The executive AI lens: Head of Tax edition
An executive guide to leading AI transformation across the tax function
Tax functions are being asked to manage greater complexity, increasing data demands and a rapidly evolving regulatory environment, while providing faster, more strategic insight to the business. AI creates an opportunity to rethink how the tax function responds. For heads of tax, the priority is to shape an AI strategy that supports the wider business agenda and equips the function for what comes next, while maintaining the technical quality, professional judgment and trust that tax demands.
Where is your tax function today?
Your priorities evolve as AI becomes embedded across the tax function. Most functions sit at one of four stages, and the right next step depends on where you are today. Locating your function honestly is the starting point: the move from early pilots to scaling looks very different from the move from ad hoc use to a consistent standard.
Reactive
Ad hoc use by individuals, with no tax-specific standards or consistent review.
Exploring
Selected tax use cases. Early learning and value emerging.
Scaling
Use cases delivering value, with tax review and governance maturing.
AI-enabled
AI embedded across tax processes, knowledge and ways of working. Teams work effectively alongside AI.
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The five strategic decisions every head of tax must make
AI decisions are business decisions. These five shape everything that follows.
Your first 90 days, and what to watch for
AI is more than a productivity opportunity. For tax leaders, it is an opportunity to strengthen compliance, enhance technical quality and increase the value tax brings to the business.
Mohamed Serokh | Partner | Transfer Pricing Leader
