The Tax Professionals Podcast

<p>This podcast helps tax professionals, typically by helping you become a better tax professional, helping you pass the ATT and CTA exams, or helping you decide what you want to do with your tax career.<br /><br />Episodes are released bi-weekly, released on Mondays, and include a mix of solo and guest episodes.<br /><br />Jack Bonehill, CTA, hosts the podcast. He's an employment tax specialist, working in the area since 2015, and won Tolley's Taxation's Rising Star award in 2023.</p><p> </p><p>Website: <a href="https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/">https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/</a> </p><p> </p><p>Subscribe: <a href="https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe/">https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe/</a> </p><p> </p><p>Tax Skills Masterclasses: <a href="https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses/">https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses/</a><br /><br /> Sub Series: Tax Career Success Secrets, sharing the secrets behind tax-career success, and Tax Role Insights, giving you an insider's view into the different available tax roles.<br /><br /></p>

TTPP125: How to Turn Tax Jargon into Plain English Advice that Clients Love

Send us a text Your advice is probably full of unnecessary tax jargon without you even realising it. However, you can use simpler language without losing meaning — and your advice will be much better for it. In this episode, host Jack Bonehill identifies the overly complex wording in a real piece of tax advice and shows how the same points can be written in plain English that clients actually understand and will love you for. Episode show notes The Tax Lab: free webinars to improve your tax s...

10-27
17:21

TTPP124: Two Questions That Make Your Tax Advice Instantly Better in Your Clients' Eyes

Send us a text You might be giving technically perfect tax advice — but if it’s too long or too complicated, it won’t land well with clients. In this episode, Jack Bonehill shares a real story where two simple questions helped turn a colleague’s advice from technical to client-friendly. You can use these questions to instantly make your advice clearer, shorter, and more valuable from a client’s perspective. If you want to deliver better advice that clients truly value — this episode is for yo...

10-12
10:29

TTPP123: Scaling Claritas Tax From 0 to 100 People: The Story by Founder Iain Wright

Send us a text Claritas Tax started in 2012 as a one-person venture. Today, it’s a 100-strong firm with eight offices across the UK. In this episode, Iain Wright, founder of Claritas, shares the journey from leaving a safe career path to building arguably the UK’s fastest-growing specialist tax firm. We talk about the first business plan, the earliest hires, how Claritas scaled, the challenges of competing without a big brand, and the trust it takes to let go of work in order to grow. S...

10-05
47:24

TTPP122: My 5 Step Process for Tax Research That I Use Every Time

Send us a text Want to get better at tax research? In this episode, I share my five-step process to always get to the answer — and show you how it worked in a tricky but real client case so you can start using it yourself. Tax Research Masterclass: Go to thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/trm for details and to enrol. Show notes: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/ttpp122/ Timings [00:00] Introduction — why tax research feels overwhelming [00:00:22] My 5-step process in action: rea...

09-07
16:23

TTPP121: Being a Tax Editor: What It's Like and Advice to Become One with Andrew Rainford

Send us a text From this episode, learn what a Tax Editor does and hear advice on how to become one. Andrew Rainford – Tax Editor at Lefebvre for over ten years, shares what he enjoys, the challenges, and the different types of tax-editing roles that exist. Take a listen if you’re interested in hearing about different tax roles or have a specific interest in editing. Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP121 Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe Tax skills courses...

08-31
41:35

TTPP120: Using AI in Tax Research: How to Use Effectively, Benefits and Safeguards with Tony Court

Send us a text AI tools for tax research: the role they can play, how to use them well, and the safeguards to avoid getting things wrong and manage risk – this is what’s covered by this episode. AI can help save time, make our lives easier, and make tasks less frustrating as part of the research process. We are joined by Tony Court, who has worked in tax for over 40 years, and who has been testing and helping refine a tax-research AI tool. From his experience, he has learn a few tricks along ...

05-25
53:50

TTPP119: From In-House Tax Apprentice to Manager: How To Succeed with an Unconventional Tax Career with Chloe Radcliffe-Scott

Send us a text Chloe Radcliffe-Scott has made a success of her squiggly tax career to date, despite living with a long-term health condition, Crohn’s. She started off as an in-house tax apprentice, before moving to accountancy practices, back to in-house and then also swapping specialism from corporation tax to employment taxes! You don’t need a traditional, linear path to have success, and Chloe shares her story which proves that along with her associated career advice. Show notes: thetaxpro...

05-11
01:02:59

TTPP117: Become a Better Tax Professional With My Lessons From Having a Side Hustle

Send us a text This episode is mainly a slice of my story – from childhood, to tax, to side hustle – and I thought you might find this insight interesting, learn a few tips along the way, particularly around winning tax work, business development (BD) and hear what I’ve learnt from the podcast that has helped me with my tax career and may help you with yours too. The episode is from me being interviewed by Craig McKeller, for The Professional Speaks podcast, and he kindly agreed for me to sha...

04-27
44:26

TTPP118: How She Reinvented Herself, Her Tax Career and Created Amazing Team Culture with Sehjal Gupta [Tax Career Success Secrets Series]

Send us a text Sehjal’s divorce supercharged her tax career, going from tax consultant to director in three years. Hear her story, how she did it, how she’s created a team with a culture where people don’t leave, and her advice if you want to be successful in your own tax career. Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP118 Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse ...

