Insights on AI research for regulated domains
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.
Chat interfaces feel modern but produce ephemeral, indefensible output. Professional tax research needs structured answers you can file, reproduce, and defend.
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.
AI skepticism in tax is rational. Most tools deserve it. But rejecting the entire category because ChatGPT hallucinated a tax rate is like refusing calculators because the first ones jammed.
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.
How retrieval-augmented generation works, why basic RAG still hallucinates, and what a search-RAG fusion architecture adds for tax professionals.