29.04.2024

Newsletter #012 — Value Added Tech

Hey 👋

Happy Monday - welcome to the 12th edition of Value Added Tech! I have some exciting news, tips, links, reads and jobs for you. Just follow along:

📰 TaxTech News

My very own articles about the latest news. This month: Covering Taxefy, Blockpit and TaxBit.

⚡️ Reduced News

My section to keep you up to date in the TaxTech world with the latest. Condensed to the minimum. There are eleven news stories waiting for you.

🚀 Shooting Stars

Where I introduce you to (new) startups, hidden champions and/or new TaxTech tools. This month: Some US-based tools for the self-employed and, most notably, Plutus, helping German UGs/GmbHs with their bookkeeping.

🎙️ Tax Speaking

The section for sound frequencies and moving images: TaxTech podcasts and videos with CNBC and Taxdoo.

👩‍💻 TaxTech Jobs

As always: some new TaxTech jobs with opportunities at Candis, RIDE, sevDesk and Taxdoo. Read more below.

☕️ Your Weekly Dose

Lots to read. Long-form articles. All TaxTech. 100%.

📠 Old News

The last newsletter — in case you missed it 👀

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, advertise or just want to get in touch.

Happy reading,

Dennis from TaxTech News 💜

📢
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TaxTech News

Newsletter #012 — Value Added TechHappy Monday - welcome to the 12th edition of Value Added Tech! I have some exciting news, tips, links, reads and jobs for you. Just follow alongRead More →29 Apr 2024

Austrian tax filing app Taxefy® back on track? A new update and a new partner tax advisory would make you think soIn October 2023, TaxTech News summarised the rather bad situation Taxefy found itself in. Since then, many changes have been made to enable Taxefy to resume the submission of its clients' tax returnsRead More →7 Apr 2024

Blockpit AG enters into partnership with TaxBit, which is expanding into EuropeOn April 2nd, 2024, US-based TaxBit announced in a blog post that it is expanding to the European continent, where it will join forces with Austrian-based BlockpitRead More →7 Apr 2024

⚡️
Reduced News

Taxefy (🇦🇹): Chamber sues Viennese startup - with bizarre timing [🇩🇪] | Dominik Perlaki, Brutkasten (April 25th, 2024)

  1. Automated processing of tax assessments with milia.AI [🇩🇪] | milia.io, LinkedIn (days ago)


  2. CHECK24 (🇩🇪) just bundled a free income tax into their platform [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿] | Paul H., LinkedIn (a week ago)


  3. Using ChatGPT correctly in tax consultancies: 2nd edition of the ChatGPT basic work published [🇩🇪] | tax-tech.de (April 17th, 2024)


  4. All-in.tax as new German platform for the alliance of innovators in the tax consultancy sector [🇩🇪] | All-in.tax (April 11th, 2024)


  5. TaxDown (🇪🇸) raises €5 million to transform the tax sector in Spain and Latin America [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿] | Cate Lawrence, Tech.eu (April 11th, 2024)


  6. Haufe Group (🇩🇪) presents new corporate design and positions itself as a strong umbrella brand [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿] | Haufe Group (April 10th, 2024)


  7. Moss (🇩🇪) Partners with Deel (🇺🇸) to boost SMB Efficiency [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿] | Moss (April 10th, 2024)


  8. New Tax-KI Community [🇩🇪] | Tax-KI Community (April 8th, 2024)


  9. DivTax (🇩🇪) announces new partnership with DivvyDiary (🇩🇪) [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿] | DivTax, LinkedIn (weeks ago)


  10. New TaxTech platform tax&bytes coming soon [🇩🇪] | Götz Kümmerle, LinkedIn (weeks ago)

🚀
Shooting Stars

Collective (🇺🇸)

One platform to power your business

DATEV E-Rechnungsplattform & DATEV E-Rechnungsschreibung (🇩🇪)

Pilot phase: Software solution for e-invoices, especially for small companies

Formations (🇺🇸)

The tax system is not designed for the self-employed to succeed, but Formations is

KI-Kompass Kanzlei (🇩🇪)

We filter AI tools for you so you don't have to

Lettuce (🇺🇸)

Automated taxes and accounting for your business-of-one

My TaxTechTool (🇩🇪)

The search for the right tool can be time-consuming. Not with My TaxTechTool

Plutus (🇩🇪)

Automate your business taxes and save up to 70% compared to a tax advisor

Taxo (🇲🇽🇪🇨)

Dare to be a digital accountant and automate the taxes of your individual clients

🎙️
Tax Speaking

📺
9am [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿]
Freelance Unlocked - Tino Keller - How To Be Careful With Your Taxes

📺
CNBC Crypto World [🇺🇸]
IRS’ criminal investigation chief says agency prepared for crypto tax crimes

📺
Taxdoo [🇩🇪]
Auf einen Schnack – #3 Deciding means doing without.

