Welcome to the Extinction!
- careersoftomorrowb
- Jul 14
- 3 min read
Updated: 5 days ago
Extinction of Tax As We Know It – A Business Fiction Story Rooted in Reality
Across industries and borders, one pattern keeps repeating:
Digital mandates are accelerating
ERP and legacy systems are struggling to keep up
And tax functions are being asked to do more, with less time, fewer people, and higher risk
Extinction of Tax As We Know It is a business fiction novel inspired by these very challenges.
It follows a multinational enterprise on the edge of collapse and its transformation journey, which begins not with technology but with realising and accepting the truth.
It starts with chaos.
A patchwork of systems. Audit flags piling up. Manual overrides, duplicated logic, and compliance risk across 21 countries.
As the board dithers, a handful of leaders begin asking the hard questions:
Why are tax and data treated like afterthoughts?
Can automation alone fix what poor governance breaks?
And what happens to the people when the systems finally start working?
The story follows eight professionals across tax, finance, and technology—each facing a different battle including:
A CFO caught between transformation and survival
A Head of Tax forced to choose between silence and integrity
A Technologist who sees broken tax logic as a symptom, not the problem
A Consultant who knows that tools don’t build trust—people do
And at the centre of it all: a question we rarely stop to ask.
What is tax really for? Compliance? Reporting? Control? Or something more?
🎯 Who is this book for?
If you’ve ever been part of—or responsible for— #digitaltransformation in tax, finance, or IT… this will feel uncomfortably familiar.
But this book isn’t just about tax.
It’s about culture. It’s about #leadership. It’s about change, project management, and people.
It’s about the real, personal, emotional journey of professionals who are asked to carry the weight of transformations, often without a roadmap.
And it’s about making space for something better.
Where #automation doesn’t replace people overnight, it creates the urgency and opportunity to reskill them.
Where instead of layoffs and resentment, businesses choose engagement and evolution. Where responsible leaders transform processes & uplift people. And where those people, in turn, embrace the systems they once feared.
This book doesn’t just say why that matters. It shows how it plays out.
This is a story of "fictional nobodies".
& yet, it’s a story we’re all living.
It’s the story of:
Daily struggles in high-pressure, under-resourced teams
The quiet fear of being replaced by automation
The tension between doing your job and doing what’s right
The hope that change can be something we lead, not something we survive
It’s also a story of the future.
A story of how the next generation must prepare for a world where AI and automation may do what most of us do today.
This book will provoke thought. It will hold up a mirror. And it will hold your hand as you walk through this inevitable journey of transformation.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing:
Character journeys based on real-world archetypes
Lessons from each chapter—designed for CFOs, transformation leaders, tech architects, and beyond
Tools and strategy templates inspired by the book
This isn’t just about tax. It’s about change and adapting to keep up.
Welcome to the extinction - The Extinction of Tax As We Know It!
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