Taxes (Poll) Would you use Claude to do your taxes?

[Fudge Brownie]

I was reading this article about how people are using Claude to do taxes but maybe they shouldn’t.

All this time AI has been out and honestly I never thought to use it to do my taxes. Would you use it for this and why?

 

[t2van]

I've often asked a tax question to AI just because some topics are overly jargon heavy for no other reason than it being a legal mind field designed to catch and trip you up.

However "actual" taxes are done by an accountant. To be honest if I had a basic tax return like:

I earn 40k and I spend 30k id do it myself.

You just can't beat an accountant who knows the system. The amount of areas I "save money" is worth it. Plus bundle in the whole PAYE thing with staff.. yeah I'm not touching that myself no matter how fancy AI is.

 

[SilverClouds]

I mean... If asking it about tax residence counts as 'AI doing taxes'???? Honestly I'm looking for an actual human to advise me on this but I struggle with finding someone that isn't a total scammer + my budget is miniature so yeah. But yeah, after going over this with AI and reading tax residence laws it's pretty obvious I'm still tax resident in Poland because I have polish clients (so 'center of interests' in Poland) and Sri Lanka never gave me any paper to confirm my tax residence here (even though I spent most of last two years physically here and not in Poland). So if I want to not be tax resident in Poland I need clients from other countries and I need some other country to give me a paper 'yes, she's tax resident here' . I don't spend enough (or rather any) time in a year in Poland, I don't own real estate and don't have family there so based on that I shouldn't be tax resident but I have clients from there mostly so I technically still work there so still tax resident.

 

[Fudge Brownie]

I've often asked a tax question to AI just because some topics are overly jargon heavy for no other reason than it being a legal mind field designed to catch and trip you up.

However "actual" taxes are done by an accountant. To be honest if I had a basic tax return like:

I earn 40k and I spend 30k id do it myself.

You just can't beat an accountant who knows the system. The amount of areas I "save money" is worth it. Plus bundle in the whole PAYE thing with staff.. yeah I'm not touching that myself no matter how fancy AI is.

I mean... If asking it about tax residence counts as 'AI doing taxes'???? Honestly I'm looking for an actual human to advise me on this but I struggle with finding someone that isn't a total scammer + my budget is miniature so yeah. But yeah, after going over this with AI and reading tax residence laws it's pretty obvious I'm still tax resident in Poland because I have polish clients (so 'center of interests' in Poland) and Sri Lanka never gave me any paper to confirm my tax residence here (even though I spent most of last two years physically here and not in Poland). So if I want to not be tax resident in Poland I need clients from other countries and I need some other country to give me a paper 'yes, she's tax resident here' . I don't spend enough (or rather any) time in a year in Poland, I don't own real estate and don't have family there so based on that I shouldn't be tax resident but I have clients from there mostly so I technically still work there so still tax resident.

Yes I think asking a question isn’t really the same as have AI do your taxes. I would use it to ask a question but not have AI do the whole thing. Never know if you’re going to get weird hallucinations you know?

 

[roydan]

Like a good jew, I have a hacker accountant that not just does my business taxes (in Israel it's rare fot employees to do their taxes because taxes are deducted by the employers), he optimizes them.
So no, what with all do respect, Claude is not a jewish name and jews are knows to be the best at it.

 

[Outlaw]

Good knowledge and a few formulas, ai can do that for me with ai safety overwatch