👩‍💻
TaxTech Jobs

Candis 🇩🇪 SAP Business One Subject Matter Expert (SME)

  • RIDE 🇩🇪 DATEV Specialist


  • sevDesk 🇩🇪 Buchhaltungsexperte / Berater Buchhaltung


  • sevDesk 🇩🇪 Buchhaltungsexperte - Customer Success


  • sevDesk 🇩🇪 Director Product


  • Taxdoo 🇩🇪 Senior Product Designer

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

☕️
Your Weekly Dose

April 21st, 2024
Dr. Roger Gothmann, LinkedIn

Tax office stops app, ordoliberalism & Gordon Gekko [🇩🇪]

When does regulation slow down innovation and when can regulation be a springboard for innovation?

April 15th, 2024
Karsten Zunke, Haufe

Between euphoria and caution: AI tools in tax consulting [🇩🇪]

Software providers are increasingly integrating AI functionalities into their solutions. While this automation takes place ‘on the fly’, AI can also be used separately to optimise processes in day-to-day tax consulting. But this also harbours pitfalls

April 15th, 2024
Emma Roth, The Verge

Senator Elizabeth Warren claims TurboTax ‘relentlessly’ upsells customers in letter to FTC [🇺🇸]

Senator Warren says Intuit TurboTax ‘deserves’ the FTC’s scrutiny

April 9th, 2024
Johannes Franz, Haufe

E-invoicing: opportunity and challenge for tax consultancies [🇩🇪]

On 1 January 2025, e-invoicing will be introduced in the B2B sector in Germany. Tax firms have a key role to play in the introduction. They must prepare themselves and their clients for the new obligation. Given the short time available, a systematic approach is crucial. In addition to the technical requirements, the impact on the business model must also be taken into account

March 27th, 2024
Gino Dossche, Deirdre Hogan & Sanjeev Fernandez, EY Global

Four steps to take now to meet the evolving e-invoicing regulations [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿]

Complexities are arising from the different e-invoicing requirements and timings worldwide

August 24th, 2023
Prof. Dr. Robert Mayr, DATEV magazin

The digitalisation booster [🇩🇪]

E-invoicing has been mandatory for public administration for several years. New requirements in the B2B sector could ensure that the establishment of digital processes in companies receives a new boost

At some point in time
Rogier Habets, PwC NL

Meet Rogier. A political scientist, athlete, tax specialist, and solver at PwC Netherlands. [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿]

In 2016, Rogier joined PwC as a tax trainee without a tax background. Recently, he became manager and is now involved in mergers, acquisitions, and deals. "When it comes to tax related client issues, the answer is never black and white, similarly to my study in political sciences."

At some point in time
WTS

AI study [🇩🇪]

Everyone is talking about AI applications at the moment. But what are the reasons why intelligent software solutions and modern technologies such as ChatGPT from OpenAI have become so popular in such a short space of time?

📠
Old News

Newsletter #012 — Value Added Tech

Happy Monday - welcome to the 12th edition of Value Added Tech! I have some exciting news, tips, links, reads and jobs for you. Just follow along

Read More →

29 Apr 2024

That is all I have for you today. For any feedback, please head over to my Contact page. To follow TaxTech News directly for the latest news, have a look at LinkedIn.

Made with 💜 in Berlin

You can expect the 13th edition of Value Added Tech on May 27th, 2024.

⚠️ Despite careful preparation, I am not liable for the content of this newsletter. Until a legally binding verdict is reached, the presumption of innocence always applies. For further information, please check the respective referenced sources. For further reference, see the Site Notice and Privacy Policy.

