Impressions of the Tax Directors Meeting 2017

Some impressions from the WTS Global Tax Directors Meeting 2017 on October 25th in Miami. This year, these exciting topics were on the agenda:

Digitization & Artificial Intelligence

• How real is the risk of “Superintelligence”
• Automation at a new level: How AI systems analyze and comprehend information
• Enactment: How AI systems take action and assist humans
• The influence of AI in the financial industry / tax function

US Tax Perspectives

• US Tax Reform to be or not to be? (Tax Rate Reduction, Territoriality, Dividend Repatriation)
• Interest Deductability
• Border Adjustment Tax
• BEPS Implementation

Tax Incentives and Opportunities in Latin America

• Tax incentives
• Major tax trends
• BEPS’ initiatives (Degree of implementation, CbC, MLI, Dispute Resolution)