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Harvey raised $760M. Blue J raised $133M. Neither can answer a question about erfbelasting in Brussels. Here's why that creates an opportunity.
When Belgian tax sources disagree, the worst thing an AI tool can do is pick one and act confident. Here's what honest uncertainty looks like.
A couple in Antwerp with €2M in assets. Two children in different regions. Three inheritance tax regimes. Here's how the numbers diverge — and what a complete advisory analysis actually looks like.
The AI Act entered into force on 1 August 2024. Some provisions are already active. Most articles confuse provider obligations with deployer obligations — here's the distinction that matters for your practice.
AI adoption in accounting firms surged from 9% to 41% in one year. McKinsey says 44% of legal tasks are technically automatable. The World Economic Forum lists bookkeeping among the fastest-declining roles. Here's what this actually means for Belgian tax professionals — and what it doesn't.
A search engine finds text. A knowledge graph navigates relationships: which article amends which, which ruling interprets what, which exception overrides the rule. Belgian tax law is a web of cross-references — and a knowledge graph is the map.
Before your legal AI tool can answer a question, it has to cut the law into pieces. The way it cuts determines whether the answer includes the exception that changes everything — or misses it entirely.
Harvey users report 37 hours per month. Thomson Reuters claims 63% reduction. We looked at the real numbers for Belgian tax research — and built a conservative estimate that doesn't require you to believe marketing claims.
Belgium has three inheritance tax regimes, three gift tax structures, and three registration duty rates — each with different reform timelines. Here's what that means for advisors and why no single answer is ever complete.
Belgian tax law changes twice a year minimum. If your AI tool can't tell 2019 from 2026, its answer isn't wrong — it's for the wrong year. Here's what temporal versioning is and why it matters.
A single TAK 23 life insurance product touches insurance tax, income tax, withholding tax, TOB, and regional inheritance tax. Here's what most advisors — and every AI chatbot — miss.
A ministerial circular and a Court of Cassation ruling look the same to most AI search systems. That's not a minor flaw — it's a fundamental gap that makes every answer unreliable.
These aren't trick questions. They're routine queries any tax professional faces. But they expose five architectural blind spots that no general-purpose AI can fix with a better prompt.
Three tax questions, two AI tools, one clear lesson: for professional research, verifiability beats confidence.