Fun thread with Japanese accountants, condensed for length/comprehensibility: Accountant: "Can you mail us Document X? The tax agency requested you produce it." Me: "I don't have X. I have Y, which I think is often substitutable for X in government processes. Would that work?"
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Accountant: "Oh the tax agency can be very particular about these things. I'm sure when they asked for the X they really needed the X." *30 minutes passes* Accountant: "Apologies I talked to one of the grumpy old men around the office and he told me off. Yes, a Y works. Also..."
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Accountant: "... He idly wondered if in a past life you were a judicial scrivener or something." Me: "I like to think I am a talented amateur."
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If this software thing doesn't work out I might have to sit one of the professional exams in Japan and spend the rest of my career getting dumbfounded looks from government offices while doing routine paperwork filings.
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While that's a joke I did look with a certain degree of seriousness at getting a CPA just so I would be able to stop saying "I am not an accountant but..." prior to giving accounting advice. It turns out that that is non-trivial.
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Also, it seems even accountants are not allowed to play accountants on the Internet. The world is mad.
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Replying to @ztnra
That’s enrolled agents, right? I literally took the practice test and passed, but before I took the real test they put some actual requirements in, and I lost motivation to become one for real.
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Gotcha! Thanks; forgot that that was part of the ubiquitous disclaimers on the bottom of emails. (And what a weird equilibrium.)
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