Is Your Tax Partner Really Working?

Your Big 4 tax retainer renews every year. Nobody questions it. Nobody measures it. This book does.An AI compared three consecutive planning memos from the same Big 4 partner: 73% overlap. Then it answered a technical IRC question in 40 seconds. The partner took 4 minutes and 20 seconds. The answers were not the same.For the CFO: How to analyze exactly what your retainer delivers, build the internal AI tax function, and restructure the advisory relationship so you pay for judgment you cannot replicate.For the tax professional: An honest account of what AI has done to every practice area, the 70/30 diagnostic for your own practice, and the transition playbook for every career stage from Big 4 associate to regional firm partner.Written through four voices at the same company: the Big 4 partner, the CFO, the fractional CFO brought in to review the retainer, and the VP of Tax who has been watching from inside.