Tax and business alignment: Progress on evolving technology

Beyond the sci-fi movies, what is the current state of artificial intelligence and what are its applications for the tax department? Is it an opportunity for the future, or are there real use cases that can help achieve efficiencies and data gains today? In this episode, Deloitte Tax AI and Analytics leader Beth Mueller discusses what AI can look like for tax and how to start developing practical plans for implementation.

COVID-19 is reshaping our world and the tax technology landscape is no exception. How are tax departments faring under the rapid shift to remote, virtual work? And what opportunities does this present for technology implementation? In this episode, Deloitte Tax LLP partner and leader of the myInsight client edition platform, David Landers discusses how tax departments are quickly adapting and rising to new challenges.

With technology revolutionizing mundane tax processes like invoicing and reporting, many multinationals, the OECD and governments are trying to stay in lock step to create and adapt to new VAT standards. In this episode, Deloitte's own Ronnie Dassen, Global Indirect Tax lead, offers key insights into how these new digital tools are shaping the current VAT space. In addition, he explores how companies are shifting to hybrid tax operating models with both in-house and third-party resources.

After recent changes to the indirect tax landscape in the United States, driven by Wayfair and marketplace legislation, companies have faced a variety of technology challenges. In this episode, Lindsay McAfee, Deloitte multistate tax senior manager, and Holly Hamby, tax management consulting managing director, discuss what these changes really mean for companies and how they're responding to new requirements. In addition, they explore what's next for companies and the role technology and automation can play to increase efficiency.

Tax departments have been so immersed in compliance and reporting that they have had trouble aligning with their business's priority of using tax technologies to see what's around the corner. In this episode, Deloitte Tax LLP partner Jen Knickerbocker discusses tax departments' progress in partnering with the business, as reported in interviews with CFOs and CAOs. In addition, she describes three areas in which tax could provide even more value to the business.

Data has the power to enable automation and yield new tax insights. But how can tax departments leverage data management to improve processes and outcomes? And what role does emerging tax technology play? In this tax podcast, Deloitte Tax LLP partners Emily VanVleet and Brad Ford take a closer look at using data to fuel tax transformation and discuss a three-step data management strategy that can help departments boost efficiency and drive new ways of working.

Data wrangling tools have the potential to play a huge role in tax transformation—but what are the best ways to use them? And how can these tools work alongside traditional methods? In this tax podcast, Deloitte Tax LLP partners Emily VanVleet and RJ Littleton, along with managing director Craig Darrah, discuss what data wrangling is, how to build these tools out, and what it takes to deploy a new tax technology.

With heightened reporting expectations from tax authorities and increasing demand for business insight from C-suites, real-time data is a critical tax technology need. Deloitte Tax LLP partners Emily VanVleet and Ravi Gupta discuss on our latest tax podcast how cloud ERP migration presents an opportunity to tailor data for greater tax insights, focusing in this podcast, as it relates to Oracle's new cloud ERP platform. "Once you have real-time data—once you have clean, consumable data—you're saving a lot of time in your tax department in manipulating, validating the data and putting those hours in value-added activities." –Ravi Gupta

The next generation of ERP platforms is here. Deloitte Tax LLP partner Emily VanVleet and Deloitte Global SAP Tax Alliance leader and Deloitte Tax LLP Partner Scott Shafer break down the current and future state of tax functionality in the SAP environment, and why there's a potential opportunity for tax to make its mark on the upcoming migration.

The tax department of today will likely be unrecognizable tomorrow. Deloitte Tax LLP partner Emily VanVleet and Deloitte Canada senior manager Jeff Butt explore the intersection of talent and technology and how successfully bringing them together is essential for the future.