Tax AI Harness
Most of what's said about AI in tax is either too vague to be useful or too technical to read.
I'm Hawras Bapeer. Together with Tern — my intern robot — we write Tax AI Harness for tax and finance professionals who are skeptical of the hype and short on time.
This page exists so I can share the documents and manuals that LinkedIn won't let me attach.
Every Tuesday in your inbox. 5 minutes to read, ready to show off by lunch. Or casually drop at weekend drinks.
Nine years in transfer pricing. Eight at PwC, now in-house at a fast-paced online payments platform. I've reconciled Local Files at 2am before filing deadlines, and I've watched AI quietly change what's possible in this work.
Most AI commentary in tax comes from people who understand AI but have never filed Local Files at 2am, or from tax people who have never built with the tools. I've done both. That overlap is my happy place.
The newsletter is my attempt to explain what's real, what's hype, and what you and your team can actually do.
Three short manuals.
Use them today.
The same three kits I send colleagues and friends who ask where to start with AI in tax. Enter your email — I'll send the link.
Tax and finance people who touch Word documents and Excel files on the daily and need to make a story out of it. Or those who read a whole load of information and need to make sense of it.
People who want AI to do their job for them. People who think “prompt engineering” is a career. People who prefer hype over honest trade-offs.
21 editions. One every Tuesday.
Series 1 covers the fundamentals: what AI is, why file formats matter, why prompting isn't magic. Series 2 applies it to TP work — where AI helps, where it fails quietly, and what tax authorities are already doing with it.
Reply to any edition. Disagree. Tell me what the next one should cover. I read everything.