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AI a growing misery in tax authorities. Correspondence, disputes, appeals a mess. We've gone from a handful of well-known sovereign citizen cranks to universally empowering every taxpayer to dispute every assessment. Effort to formulate cohesive thought in an email used to dissuade most...

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Biggest problem is most are well-crafted enough on surface they can't be dismissed out of hand by front-line and blocked from advancing through commissioners process, even though they fall apart under any informed scrutiny as being based on foreign law/non-binding authority/complete hallucinations.

Need to hire more front-line, senior staff to deal with it. Need to hire more in-house counsel, advocating counsel (was an FT column saying AI would lead to *more* demand for lawyers describing exactly this). More public funds. More socialising the downsides of America’s 👐 hyperscalers 👐