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A Top Technology Initiative Article by Randy Johnston. The outlook couldn’t be brighter with new opportunities, technologies, challenges, and clients looking to take advantage of your service offerings. In this column, I will illustrate portal and AI support with some new platforms that are examples of improved automation and AI.
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Brian Tankersley, CPA, and Randy Johnston review TaxGPT , an AI-powered tax assistant for accountants & tax professionals. The tech and accounting professionals that developed the TaxGPT co-pilot system says it can boost productivity by 10x. We’d like to talk about another AI based tax research tool called Tax GPT.
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