Newsletter #011 – Value Added Tech

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Happy April - welcome to the 11th edition of Value Added Tech!

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Please contact me directly via mail or LinkedIn if you would like to read about a particular topic, have a (secret) tip, want to publish your own TaxTech-related article or just want to get in touch.

I have some exciting news, tips, links, reads and jobs for you. Just follow along:

⚡️ Reduced News

My section to keep you up to date. This time: job changes, funding round, bankruptcy and updates in all their forms.

🚀 Shooting Stars

Where I introduce you to (new) startups, hidden champions and/or new TaxTech tools: heyStefan!, KryptoTax and verfahrensdokumentation pro.

🎙️ Tax Speaking

The new section for sound frequencies and moving images: TaxTech podcasts. With Easybill, ExpressSteuer, tax product development and Circula.

👩‍💻 TaxTech Jobs

As always: some new TaxTech jobs. A particularly exciting one from sevDesk. This one is for all the product managers out there who love working with tax advisors. Also: Rauva and RIDE have some cool job openings. Read more below.

☕️ Your Weekly Dose

Lots to read with articles from Bloomberg, The Atlantic, TIME and some German classics. All very interesting. All TaxTech. 100%.

📠 Old News

Our last newsletter - in case you missed it 👀

Happy reading,

Dennis from TaxTech News 💜

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Reduced News

AI makes it possible: EY and WTS create new TaxTech positions (🇩🇪) | Götz Kümmerle, JUVE Steuermarkt (27.03.2024)

1. KEEYNS Secures €10M investment to fuel rapid expansion (🇳🇱) | KEEYNS (25.03.2024)

   
   

2. "Insolvency within insolvency": there's probably nothing left to be gained from Expresssteuer (🇩🇪) | Charlotte Rick, Finance Forward (12.03.2024)

   
   

3. New website @ lexoffice (🇩🇪) | lexoffice (March 2024)

   
   

4. Latest product updates @ Agicap (🇫🇷) | Sebastian Beyet, LinkedIn (March 2024)

   
   

5. New update of the ChatGPT guide (🇩🇪) | Stefan Groß, LinkedIn (March 2024)

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Shooting Stars

heyStefan! (🇩🇪)

Find your dream job as a tax expert now

KryptoTax (🇩🇪)

The ChatBot answers your questions about the taxation of cryptocurrencies

verfahrensdokumentation pro (🇩🇪)

From professionals for professionals I Software for procedural documentation and process analysis

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Tax Speaking

🎙️ #001
Startup Insider (🇩🇪)
Private equity as an opportunity for startups. Lea Partners acquires Easybill - Interview with CEO Andreas Seifert

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Taxdoo (🇩🇪)
A chat with Jens Henke - #2 The ExpressSteuer case: Does TaxTech need regulation?

📺 #003
NWB Verlag: ANSTEUERN (🇩🇪)
#13 - Next step: Product developer

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Finance Forward (🇩🇪)
FinanceFWD #231 with Circula founder Nikolai Skatchkov

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TaxTech Jobs

Rauva 🇵🇹 Accountant

• RIDE 🇩🇪 Steuerfachangestellter

• sevDesk 🇩🇪 (Senior) Product Manager - Tax Advisors

For the full overview of all job opportunities, click here.

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Your Weekly Dose

March 28th, 2024
april, LinkedIn

AI & taxes: How april’s chatbot stood up against big players (🇺🇸)

We put aprilBot, our proprietary AI chatbot trained on expert-written content, to the test after the The Washington Post published an article entitled "TurboTax and H&R Block now use AI for tax advice. It’s awful." written by Geoffrey Fowler

March 26th, 2024
Andrew R. Chow, TIME

Can AI Help You Do Your Taxes? (🇺🇸)

March 25th, 2024
Dr. Roger Gothmann, Taxdoo

Alignment: the secret strategy of generative AI (in tax law)? (🇩🇪)

We are only at the beginning of a new age - the age of efficiency through technology - and we should approach it with courage and vigour. We should always do this with an alert and critical mind. To do this, however, we also need fundamental regulation of key technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence

March 22nd, 2024
Travis Thompson, Bloomberg Tax

Generative AI Will Make Tax Firms More Efficient and Profitable (🇺🇸)

Sideman & Bancroft’s Travis Thompson says generative AI will allow tax practices to work on more cases at lower costs and could enable smaller firms to compete more with larger ones

March 22nd, 2024
Carola Heine, lexoffice

The lexoffice partner ecosystem (🇩🇪)

In the first part of our series, we talk to lexoffice Product Owner Frank Steinberg about the now more than 100 technology partners and their development

March 20th, 2024
Saahil Desai, The Atlantic

The IRS Finally Has an Answer to TurboTax (🇺🇸)

Against all odds, the government has created an actually good piece of technology

March 14th, 2024
Jan Wittenbrink, Handelsblatt

How tax firms are using AI technologies for themselves (🇩🇪)

Larger tax firms in particular are making good progress with digitalisation. AI technologies can ensure greater efficiency - and they also help in the competition for young professionals

March 10th, 2024
finedataproducts

Can GPT Optimize My Taxes? (🇺🇸)

We made a GPT interface to an open-source US tax scenarios library, and it is at times pretty good, but asks a lot of the user

February 29th, 2024
Silvia Weinzierl, STB Web

Artificial intelligence: a paradigm shift in tax consulting? (🇩🇪)

The potential applications of AI in tax consultancy promise not only to increase efficiency, but also to process tax matters more precisely and quickly. The author presents the practical fields of application for the industry and provides an outlook on the possibilities and limitations

#2, 2024
Sebastian Pollmanns, STATUS 1

Artificial Intelligence in Tax Consulting - More Than Just ChatGPT and Copilot (🇩🇪 | .pdf)

The discussion about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the tax sector has so far focussed on the provision of consultancy services. However, these usually only account for a small proportion of a law firm's turnover. The impact that new AI-supported tools will have on the degree of automation of recurring activities is often overlooked. It is therefore crucial to focus on the question of how AI will transform the core business and what consequences the optimisation race that is already underway will have on the competitive balance

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Old News

Newsletter #012 — Value Added Tech

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