Data & Visibility
Information Asymmetry™
The authority's ability to see across the economy; the taxpayer's view remains internal.
Canonical Definition
Information Asymmetry™ is the difference between what the tax authority can see across the entire economy and what any individual taxpayer can see from inside its own systems. The authority's analytical capability — comparing transaction patterns across all participants — is growing faster than most enterprises' compliance capability. The authority may identify a compliance concern through pattern analytics before the taxpayer is aware the pattern exists.
— Nitin Agarwal, Tax Technology Architect