Extinction of Tax as We Know It

<p><strong>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.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p><em>Extinction of Tax As We Know It</em> pulls you directly into that hidden battlefield.</p><p>When <strong>Maria Mehta</strong> 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:</p><p><strong>AlphaCorp is held together by spreadsheets patchwork data and decades of unresolved tax and technology debt.</strong></p><p>And standing firmly against change is <strong>Sophia Chan</strong> 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.</p><p>To break the cycle Maria turns to two unexpected forces:</p><ul><li><strong>Aldo Maseko</strong> a Gen Z CTO prodigy who sees systems as ecosystems and data as destiny.</li><li><strong>Abhishek Iyer</strong> a quiet transformation specialist whose past success and painful failure reveal the difference between tools and true orchestration.</li></ul><p>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.</p><p><strong>Amid the chaos lies a larger truth: AI will not save organisations that cannot save themselves.</strong></p><p>Without governance aligned teams clean data and courageous leadership even the most advanced technologies turn into expensive illusions.</p><p>This novel doubles as a <strong>transformation playbook for the modern enterprise</strong> revealing:</p><ul><li>Why tax finance IT and operations must evolve into <strong>Fusion Teams</strong></li><li>Why the future belongs to <strong>Fusion Professionals</strong>-those who speak the languages of data systems tax processes and leadership</li><li>Why e-invoicing will reshape organisational DNA</li><li>How AI's hype collides with the harsh reality of organisational unreadiness</li><li>How politics destroys transformation long before technology does</li></ul><p>Through corporate warfare emotional truths and high-stakes decision-making <em>Extinction of Tax As We Know It</em> exposes what global professionals live through but rarely speak about.</p><p>This is the book for:</p><p>CFOs tax leaders ERP teams technologists consultants auditors transformation professionals and every ambitious Gen Z or millennial shaping the future of work.</p><p>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.</p>