Happy 2024 🍾 Value Added Tech | Newsletter #008

Value Added Tech

Your fortnightly TaxTech newsletter

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Happy weekend and happy New Year! Welcome to the eighth edition of Value Added Tech!

After more than three months in 2023, we are very happy to welcome you to 2024 with even more news on the topic we are all here for: TaxTech 💜

🥂 Recap

Since the launch of TaxTech News in September last year, TaxTech News has achieved a lot and we are very pleased with all your interest and support:

• TaxTech News has continuously delivered the fortnightly newsletter Value Added Tech

• TaxTech News has a new look. Have a look at TaxTech.news

• TaxTech News reaches over 150 TaxTech professionals on LinkedIn. Join us there for the latest news from the TaxTech sector!

• TaxTech News has launched the new TaxTech Talk interview series. Our second interview will be published tomorrow!

📰 TaxTech News

This week we look back at our interview with DivTax co-founder Nicolas Oldag, the situation at ExpressSteuer, Bitpanda, our TaxTech Mix from December 2023 and the launch of Mecena. See these articles below.

Looking ahead, tomorrow morning sees the launch of our second TaxTech Talk interview with WorkMade founder Nick Simpson. WorkMade is a TaxTech aimed at freelancers from the US, which only launched at the end of last year with over seven million dollars in funding. The mission: Forget your taxes forever.

⚡️ Reduced News

Catch up on the latest news from Robin AI, VEDA, eClear, Hnry and Accountable.

☕️ Your Weekly Dose

Some interesting reading here: Prompt Engineering, RIDE Capital, Tax Recruitment and Tax Avoidance.

🚀 Beyond PoC

We are European again with Austrian Blockpit, Dutch LEXGEN and German project B.

🧑🏻‍💻 TaxTech Jobs

Last but not least: WorkMade is looking for a Software Engineer (🇺🇸), RIDE Capital is looking for a Tax Advisor and a Product Manager and Taxdoo needs a User Researcher. Have a look at the end of this newsletter.

Thanks and happy reading,

Dennis from TaxTech News

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TaxTech News

SUN, DEC 17

TaxTech Talk with Nicolas Oldag from DivTax | "Our ambitions go beyond individual users"

DivTax is a new TaxTech that aims to help private investors easily reclaim their non-German withholding taxes. Based in Hamburg, the team behind DivTax is currently ramping up its efforts to get its

TUE, DEC 19

Hamburg-based ExpressSteuer, funded with more than 29 million euro, has become insolvent

THU, DEC 14

Thanks to updated law, Bitpanda offers to automatically deduct taxes from crypto in Austria

TUE, DEC 12

TaxTech Mix | Kontist releases Complete, CuratedAI's big update, Taxy.io improves AI bot, lexoffice renews receipt entry

SUN, DEC 10

Mecena officially launches banking for creators in Europe

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Reduced News

London-based Robin AI snaps €24 million Series B to super charge the legal sector with AI (🇬🇧) | EU-Startups.com, Stefano de Marzo (January 3rd, 2024)

1. London-based Investcorp acquires German payroll-as-a-service provider VEDA (🇬🇧) | EU-Startups.com, Stefano de Marzo (January 2nd, 2024)

   
   

2. eClear (VAT and customs compliance) raises new funding of 2.500.000 euro in new Series B (🇬🇧) | Crunchbase (December 14th, 2023)

   
   

3. Australian- and NZ-based Hnry announces integration with BlossomApp (🇬🇧) | Hnry (December 2023)

   
   

4. Belgian and German bookkeeping and tax tool for freelancers Accountable has now over 40.000 users (🇬🇧) |LinkedIn, Nicolas Quarré (December 2023)

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Your Weekly Dose

January 7th, 2024
Stefan Groß, LinkedIn

Will the prompt engineer be out of a job soon? (🇩🇪)

January 4th, 2024
Götz Kümmerle, JUVE Steuermarkt

Tax recruitment case of concern: job adverts, headhunters and activesourcing do not deliver (🇩🇪)

🤖 | Traditional methods of recruiting personnel often lead to a dead end, as revealed by a JUVE Steuermarkt investigation into Big Four, Next Six, MDP, and tax firms, indicating that advertisements and headhunters no longer yield the same response from tax experts as in previous years, signaling a paradigm shift in personnel recruitment

December 19th, 2023
John Stanley Hunter, Finance Forward

Dodgy property deals - RIDE Capital in trouble with investors (🇩🇪)

🤖 | The fintech company RIDE Capital establishes and manages asset-managing GmbHs (limited liability companies) for a wealthy target group, while the founding team, in the background, conducted real estate deals through the company, facing complications due to issues arising from a significantly problematic deal, causing trouble with investors

December 4th, 2023
Benjamin Alarie from Blue J, Tax Notes Federal

AI and the Future of Tax Avoidance (🇬🇧) [on LinkedIn]

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Beyond PoC

Blockpit (🇦🇹)

Track crypto investments, capitalize on opportunities, outsmart your taxes

LEXGEN (🇳🇱)

Transforming lives of professionals by creating the most value as the best and most innovative provider of generative A.I. for consulting professionals in the Netherlands

project B (🇩🇪)

On a mission to unf*ck payroll. Let's together defeat bureaucratic nightmare to allow more innovation in Germany

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TaxTech Jobs

WorkMade 🇺🇸 Senior Backend Engineer

• RIDE Capital 🇩🇪 Steuerberater/Tax Consultant

• RIDE Capital 🇩🇪 Senior Product Manager

• Taxdoo 🇩🇪 User Researcher

For the full overview of our European TaxTech Jobs board - covering Tax, Product and Tech - click the purple button 👇🏻

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The End

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You can expect the 9th edition of Value Added Tech with more news about the TaxTech sector on January 21st, 2024.

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