Perplexity Computer can now help prepare your federal tax return. Select “Navigate my taxes” on Computer to give it a shot.

Read more about Computer for Taxes:

Nice. now your income data won’t just go to the tax authorities, but it’ll end up with all of Perplexity’s “partners” too 🤦‍♂️

Think twice before you give your financial data to an AI.

Would have been nice if this was out a month ago

we went from "AI can write your emails" to "AI can do your taxes" in 18 months and nobody paused to ask what happens when it's wrong. an AI hallucinating in a chat is annoying. an AI hallucinating on a tax return is a federal crime. yours specifically. because the IRS doesn't audit perplexity. they audit YOU. the liability is completely asymmetric. perplexity gets a product demo. you get a letter from the IRS. who's responsible when AI tax software makes a mistake? because right now the answer is "you" and that seems insane

Govtech ai agent is a game changer

Tax preparers right now:

Intuit were always in trouble. Now we’re getting closer to $INTU chart looking like duolingo’s

@AravSrinivas We can safely declare AGI when it will be able to handle German ones 👀

LOL!!!! Everyone, keep using AI to do taxes. I'm getting rich as hell correcting all of AI's massive fuckups on tax returns.

Every accountant just felt a chill down their spine

Why can’t the US Govt hire Perplexity, and have it pre-fill taxes for everyone? Then all have a month to either pay it, or make changes and then pay it? Surely that would not only be cheaper than the current $15bn tax prep industry- it would also increase tax collection. Win win

who wants to be the guinea pig? not me

This post came out at 12:25pm.. H&R Block was up 1.35% at that time.. 5 minutes later, $HRB was down -0.72% A -2% drop in 5 minutes... due to one tweet.

So you’re saying I can fire my CPA?!

TurbotTax live has done this for years.

This is cool. Introduce Financial Statements and tax filing preparation for SMBs too in the US and other markets. Big area, not many good players.

When accounts realize they are now out of business too

Perplexity team just keeps shipping...

I tried this a few days ago but after I entered in all my documents the response was my tax environment was too complicated. I was ready to cut the accountant cord but I guess that isn’t realistic yet.

Even perplexity says don't trust it,

Consider Claude

From 'let me search that for you' to 'let me do your taxes for you' in one product cycle. the scope creep of AI assistants is actually just them discovering how much professional knowledge was gatekept behind expensive humans

Tax filing is one of the hardest real-world tests for a computer agent. Unstructured documents, jurisdiction-specific rule sets, zero tolerance for output errors — it hits every failure mode that benchmarks miss. If Perplexity Computer holds here, that's a real signal.

ok running my filed return through this right now. either my CPA did a great job and i feel good, or she didn't and i file an amendment. win win i guess?

Automating tax prep like this could save people hours of stress every year. Really interesting direction.

can I replace my accountant now?

If a person follows your instructions and uploads all of their tax documents to Perplexity Computer, there is no expectation of privacy. Is that correct?

How does the e-file work?

the fact that an AI search engine is now doing taxes better than the $40B tax prep industry tells you everything about how fragile most business moats actually are. turbotax spent decades lobbying to keep taxes complicated and now a startup just said "lol we'll do it for free." every industry built on artificial complexity is about to get flattened

Tax prep is where computer-use demos stop being cute. One wrong filing status, missed carryforward, or typo in a 1099 turns into IRS mail, not a product patch. The winner here needs audit trails before it needs better marketing.

I operate under the assumption that all of my data is for sale to the highest bidder at all times anyway, so this is absolutely fantastic. I love @perplexity_ai

Bringing AI into tax workflows shows how assistants are shifting from answering questions to actually completing real tasks.

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