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Tax AI Gets the Glow-Up. Accountants Are the Nervous Ones.
Institutions selling AI tax tools have won the framing war; individual filers and mid-tier accountants are absorbing the cost of that victory.
The liability gap in AI-assisted tax preparation is not a regulatory gray area — it is a structural feature of how these tools are sold. Deloitte's audit committee guidance [7] and its broader AI-in-financial-services framing [6] position AI as an organizational capability question, not an individual risk question. That framing is correct for the firms selling implementation. It is actively misleading for the filer or mid-level accountant who uses the output and signs the return.