largest marketplaces, from as early as pre-2015 and through the global introduction of advanced tax requirements of the remote seller and Marketplace Facilitator rules.
She has engaged with several marketplaces themselves, their ecommerce customers at every level of tax sophistication, and importantly, the tax authorities in numerous countries including several of the US states regarding the concept of Marketplace for tax purposes and how the remote sales, cross border, and Marketplace Facilitator rules should be applied. In developing such broad practical experience, she has a deep understanding of the challenges that each of these constituent groups is facing.
You might also overhear Iman, passionately describing Deptax - over dinner with her friends - as being similar to a made to measure ladies’ dress or men’s sports jacket that can magically keep “adapting” to you and the latest fashion trend.
A builder’s journey
Iman has always created products out of real-world problems:
✱ VATlib (2013) – a VAT calendar app built to manage obligations across the EU. Profitable for years, phased out by 2021.
✱ Taxamo Assure (2016) – co-founded with John McCarthy, shifting VAT liability for e-commerce sellers just as global digital tax rules were emerging. Her vision and product design shaped the Taxamo product up to its acquisition by Vertex.
✱ Deptax (2024) – born 15 days after leaving her job and deciding to stop doing tax, while on a flight. Designed not behind a desk, but by observing how platforms sell and where the friction lies.
“You don’t create great tax products behind a computer. You create them when you move, observe, and listen to how people actually sell. Everything starts from the sale and the customer journey.”
A builder’s journey
Iman has always created products out of real-world problems:
✱ VATlib (2013) - a VAT calendar app built to manage obligations across the EU. Profitable for years, phased out by 2021.
✱ Taxamo Assure (2016) - co-founded with John McCarthy, shifting VAT liability for e-commerce sellers just as global digital tax rules were emerging. Her vision and product design shaped the Taxamo product up to its acquisition by Vertex.
✱ Deptax (2024) - born 15 days after leaving her job and deciding to stop doing tax, while on a flight. Designed not behind a desk, but by observing how platforms sell and where the friction lies.
“You don’t create great tax products behind a computer. You create them when you move, observe, and listen to how people actually sell. Everything starts from the sale and the customer journey.”
Building
a
community
Beyond product design, Iman is also a community builder.
She brings together leading tax experts from around the world, engages with them, organizes webinars and conversations to challenge ideas and make the profession evolve.
Through her newsletter, she regularly shares insights, articles and a curated press review, helping the entire ecosystem stay ahead of the curve.