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Mission: This Expert committee is responsible for developing a method that can be applied to all types of taxes and that makes it possible to digitally map existing and new tax legal norms to the greatest extent possible.

Chair: Dr. Christoph Schmidt, University of Public Administration and Finance, Ludwigsburg

Mission: The mission of this technical committee is to create standardized tax reporting without media discontinuity for periodic reporting obligations to the tax authorities from accounting data.

Chair: Jens Schäperclaus

Mission: The mission of this technical committee is to develop standards for existing future transactional information requirements, taking into account international developments (e.g. SII, SdI).

Chair: Mag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ Bianca Wöhrer (FH Campus Wien)

Mission: This technical committee is to explore ways to digitize necessary tax evidence and make it available digitally in end-to-end processes (from document creation to audit and retention).

Chair: Dr. Heino Weller, Datev

Mission: The task of this technical committee is to develop recommendations for the digital operationalization of tax controls in all types of tax. It also includes concepts and methods for the widest possible automation of these tax controls.

Chair: Heidi Meburger-Bullock, Freudenberg Group

Mission: The mission of this technical committee is to evaluate tax use cases for the application of distributed ledger technologies (e.g., blockchain). Recommendations for technical standards and governance models will be drafted.

Chair: Dr. Matthias Gries, Siemens

Mission: The IDSt’s Expert Committee VII evaluates technological developments in the field of taxation with a view to their practical applicability. The aim is to identify solutions that make tax processes more efficient and effective. To this end, the committee relies on dialogue with stakeholders and the promotion of promising technologies.

Chair: André Hengst, EY

Mission: The rapid development of artificial intelligence—especially generative AI—is opening up new opportunities for efficiency, quality, and automation in the field of taxation. Expert Committee VIII is dedicated to observing, evaluating, and classifying these technologies in a tax context.

Chair: Stefan Groß, PSP

Mission: The core tasks of this expert committee are the creation of competence profiles and the basic knowledge transfer for tax experts in companies, tax advisory and law firms, taking into account the requirements from digitalisation in the tax area.

Chair: Prof. Dr. Thomas Egner, University of Bamberg