Hey 👋

Happy Monday - welcome to the 12th edition of Value Added Tech! I have some exciting news, tips, links, reads and jobs for you. Just follow along:

📰 TaxTech News

My very own articles about the latest news. This month: Covering Taxefy, Blockpit and TaxBit.

⚡️ Reduced News

My section to keep you up to date in the TaxTech world with the latest. Condensed to the minimum. There are eleven news stories waiting for you.

🚀 Shooting Stars

Where I introduce you to (new) startups, hidden champions and/or new TaxTech tools. This month: Some US-based tools for the self-employed and, most notably, Plutus, helping German UGs/GmbHs with their bookkeeping.

🎙️ Tax Speaking

The section for sound frequencies and moving images: TaxTech podcasts and videos with CNBC and Taxdoo.

👩‍💻 TaxTech Jobs

As always: some new TaxTech jobs with opportunities at Candis, RIDE, sevDesk and Taxdoo. Read more below.

☕️ Your Weekly Dose

Lots to read. Long-form articles. All TaxTech. 100%.

📠 Old News

The last newsletter — in case you missed it 👀

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, advertise or just want to get in touch.

Happy reading,

Dennis from TaxTech News 💜

📢
Advertisement

Are you a tax advisor in Germany?
Do you have freelancers and self-employed clients?

Steuersafe can help you to quickly assess your clients' tax and insurance payments, so that your consultancy calls will be a breeze again.

📰
TaxTech News

Newsletter #012 — Value Added TechHappy Monday - welcome to the 12th edition of Value Added Tech! I have some exciting news, tips, links, reads and jobs for you. Just follow alongRead More →29 Apr 2024

Austrian tax filing app Taxefy® back on track? A new update and a new partner tax advisory would make you think soIn October 2023, TaxTech News summarised the rather bad situation Taxefy found itself in. Since then, many changes have been made to enable Taxefy to resume the submission of its clients' tax returnsRead More →7 Apr 2024

Blockpit AG enters into partnership with TaxBit, which is expanding into EuropeOn April 2nd, 2024, US-based TaxBit announced in a blog post that it is expanding to the European continent, where it will join forces with Austrian-based BlockpitRead More →7 Apr 2024

⚡️
Reduced News

Taxefy (🇦🇹): Chamber sues Viennese startup - with bizarre timing [🇩🇪] | Dominik Perlaki, Brutkasten (April 25th, 2024)

  1. Automated processing of tax assessments with milia.AI [🇩🇪] | milia.io, LinkedIn (days ago)


  2. CHECK24 (🇩🇪) just bundled a free income tax into their platform [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿] | Paul H., LinkedIn (a week ago)


  3. Using ChatGPT correctly in tax consultancies: 2nd edition of the ChatGPT basic work published [🇩🇪] | tax-tech.de (April 17th, 2024)


  4. All-in.tax as new German platform for the alliance of innovators in the tax consultancy sector [🇩🇪] | All-in.tax (April 11th, 2024)


  5. TaxDown (🇪🇸) raises €5 million to transform the tax sector in Spain and Latin America [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿] | Cate Lawrence, Tech.eu (April 11th, 2024)


  6. Haufe Group (🇩🇪) presents new corporate design and positions itself as a strong umbrella brand [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿] | Haufe Group (April 10th, 2024)


  7. Moss (🇩🇪) Partners with Deel (🇺🇸) to boost SMB Efficiency [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿] | Moss (April 10th, 2024)


  8. New Tax-KI Community [🇩🇪] | Tax-KI Community (April 8th, 2024)


  9. DivTax (🇩🇪) announces new partnership with DivvyDiary (🇩🇪) [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿] | DivTax, LinkedIn (weeks ago)


  10. New TaxTech platform tax&bytes coming soon [🇩🇪] | Götz Kümmerle, LinkedIn (weeks ago)

🚀
Shooting Stars

Collective (🇺🇸)

One platform to power your business

DATEV E-Rechnungsplattform & DATEV E-Rechnungsschreibung (🇩🇪)

Pilot phase: Software solution for e-invoices, especially for small companies

Formations (🇺🇸)

The tax system is not designed for the self-employed to succeed, but Formations is

KI-Kompass Kanzlei (🇩🇪)

We filter AI tools for you so you don't have to

Lettuce (🇺🇸)

