How can we make doing our taxes easier and more efficient? Perhaps blockchain and AI can play a role in modernizing our tax systems. Let's close the gap between technology and policy. Let's make doing our taxes fun!

Jeffrey Saviano
EY Global Tax Innovation Leader
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I am a Director of EY and a member of EY's Global Innovation Leadership Team. I lead teams in discovering, designing and commercializing new tax services, with an emphasis on the deployment of new technology platforms. I create a startup culture to drive innovation through test and learn patterns and accelerated innovation.

My interests include the application of new, cutting-edge technologies in government tax administrations and corporate tax departments; innovation strategy for professional service providers; leading programs to help corporate tax executives build their innovation capabilities; business model and customer experience innovation.

Before moving to innovation, I was a longtime leader of EY's Americas Indirect Tax Practice, where I helped companies manage their state and local taxes in the United States and their non-income taxes globally. In that role, I advised clients on state tax policy matters affecting corporate taxpayers. I have more than twenty years of experience in state, local and indirect taxes.

I gave a TEDx Talk in Brookline, Massachusetts, in the fall of 2016, based on the idea that imposing a carbon tax could help mitigate the harmful effects of climate change. I testified before the Joint Tax Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature on the impact of proposed changes to the state's tax laws. I am a frequent speaker on tax policy issues in the US.

I received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Iona College, a JD from Syracuse University College of Law, and an LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law. I serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of Innovation Leader and the Elon University School of Law Entrepreneurship Advisory Group. I am a former tax professor at Suffolk University's Sawyer Business School, and in 2016 I taught an Innovation in Professional Services course at Elon University School of Law.
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