Extinction of Tax As We Know It: Business Fiction: Mirror and Portal Into Tax Transformation Journeys - Couverture souple

Agarwal, Nitin

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ISBN 10 : 9334428740 ISBN 13 : 9789334428742

Editeur : Nitin Agarwal, 2025

Synopsis

This is the first business-fiction novel to tell the real, unfiltered story of tax and finance professionals in what the world believes is the “age of AI”.

The world is dazzled by automation, ERP upgrades, e-invoicing mandates, and AI breakthroughs. However, within corporations, a different reality unfolds: broken data, political landmines, failed systems, fragile governance, and leaders who are far from prepared for the future they claim to embrace.

Extinction of Tax As We Know It pulls you directly into that hidden battlefield.

When Maria Mehta becomes CFO of AlphaCorp, she steps into a role surrounded by prestige—and buried in dysfunction. Beneath polished dashboards and confident board presentations lies a messy truth:

AlphaCorp is held together by spreadsheets, patchwork data, and decades of unresolved tax and technology debt.

And standing firmly against change is Sophia Chan, the brilliant yet evasive Head of Tax who has mastered the art of survival through ambiguity, deflection, and hierarchy. She represents everything that resists transformation—fear, control, and political manoeuvring disguised as expertise.

To break the cycle, Maria turns to two unexpected forces:

• Aldo Maseko, a Gen Z CTO prodigy who sees systems as ecosystems and data as destiny.
• Abhishek Iyer, a quiet transformation specialist whose past success and painful failure reveal the difference between tools and true orchestration.

Together, they unravel a pattern of failing ERPs, incorrect tax setups, collapsing e-invoicing designs, and cross-border risks hidden inside “business-as-usual.” As they confront Sophia’s passive sabotage, country-team resistance, and boardroom hostility, AlphaCorp transforms into a courtroom—where every meeting feels like testimony, every escalation a verdict.

Amid the chaos lies a larger truth: AI will not save organisations that cannot save themselves.

Without governance, aligned teams, clean data, and courageous leadership, even the most advanced technologies turn into expensive illusions.

This novel doubles as a transformation playbook for the modern enterprise, revealing:

• Why tax, finance, IT, and operations must evolve into Fusion Teams
• Why the future belongs to Fusion Professionals—those who speak the languages of data, systems, tax, processes, and leadership
• Why e-invoicing will reshape organisational DNA
• How AI’s hype collides with the harsh reality of organisational unreadiness
• How politics destroys transformation long before technology does

Through corporate warfare, emotional truths, and high-stakes decision-making, Extinction of Tax As We Know It exposes what global professionals live through but rarely speak about.

This is the book for:

CFOs, tax leaders, ERP teams, technologists, consultants, auditors, transformation professionals, and every ambitious Gen Z or millennial shaping the future of work.

If you’ve ever survived an ERP project, lived through a tax audit, or navigated corporate power games, this book will feel like home. Once you read it, you will never look at tax, technology, leadership, or organisational transformation the same way again.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nitin Agarwal is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, an INSEAD alumnus, and an ADIT-qualified global tax and technology leader. Born in Assam and now based in Dubai, he has spent over two decades leading complex tax, ERP, and e-invoicing transformations across multinational groups. A strong believer that technology is a language-not a panacea-he focuses on human-centred transformation and future-ready skills. Nitin is known for turning complex topics into clear, compelling stories and continues to learn, unlearn, and reimagine the future of traditional professions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nitin Agarwal
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9334428740
• ISBN 13: 9789334428742
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 319
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg