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Blue J answers questions about US Federal Tax and Canadian Income Tax depending on the database you have selected, and does not contain Excise Tax Act (CA) information yet.

A prompt is a specific input or query provided to a generative AI system to elicit a relevant response. It is a carefully crafted question or statement designed to guide the system in retrieving and generating the desired information.

There are 3 basic components of an effective prompt:

  • Clarity: Clear and unambiguous language is critical.
  • Context: Provide enough background information to guide the system to the correct documents.
  • Specificity: Focus on precise aspects to get targeted information.

Here are a few prompts you can use in Ask Blue J to try it out: 

  • What are the rules for determining the allocation of consideration received in an applicable asset acquisition?

Blue J is conversational, so you can ask follow-up questions to get into more detail on your research, or ask Blue to format the output in a different way to expedite your drafting. For example, you can ask Blue J to go deeper: 

  • Provide more detail on the rules for allocation of consideration
  • Is there any Tax Notes commentary on this?
  • List cases that discuss the allocation of consideration

Or you can Blue J to get the format and output you want: 

  • Put this into a brief client email for a non-tax professional
  • Write this in bullet points

We often see three different areas of question types: 

  1. Research
    1. Get answers to specific tax questions
    2. Get explanations of tax concepts and rules
    3. Clarify rules given the context of a tax situation
  2. Drafting
    1. Turn research threads into client emails: “Draft this into a simple and short email to client”
    2. Re-format as bullet points: “Summarize into bullet points”
    3. Draft with less technical language: “Revise the answer using less technical language”
  3. Presentation Slide Layout
    1. Turn research threads into presentation outlines (slide by slide layout): “Turn this into a presentation”

Watch this quick video tutorial to see Blue J in action for more help.

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