Should you trust AI to do your taxes?

No language on earth has ever produced the expression “as enjoyable as filing your taxes.” This annual chore is the pits. It’s slow, frustrating work that requires organization, math skills, and the ability to decipher meaning from the U.S. tax code. People will jump on pretty much any solution that makes filing quicker, easier, and less painful–including giving AI a crack at it. Recent survey research from Qlik found that nearly 11% of taxpayers have used or plan to use a consumer AI system (such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Gemini) to help them prepare their 2025 tax returns. But how trustworthy are these AI systems when it comes to something as sensitive as your taxes? It doesn’t exactly inspire confidence that studies have shown AI is not so great at math. If you’re considering letting your AI assistant give you some tax assistance, here’s what Claude himself won’t tell you. Tax pros are using AI While it may seem outlandish to consult AI for anything tax-related (at least, that