Choose a job role (or career path) with which you are familiar. In what ways has this role 1) already changed in the digital economy, and 2) be likely to change further in the future?
The digital technology change the world so quickly in various way, like the way people purchase things, as the same time, it also changed many careers, for instance, how tax consultant do their job. In the last few century, people who doing the tax consultant job have to collect all the new tax information that might be used in their working time via newspaper or some printed policy, and give advice to their client face to face. This process waste lot of time on extra working like having conversation with different people to get the latest information or find new policy from different government department, also it take lot of time on sharing information with other tax consultants.
But in recent years, especially in recent two decades, the digital technology greatly improved the situation. Tax consultant start to use some special APP to post the information which they know it might help other people who doing the same career, besides that, tax consultants can collect the information they need about new published policy from government website, and then give advice to their client via an email directly instead of have conversation face to face, help taxpayers fill the tax forms by video call. Instead of deliver these taxpayers forms to the government tax department hand by hand, now tax consultants can automatically upload information by internet.
Although there are so many advantages that already helped tax consultants improve their work efficiency, it still not enough. The amount of multinational corporations growing faster and faster, it is a quite hard problem to get all the information in different countries for tax consultants because there is a lot of cross border transactions, it might be a challenge in the next decades. In the future, tax consultants could find all tax related information or new published policy from different countries, ignore the border. Also, share information between tax consultants would be more effectively, and could contacting clients worldwide, not only be limited in one particular country. The digital business world have already changed the world impressively, and it will keep going to change more and more careers not only the tax consultants.
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