🤖 Robots can prepare & file your Taxes. But only humans can lead

Hey, I’m Douglas, Editor-in-Chief of the Brazilian Tax Reform Portal 🇧🇷.

In this edition, I bring you an article by Lionel Nobre, Vice President, Latin America Tax at Dell Technologies.

As automation transforms the tax profession, the defining traits of modern in-house tax leaders are no longer technical precision or regulatory memorization—but human capabilities. This article explores why judgment, ethics, and influence are the strategic cornerstones of tomorrow’s tax leadership, and how organizations can nurture them through simulations, ethical frameworks, and business-savvy storytelling. It also references key change-managem.

Introduction

Welcome to the golden age of tax automation, where bots do not sleep, spreadsheets self- populate, and AI writes memos faster than your caffeine kicks in. It is dazzling. It is efficient. It is… just the beginning.

Because behind every AI-generated tax filing, audit defense or AI-suggested tax position, there is still one thing that no machine can replicate: the trusted human at the helm. The in- house tax professional who not only deciphers the law, but also navigates uncertainty, speaks CFO, and—on a good day—keeps both the CEO and the tax authority happy