20 AI prompting techniques. Real tax scenarios. Try them live.
Co-creator of CIOT’s Diploma in Tax Technology & AI for Tax courses. Host of DITT Talk Podcast. Building at the intersection of AI and tax.
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- 09 Feb 2026
QUEST HN Readings for 2025 selected from emschwartz
A personal collection of 92 HN-linked blogs from emschwartz to review 2025 and learn for 2026.
- 22 Jan 2026
🔧 A Small Win: Rethinking a Spreadsheet-Heavy Process
How a small automation win replaced a painful spreadsheet workflow.
- 01 Nov 2025
QUEST Gratitude Wall
A collaborative public gratitude wall where people can write post-it style thank you notes and react with emojis
- 25 Oct 2025
QUEST Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Exploring the key concepts from Multipliers through podcast and interactive mindmap
- 01 Sep 2025
QUEST Introducing PTPT: Prompting Techniques for People in Tax
Why I built PTPT and how it helps tax professionals use AI more effectively.
- 17 Aug 2025
QUEST Wordlers
Real-time collaborative Wordle game - perfect for couples in different cities!
- 15 Apr 2025
Building an Interactive AI Management Essentials Tool
An interactive tool for exploring AI management concepts in practice.
- 17 Jan 2025
QUEST Prompting Techniques for People in Tax (PTPT)
An interactive guide to 20 prompting techniques, each demonstrated with real tax scenarios.
- 11 Aug 2024
👩🏻💻 The Hidden Complexity of Tax Data Analytics: 10 Lessons from the Trenches 👩🏻🏭
Hard-won lessons from building tax data pipelines in the real world.
- 31 May 2024
QUEST Making Sea Angels: A Journey of Light, Art, and Technology
A 2-metre lighthouse art installation blending data, 3D printing, and LEDs.
- 07 Apr 2024
Navigating the AI Frontier in Transfer Pricing: a Brief Case Study
How AI is reshaping transfer pricing analysis — a practical case study.
- 21 Nov 2023
Digital transformation: how IT can shape the tax profession (🗞️published)
How IT teams and tax teams can work together to drive digital transformation.
- 17 Jul 2023
Response to HMRC's Consultation on The Tax Administration Framework Review: Creating Innovative Change Through New Legislative Pilots
A formal response to HMRC on modernising the tax administration framework.
- 23 Feb 2023
Finding Your Career Niche - A Talk at PyCon Namibia 2023
Reflections on finding your place at the intersection of tax and technology.
- 21 Dec 2022
🪡Stitching Success - 3 Tax Tech Wisdoms from Sewing and Dressmaking 👗
Unexpected parallels between sewing, dressmaking, and tax technology.
- 21 Nov 2022
QUEST A New Milestone in Tax Education: Introducing the CIOT Diploma in Tax Technology
The story behind co-creating CIOT's Diploma in Tax Technology.
- 21 Jun 2021
Building a Withholding Tax Determination Engine
Designing an engine to automate withholding tax rate determination.
- 25 Mar 2021
Building an HS Code Classification Model
Using machine learning to automate customs classification of goods.
- 29 Dec 2020
Building a Personal Website for Free
A step-by-step guide to setting up your own website without spending a penny.
- 27 Nov 2020
Technology for Transfer Pricing (🗞published)
A survey of technology solutions available for transfer pricing compliance.
- 17 Oct 2020
Peeking into the Giants: Analysing the ADIMA Database (🗞published)
Analysing OECD's ADIMA database to understand the world's largest multinationals.
- 10 Mar 2020
Machine Learning Governance in Tax
Why governance matters when deploying machine learning in tax functions.
- 10 Dec 2018
Data, User Participation and Value Creation: Drilling Down on Taxing Digitalization (🗞published)
A deep dive into the digital economy tax debate and value creation.
- 09 Oct 2018
Data Visualisation in Tax
Exploring how data visualisation can transform tax reporting and analysis.
- 02 Jul 2018
Skills for Future Tax Professionals
What skills will tax professionals need in the age of AI and automation?
- 12 Dec 2017
CBCR Analysis
Exploring country-by-country reporting data and what it reveals.
- 01 Apr 1973
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- 05 Apr 1799
Income Tax was officially introduced by William Pitt the Younger