Tax Manager New Tool

Adopting new tools is rarely a walk in the park 🥲. Moments of excitement are followed by feelings of anxiety and potentially frustration. That's normal. There are multiple psychological reasons why adopting new tools is challenging for us, tax people (but also for anybody else).

Think about the related cognitive load, fear of the unknown, our existing habits, any familiarity and change resistance ("we have done it this way for the last 10 years"), the projected learning curve, any perceived complexity, ...

When having virtual teas (yes, I am mindful of my stomach) with tax leaders, I hear the above objections often coming back. What's more, I regularly hear:

"Our organisation is not ready for the implementation of new tools 🫣"
or "This will not work in our type of organisation 😒".

All clear and well understood, but my standard reply to this is: "What is your plan B looking like?". In other words, if these objections or the overall maturity of your organisation prohibit the digitization and transformation of your tax function, what is the alternative plan looking like? Because we all know that "pause" or "wait and see" is not an option (anymore).

Back to the baby: the texture and taste of the 🥝 might be new, but it is full of vitamins and essential for the overall development of kids. When it comes to implementing the right tax tools, referring to vitamins is even a serious understatement. Proactive tax leaders fully understand that they are not a nice-to-have...

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