TTPP106: My Worst Client Experience and 5 Takeaways to Improve Your Tax Advice
Update: 2024-09-15
Description
Learn 5 takeaways to provide better tax advice from my worst client experience to date. Hear the story and the lessons.
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Rough timings
- Episode intro
- (5:15 ) Story about a bad experience relating to a bad tax-advisory client that I had back in 2018, which was the richest learning experience for me re improving my advisory skills
- (10:00 ) Five lessons/takeaways from the experience to help you become better at providing tax advice:
- (11:00 ) Lesson 1: Being technically correct doesn’t make the advice good – it’s just an essential part
- (12:00 ) Lesson 2: Your advice should be workable and what is meant by this
- (13:00 ) Lesson 3: Your advice should be definitive
- (14:00 ) Lesson 4: You should talk in the client’s language and bespoke your advice in all respects
- (15:15 ) Lesson 5: Longer advice does not equal more valuable advice
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