Deloitte China Publishes Article on the Value of Tax Professionals in the AI Era

Deloitte China has published an article titled "It Starts Here: Where Is the Moat of Tax Professionals in the AI Era?", looking at how the position of tax practitioners is changing now that AI has arrived. The argument runs like this: tax people used to prove their worth by untangling complicated rules and filing the right amount of tax; now that AI spots trends, flags risks and finds opportunities faster than people, that craft moves down the value chain and has to head toward understanding the business and creating value for clients. Victor Li, Deloitte China's rotating deputy CEO in charge of Tax and Business Advisory, shares his thinking in the piece: if AI keeps taking on more large-scale analysis, what capability can tax professionals truly not have replaced, and how do you connect technology, expertise and the client's actual business so the tool does not run ahead of the work.