For decades, tax research has followed a stubbornly familiar rhythm. A complex question lands on a consultant’s desk. They open case law databases, dig through circulars, scan judgments, draft a view, send it up the chain, wait for reviews, revise, and finally respond. Roughly 10-20 hours later, a carefully worded answer goes out.
The process worked, but it never really changed. That lag is what Deloitte decided to challenge.
Earlier this month, Deloitte India launched Tax Pragya, an agentic AI platform for tax research and summarisation that aims to do something radical in a conservative profession. It compresses hours of deep technical tax research into minutes, without compromising trust in accuracy, sources or judgement.
Trained on more than 1.2 million tax cases and o
