Being a Professional at the Intersection of Tax and Technology

Why be a tax professional besides that it feels pretty darn good? First of all, it leaves me with time to ponder things more abstract, like gas taxes—and to write for Bloomberg Tax on such ponderings. And I’m a geek, to be sure, but I’m not the geekiest geek you’ve ever met. I haven’t written an operating system from scratch, and my programming skills are intermediate at best. But in the realm of tax, I’m as geeky as they get. I enjoy being able to pair my decidedly intermediate understanding of a lot of different technologies with my knowledge ...