WEDNESDAY 30 AUGUST 2017
I Tax Robot

10.30 – 12.00

It is anticipated that within the next 30 years tax authorities will, in great part, be replaced by robots and data servers. Fed by information by tax payers, these robot machines will prepare your tax return, cross-reference tax information, inspect and audit corporate accounts and reach out to your bank statements. From a tax payers’ perspective, robots will predict the outcome of a litigation case, analyse case law in a fraction of human time, do tax planning and draft tax clauses. At last, robots will become tax payers themselves. During this working session, speakers and panel members will address the challenges and international developments of automated tax systems and exchange of financial information, and “turning the spell against the machine”, by taxing robots. At last, will tax lawyers become IT specialists?

Part 1: “Robot” Tax Compliance
Moderators: Gustavo Y. Hernandez, Monereo Meyer Marinel-lo Abogados, Spain
Speakers:

• Catarina Belim, BELIM Legal Services, RL, Portugal
• Nils H. Plassmeier, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Germany
• Dr. Christian Presoly, Rechtsanwalt|Attorney at law, Liechtenstein

Part 2: Automatic Exchange Information

• Matthew A. Cullen, Sharp Partners P.A., US tax lawyer based in Switzerland
• Ferenc Ballegeer, FB-Private Wealth Law, Belgium
• Yuki Sakamoto, Executive Director, EY Law Co., Japan

Part 3: What is coming in AI for Tax?

• Aatsushi Oishi, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Japan
• Raajesh Simhunn, Nishith Desai Associates, India