Rethinking legal work, at the Juridicum.

Tax law is one of the most rule-intensive areas of law, and at the same time one where digitalization is still in its early stages. Tax audits, compliance workflows and regulatory decision chains follow clear logic. Yet in practice they are often handled manually. What is rarely taught is how to structure this expert knowledge so that it can be processed systematically.

In the KU TaxTech course at the Institute for Tax Law, students experience exactly this. They see how a tax law review workflow is built, how decision logic works and why traceability is critical in regulated environments. UNOY makes this bridge between tax law and technology tangible.

For us, the collaboration with the Juridicum is a commitment: UNOY is built for knowledge workers, and tax law is knowledge work in its most demanding form. Students should get to know the tools that will change their work while still studying, not only under time pressure in a law firm or tax advisory practice.

First: tax law students bring a mental model that maps perfectly onto workflow design. They are trained to examine the elements of a legal fact pattern, construct if-then chains and subsume facts under legal norms. Building a tax law review workflow is fundamentally the same thing, in digital form.

Second: the biggest hurdle is not the technology but the abstraction. Students must learn to formulate tax law knowledge in a way that can be processed systematically. This is not a technical skill; it is an intellectual one. And KU TaxTech demonstrates that it can be taught.

Third: the university is the right place to build this competency. In tax advisory practice, there is no time for foundational work. At university, students can experiment, make mistakes and reflect. This creates a foundation on which everything else is built.