Episode 17

How Making Tax Digital Affects Accountants & Businesses Globally

Episode 17. On today's episode of the Accounting Influencers Podcast, Martin & Rob discuss "How Making Tax Digital Affects Accountants & Businesses Globally."

Key shownotes from the whole interview include:

➜ How the MTD initiative has taken over accounting firms in the UK

➜ The role of governments in collecting taxes in a more direct way from businesses

➜ How MTD and similar tax initiatives create compliance opportunities for accounting firms

➜ Less than 5% of companies are not set up for digital tax payments

➜ If accountants are not making their clients ready for MTD or its equivalent, then their competitors will

➜ Why MTD is the direction of travel for countries globally, and why accounting firms must be ready

➜ The implications for accounting firms who do not push the digital tax agenda with their clients

➜ How the speed of change is affecting businesses and the accountants who serve them

➜ Why the UK is the test case for many countries in forcing more frequent digital tax collection

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Accounting Voices helps people in the accounting world stay relevant visible and vocal. Host Rob Brown interprets trends reshaping the profession and gives listeners insight to build authority influence and a stronger voice in firms and markets.

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Rob Brown

Rob Brown is the founder and host of the Accounting Voices Podcast, the flagship solo show of the Accounting Voices Network. Each episode offers sharp analysis and commentary on the trends, ideas and people shaping the global accounting profession.

Through this Accounting Voices Podcast, Rob helps accounting firm leaders, decision makers and professionals stay relevant and make sense of disruption in areas like AI, automation, M&A, private equity and soft skills beyond the tech. His perspective blends clarity, insight and curiosity, making complex issues relevant and practical for professionals and decision makers across accounting and finance.

He also leads two monthly panel shows, Accounting M&A and Accounting AI, which bring together senior voices to explore consolidation, strategy and the impact of technology on firms and people.

Rob is the author of the bestselling book Build Your Reputation (Wiley) and a TEDx speaker whose talk The Personal Brand of You has more than 400,000 views. Over his career he has hosted and moderated more than 1,000 conversations with accounting and fintech leaders worldwide.

Based in Nottingham UK, Rob is a stroke survivor living with epilepsy, a black belt in kickboxing, a decent chess player and an average player of four musical instruments.