Doug McHoney (PwC's US International Tax Services Leader) is live at the Westminster Studios with John McDonald (Quantitative Solutions & Technologies Managing Director) to discuss the role of technology in tax. Doug and John cover, among other topics: the cross section of computer science and tax; the economics of the professional services industry; how TCJA has made taxation much more complex; the digital evolution of tax research; the power of definitions and testing to retain information; the usefulness of a graph data structure in tax; how centralized rules engines are superior to spreadsheets; the power of visualizations; the future of probability analysis in taxation, and the need for change management.
Timestamps:
4:00 Why did John pursue a new career in tax technology?
9:00 What are some of the driving forces behind increased tax complexity?
13:00 How is new technology making modeling more efficient?
15:30 How can technology improve the way tax advisors conduct research?
21:00 How technology can play a role in continuous learning and education?
27:00 What is the future of quantitative analysis in tax?
33:00 What are the benefits of scale to using technology in tax?
38:00 What is the future of qualitative analysis in tax?
41:30 What role can predictive law software have in the future?