Public Sector

Filter by:

Type:

Tag:

insights · 11 min read

From Periodic Returns to Continuous Transaction Intelligence

For decades, VAT and GST administration has been organized around the return. Businesses record transactions, aggregate them into periodic declarations and file. E-invoicing and electronic receipts now change that sequence. They make each transaction visible while it is still current, and AI turns that visibility into service, compliance and enforcement decisions taken while economic activity is still moving. The return is becoming the conclusion rather than the beginning.

5 Sep 2026 public-sector tax

insights · 11 min read

From Universal Scrutiny to Adaptive Compliance

Tax authorities have always treated noncompliance differently depending on the case. What is changing is the speed, precision and breadth with which they can do it. As e-invoicing and digital evidence make economic activity visible, AI lets authorities move away from broad controls applied after filing and toward treatments shaped by the taxpayer, the transaction and the reason a risk emerged. The shift is from universal scrutiny to adaptive compliance.

5 Sep 2026 public-sector tax

insights · 11 min read

The VAT Refund Is Becoming a Real-Time Decision

A VAT refund is often treated as the final administrative step after a return is filed. In reality it is one of the most consequential decisions a tax authority makes. Pay too slowly and legitimate businesses finance government uncertainty. Pay too readily and fabricated transactions become public money. Digital transaction evidence and AI are turning that blunt trade-off into a precise decision about what can be released, what must be verified and what warrants investigation.

5 Sep 2026 public-sector tax

Industry Perspective · 7 min read

Government Benefits AI: The Fraud Frame Is Costing Agencies More Than Fraud Does

Benefits agencies have built their AI strategies around fraud detection. Fraud is real and worth addressing. But the larger financial problem — overpayment accumulation from delayed circumstance detection — is not a fraud problem. And the human cost of the agencies' blind spot — entitled citizens not receiving support — is not addressed by fraud AI at all. A different frame produces a different strategy, and a better one.

9 Jun 2025 Government Public Sector