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Updated : February 16, 2021
The Future Envisioned by the Cloud. How Tax Accountants Disappeared from Estonia, a Small Eastern European Country
After the tax filing season, many people have been exposed to the world of accounting, and many of them may feel, once again, that tax returns are a hassle. In fact, there are countries in the world where there is no need to file a tax return.
Of course, this does not mean that the government is not functioning. Estonia, one of the three Baltic countries in Eastern Europe, is a country that does not require tax returns. And it is also one of the few countries in the world where there are no longer any tax accountants or accountants.
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There are countries where tax accountants have disappeared!
What is Estonia?
Basic Information on Estonia
Why tax accountants disappeared from Estonia
What is X-Road, Estonia's electronic system?
Why was X-Road created in Estonia?
First reason: scarcity of human resources.
Second reason: island nation with more than 1,500 islands
How to work without losing your job?
Occupations likely to continue to exist even as digitization progresses
Finally.
There are countries where tax accountants have disappeared!
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Of course, no such fantasy has occurred, such as a mysterious incident that caused accountants to be erased. There is a good reason for the disappearance of tax accountants and other professionals from Estonia. But first, let me give you a brief introduction to this unfamiliar country.
What is Estonia?
If you can remember where Estonia is located and what kind of country it is when you hear the name Estonia, you must be a serious world history buff or geography buff. However, this small country in Eastern Europe is currently the focus of worldwide attention.
From Japan, industry celebrities such as Mr. Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of Rakuten, Mr. Yasufumi Hirai, Executive Director of Cisco Systems, and Mr. Tetsuya Sanada, Executive Director of KLab, have visited to see the country.
Basic Information on Estonia
First, let's review some basic information about the country of Estonia.
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Location Estonia is one of the Baltic States in Eastern Europe, connected to Russia and Finland via the Gulf of Finland.
Major language Estonian (Finno-Ugric) is a language closely related to Finnish and also shares a common lineage with Hungarian. The dialects are divided between the north and south, with North Estonian, spoken in the capital city of Tallinn, being considered the standard language.
GDP Nominal GDP was 17.4 billion euros in 2012, and nominal GDP per capita was 13,000 euros in 2012.
Land Area 45,000 square kilometers (about 1/9 of Japan, less than three times the size of Shikoku)
Population Approximately 1,310,000 (Osaka had a population of 2,665,000 in 2010)
Inventions that would not exist without Estonia Skype (developed in Estonia's capital, Tallinn, by Nicholas Senstrom and Janus Friis)
Why tax accountants have disappeared from Estonia
Why have tax accountants disappeared from a country that is smaller than Japan and, in terms of population, about half the size of Osaka Prefecture? The reason lies in the government's digitization policy.
The reason why Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of Rakuten, Inc. and others visited Estonia for a study tour, which I introduced earlier, is also due to the advanced digitization of the government, which is rare in the world. From here, we will show you why tax accountants disappear when the government goes electronic.
What is Estonia's electronic system X-Road?
Citation: Data Exchange Layer X-Road
The current Estonian government activities are supported by a cloud computing system called X-Road. This database stores all kinds of public information about the population and can even track the bank balance of all citizens.
The key to this system is the ability to know the balance of all deposits.
Since the system knows the balance of all the people's deposits, it can automatically calculate all the taxable amounts. Thus, citizens can complete their tax returns simply by checking and approving their own tax payments from various terminals. Because these taxation processes can be calculated automatically, the need to hire a tax accountant has disappeared, and as a result, tax accountants and accountants have disappeared from Estonia.
Why X-Road was created in Estonia?
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Why was the X-Road created in Estonia? It is said that there are two reasons.
The first reason: scarcity of human resources.
The first is the scarcity of human resources in Estonia. There are several occupations that are always necessary to maintain a single nation. If the population is large, human resources can be allocated to them, but in order to maintain a country with a population half the size of Osaka Prefecture, the number of necessary occupations had to be reduced as much as possible.
As a result, a move was made to streamline government functions through digitization. In addition to tax returns, voting is also electronic in Estonia. This system was used for the 2011 elections in Estonia and for the European Parliament, where 24% of all votes were cast from 105 countries around the world.
The second reason: an island nation with more than 1,500 islands.
The large number of islands and the high cost of traveling to government offices to vote are said to be reasons for the shift to electronic voting. A small population and the high cost of physically moving citizens around the country due to the large number of islands are said to be the reasons why the Estonian government has become highly computerized.
How to work without losing your job
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According to a study submitted by Oxford University Martin, half of the 702 occupations that exist in the United States could be lost in the next 20 years. The report ranks the occupations from #1 to #702 in order of decreasing susceptibility to the impact of IT, and tax accountants are ranked a whopping 586th.
Let's take a look at this Oxford University study to see what is required of tax accountants even in an increasingly electronic world.
Professions likely to continue to exist even with the advance of digitization
Looking at the previous ranking from the top, i.e., in order of occupations that are not expected to disappear even with the use of IT, the first 10 are as follows
No. 1 Recreational therapist
No. 2 Front-line mechanics and repairmen
No. 3 Emergency management supervisor
No. 4 Mental Health and Drug User Support
No. 5 Hearing healthcare professionals
6th Occupational therapist
7th Prosthetist
8th Health care social worker
9th Oral surgery
No. 10 Firefighting Supervisor
From these results, the following two points may be pointed out as conditions for occupations that are unlikely to be lost even with the use of IT.
Work directly related to people (e.g., psychological issues)
Work related to cutting-edge technology
In other words, one possible answer is to continue to work even after the computerization of business, and to have skills that are more than just those of a tax accountant. In other words, the goal is to become a profession that is difficult to lose and a tax accountant who has the ability to be a tax accountant.
For example, becoming a tax accountant with skills in mental health and drug user support, which is the 4th ranked profession. In this way, having multiple things that one can do will help one to remain a sought-after person, even if the electronic world is moving forward.
In closing
With the advancement of information technology, our lives are becoming more efficient day by day. Someday, Japan may become an electronic country like Estonia. How should we work in such a time? Please think about it.
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