After a lifetime devoted to tax administration, I often find myself wondering what I really learned from it. During years, I would have answered without hesitation: taxes, procedures, auditing, technology, institutional organization, and international cooperation. Today I realized that all those things were important, but they were not the true…
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Tax administrations have a lot of data. And, fortunately, much of it is good and trusted data. The challenge is connecting it. And if there is an international component, too often, information about a business or legal entity becomes harder to connect once we cross a border. A tax administration…
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The pilots allow to determine if AI improves a tax task compared to the current process, with acceptable benefits, costs and risks. Key ideas: * The value of AI in tax administrations depends on the problem it solves and whether it offers better results than the current process, with…
More than twenty years have passed since it has existed in the commercial world an electronic file which is accepted both by companies and tax administrations and can record information about commercial transactions. Despite the time passed since that, and the certainties that many have on the subject, in my…
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Modernisation is a term that goes beyond the recognition of changes in political, economic and social systems, representing a commitment to the future. Modernisation is a project of modernity based on ideology, developments, progress and logic. As an extension of the capitalist mode of production across different places, it is…
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Improving compliance among taxpayers is a major concern for governments around the world. Tax administrations globally are at a pivotal moment, as modern technology reshapes the tax ecosystem and elevates the importance of taxpayer support service in promoting compliance. Effective taxpayer support service is the cornerstone of a functional and…
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