Automated taxes and accounting for your business-of-one

My TaxTechTool (🇩🇪)

The search for the right tool can be time-consuming. Not with My TaxTechTool

Plutus (🇩🇪)

Automate your business taxes and save up to 70% compared to a tax advisor

Taxo (🇲🇽🇪🇨)

Dare to be a digital accountant and automate the taxes of your individual clients

🎙️
Tax Speaking

📺
9am [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿]
Freelance Unlocked - Tino Keller - How To Be Careful With Your Taxes

📺
CNBC Crypto World [🇺🇸]
IRS’ criminal investigation chief says agency prepared for crypto tax crimes

📺
Taxdoo [🇩🇪]
Auf einen Schnack – #3 Deciding means doing without.

👩‍💻
TaxTech Jobs

Candis 🇩🇪 SAP Business One Subject Matter Expert (SME)

  • RIDE 🇩🇪 DATEV Specialist


  • sevDesk 🇩🇪 Buchhaltungsexperte / Berater Buchhaltung


  • sevDesk 🇩🇪 Buchhaltungsexperte - Customer Success


  • sevDesk 🇩🇪 Director Product


  • Taxdoo 🇩🇪 Senior Product Designer

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

☕️
Your Weekly Dose

April 21st, 2024
Dr. Roger Gothmann, LinkedIn

Tax office stops app, ordoliberalism & Gordon Gekko [🇩🇪]

When does regulation slow down innovation and when can regulation be a springboard for innovation?

April 15th, 2024
Karsten Zunke, Haufe

Between euphoria and caution: AI tools in tax consulting [🇩🇪]

Software providers are increasingly integrating AI functionalities into their solutions. While this automation takes place ‘on the fly’, AI can also be used separately to optimise processes in day-to-day tax consulting. But this also harbours pitfalls

April 15th, 2024
Emma Roth, The Verge

Senator Elizabeth Warren claims TurboTax ‘relentlessly’ upsells customers in letter to FTC [🇺🇸]

Senator Warren says Intuit TurboTax ‘deserves’ the FTC’s scrutiny

April 9th, 2024
Johannes Franz, Haufe

E-invoicing: opportunity and challenge for tax consultancies [🇩🇪]

On 1 January 2025, e-invoicing will be introduced in the B2B sector in Germany. Tax firms have a key role to play in the introduction. They must prepare themselves and their clients for the new obligation. Given the short time available, a systematic approach is crucial. In addition to the technical requirements, the impact on the business model must also be taken into account

March 27th, 2024
Gino Dossche, Deirdre Hogan & Sanjeev Fernandez, EY Global

Four steps to take now to meet the evolving e-invoicing regulations [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿]

Complexities are arising from the different e-invoicing requirements and timings worldwide

August 24th, 2023
Prof. Dr. Robert Mayr, DATEV magazin

The digitalisation booster [🇩🇪]

E-invoicing has been mandatory for public administration for several years. New requirements in the B2B sector could ensure that the establishment of digital processes in companies receives a new boost

At some point in time
Rogier Habets, PwC NL

Meet Rogier. A political scientist, athlete, tax specialist, and solver at PwC Netherlands. [🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿]

In 2016, Rogier joined PwC as a tax trainee without a tax background. Recently, he became manager and is now involved in mergers, acquisitions, and deals. "When it comes to tax related client issues, the answer is never black and white, similarly to my study in political sciences."

At some point in time
WTS

AI study [🇩🇪]

Everyone is talking about AI applications at the moment. But what are the reasons why intelligent software solutions and modern technologies such as ChatGPT from OpenAI have become so popular in such a short space of time?

📠
Old News

Newsletter #012 — Value Added Tech

Happy Monday - welcome to the 12th edition of Value Added Tech! I have some exciting news, tips, links, reads and jobs for you. Just follow along

Read More →

29 Apr 2024

That is all I have for you today. For any feedback, please head over to my Contact page. To follow TaxTech News directly for the latest news, have a look at LinkedIn.

Made with 💜 in Berlin

You can expect the 13th edition of Value Added Tech on May 27th, 2024.

⚠️ Despite careful preparation, I am not liable for the content of this newsletter. Until a legally binding verdict is reached, the presumption of innocence always applies. For further information, please check the respective referenced sources. For further reference, see the Site Notice and Privacy Policy.