The article argues that fully autonomous AI agents will not replace tax professionals in indirect tax due to reliability constraints and the need for structured workflows. It emphasizes that progress comes from workflow design rather than model capability, and that AI agents should be used as supervised assistants to coordinate multi‑step processes. The future will see narrow, supervised agents complementing deterministic tax engines rather than replacing them.
They lack reliability; each step introduces a probability of failure, making it hard to achieve 99% reliability.
Use structured multi‑step workflows with planning, information gathering, drafting, review, and revision, rather than single‑step prompts.
As assistants embedded in day‑to‑day work or to connect multi‑step processes, under human supervision and with clear boundaries.
They can coordinate workflows, reduce manual handoffs, monitor changes, highlight anomalies, and surface inconsistencies for human review.
They will be narrow, supervised, and grounded in well‑defined data, coexisting with deterministic tax engines rather than replacing them.
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