Would you trust an AI system to prepare your taxes if it could not reliably tell HMRC guidance from information published by the IRS?

In this episode of AI at Work, I speak with Arjun Kumar, cofounder of Taxd, about AI tax automation, digital tax filing, and the continuing role of human judgment in regulated financial services.

Arjun began his career at PwC after joining through a school-leaver program. While working in expat tax, he and his cofounder saw how professional services firms often relied on offshoring and annual cost reductions rather than sustained investment in technology. Their attempt to promote a different approach internally eventually led them to create Taxd during the pandemic.

We discuss Arjun’s prediction that routine tax compliance will become increasingly autonomous. When the required data already exists  ...