Just used one of the new tax/etc payment ATMs at a large Japanese bank which wants to eliminate 5 minutes of human effort per payment and, while it probably should have been a web app, extraordinarily better execution than one would have seen 15 years ago.
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And yeah this is still *entirely* too much human labor by four people (taxpayer, accountant, bank employee, clerk at tax office who will inevitably review it) to do an API call but baby steps.
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Yeah, but the hard bits are convincing the NTA to allow you to turn in electronic data with a tax settlement (the bank lobbied them for years; made the press), not disrupt existing workflows nationwide, and get distribution to 10M+ bank customers. Tech is boring.
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