Bringing code to the Code: Tech trends in International Tax

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.