04-13
55:01

TTPP116: Growing and Scaling a Tax Team: Advice, Stories and Tips with David Francis, Partner at Grant Thornton

Send us a text This episode is focussed on growing or scaling a tax team in a professional services firm – something which is not natural for us as tax professionals. Our guest, David Francis, Partner and Head of Tax Dispute Resolution at Grant Thornton, shares his experiences and advice for how to grow a tax team, so that you can do the same. Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP116 Masterclasses for tax professionals: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses Subscribe: t...

03-30
01:06:09

5 Skills to Master Early in Your Tax Career (TTPP49 Re-release)

Send us a text Masterclasses for Tax Professionals: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP49 Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse You’ll Learn 5 skills that are important to master early on in your tax careerSome tips to help you improve these skillsRough Timings (2:30) Story (relevant!)(6:30) Skill 1 - Tax Resear...

03-17
29:20

TTPP115: How to be an Excellent Tax Junior, Graduate, Trainee or Apprentice with Olivia Pryer

Send us a text This episode is all about how to be an excellent ‘tax junior’. By tax junior, I mean someone in the early stages of their career, including tax trainees, tax graduates, and tax apprentices. We are joined by Olivia Pryer, who was an excellent tax junior, loved by her boss, and she joins us to share her mindset, approach and tips, and help you or your colleges be an excellent tax junior and asset to the team. Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP115 Subscribe: thetaxpro...

03-03
42:46

TTPP114: Pass Your CTA Exams by Not Being One of These 10 Types of Students with Nitin Rabheru

Send us a text There are common reasons why, time and time again, students fail their Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) exams. To explain these, Nitin and I have created the “10 types of bad CTA students”, and to make it more memorable, we have assigned a name (hopefully fun names) to each one. In the episode, we talk through each bad type of student to help you identify any bad traits in yourself or you staff, and then we summarise our advice to increase the changes of you or your staff passing. S...

02-17
01:06:40

TTPP113: Exceptional Tax Technical Skills: Key Benefits and Why You Should Develop Yours

Send us a text I share the key benefits of exceptional tax technical ability is and why you should aim to have this, illustrated through a real client story with highs, lows, disappointment, and me being considered a charlatan, by two lawyers. But who was right? Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP113 Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse You’ll Learn (2:30...

02-03
24:29

TTPP112: Winning Tax Work: From 0 Clients to Hundreds in 4 Years with James Edwards

Send us a text Hear how James Edwards has won so much tax work that he’s become too busy, so that you can win more work yourself. Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP112 Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse You’ll Learn Into from James(3:45) James’s beliefs around winning tax work(6:30) Winning work in the beginning and did James tax on too many bad fit cl...

01-20
56:51

Podcast Break for Christmas, Recommended Eps from 2024, and Update From Me

Send us a text Info re Christmas podcast break, when the next episode will be, what the next two episodes will be, recommended eps from 2024 to listen to if you haven't already, and mini update from me. Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/Xmas24 Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe Recommended Episodes from 2024 TTPP96: Why She Failed One CTA Paper Multiple Times but Then Passed and Qualified with Amy Rylance TTPP98: How and Why I Moved Tax Role After Being Loyal for 7 ...

12-09
10:46

TTPP111: HMRC Tax Fraud Investigations: What COP9 Is and How To Prevent Disaster with Lucy Sauvage

Send us a text Better serve your clients, should they be caught up in tax fraud or a Code of Practice 9 (COP9) situation. Lucy Sauvage, our guest for this episode, explains what COP9 is, what a typical COP9 enquiry looks like, advice to prevent you messing up a COP9 enquiry, examples of common tax frauds and a story where Lucy’s client left HMRC with almost no choice but to pursue a criminal investigation into them. Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP111 Subscribe: thetaxprofessio...

11-25
54:33

TTPP110: Has HMRC's ADR Become Pointless or Worthwhile to Solve a Tax Dispute? with Barbara Bento

Send us a text Learn about HMRC’s alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process, which you can use to help solve your client’s tax disputes with HMRC – but is it worthwhile or is it a waste of time? Barbara Bento, our expert guest, explains. Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP110 Masterclasses for tax professionals: Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse You...

11-11
58:30

TTPP109: One Year Into Being Tax Partner - What Did it Look Like? With Ele Theochari of Blick Rothenberg

Send us a text Ele recently completed her first year of being a tax partner. Hear what her first year looked like, which will help you decide whether being a tax partner is for you AND will teach you a masterclass in how you can be successful as a tax partner. Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP109 Masterclasses for tax professionals: Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionals...

10-28
59:41

TTPP108: How to Conquer all Types of Imposter Syndrome for Tax Career Success & Happiness with Estelle Read

Send us a text From this episode, you will learn what the different types of impose syndrome are, how they may be negatively impacting your tax career/your life, and how to deal with them. Our expert guest for this episode, Estelle Read, shares all of this with you, after many years of helping professionals that fix burnout, remove stress, and perform better. Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP108 Tax Advice Masterclass – Details and Enrol Here Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcas...

10-13
01:03:39

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