Welcome to the Extinction!

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!

#TaxTech #DigitalTransformation #FutureOfFinance #CFOLeadership #EInvoicing