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You’ll Learn

• (2:50) An overview of Nimesh’s career
• (19:30) How Nimesh went from Tax Senior Manager to Partner to CEO, without trying for promotion
• (30:30) How Nimesh started working ‘smarter’ rather than harder
• (33:30) The ironic reality when Nimesh started to properly delegate, which he wishes he did sooner, plus a discussion around delegation
• (39:30) An amazing way to improve your staff’s confidence, and a powerful piece of advice a colleague provided Nimesh which gave him the freedom to develop
• (45:30) Advice Nimesh would give to his younger self, knowing what he knows now
• (49:00) Nimesh’s final tips to help you improve your tax career

Resources (Other Episodes of Tax Career Success Secrets)

TTPP35: From Deloitte Partner to OTS Tax Director, with Bill Dodwell (Tax Career Success Secrets Ep 1)

 TTPP36: His Journey in Tax to CIOT President with Peter Rayney (Tax Career Success Secrets Ep 2)

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You’ll Learn

• (4:00) Why I think it’s a mistake to avoid using tax legislation
• (6:30) The different types of legislation and why knowing this is important (my embarrassing story)
• (12:00) My advice on how to go from legislation rookie to being able to use it well
• (21:30) Why you should not assume words have their ‘usual’ English meaning in legislation, and tips to find the specific definitions given to words
• (24:50) Rules of statutory interpretation
• (28:50) My secret tip to really ramp up your legislation-using skills

Resources

How to Undertake Effective Tax Research (episode 1)

How to Build and Maintain Strong Tax Knowledge (episode 6) 

Explanation of different types of legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/understanding-legislation 

More info on rules of statutory interpretation: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ocw/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=68342§ion=3 

Interpretation Act 1978 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/30/contents 

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You’ll Learn

• (2:45) An overview of Peter’s career, including his view on being a ‘mixed’ tax expert (as opposed to a specialist) 
• (15:30) Peter tips for good tax writing
• (21:15) How tax writing has positively impacted Peter’s career, and how you can get involved in writing too
• (27:00) How he has kept technical work at the core of what he does
• (29:15) His role as National Tax Technical Partner 
• (33:15) A great piece of career advice Peter received
• (37:30) 3 tips from peter to help you progress your tax career

Resources

TTPP35: From Deloitte Partner to OTS Tax Director, with Bill Dodwell (Tax Career Success Secrets Ep 1)

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You’ll Learn

• (2:45) About Bill’s career
• (20:00) About his role as Deloitte’s Head of Tax Policy
• (23:00) The value of becoming ATT/CTA qualified
• (25:00) The qualities of a good tax advisor
• (31:00) Bill’s advice on dealing with mistakes or errors
• (39:00) The most important skills to be a partner
• (48:00) Bill’s 3 tips to help you progress your tax career

Resources

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TTPP29: The Road to CIOT President with Ray McCann, Ex-CIOT President

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Delegation form: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/delegationform 

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You’ll Learn

• (4:20) Common barriers and misconceptions around delegation
• (11:40) Benefits of and reasons to delegate
• (16:00) My eureka moment and how you can take advantage of this when delegating tax work

Resources & Related Episodes

Delegation Form

TTPP 4: How to be a Better Delegator to Progress your Career with Mike Clayton

TTPP 3: How to Obtain Good Quality Feedback (and Why You Should Ask for More!)

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You’ll Learn (and timings)

• Martin’s first networking event (roughly 6 mins 15 seconds into the episode)
• Martin’s ingenious secret to spark conversations (roughly 12 mins 45)
• The one thing to never to at networking events (roughly 22 mins 40)
• Overcoming the anxiety (roughly 30 mins 30)
• What makes a good networking event (roughly 34 mins 20)
• My biggest takeaway from the discussion (roughly 42 mins 45)
• Martin’s top networking tip (roughly 44 mins 45)

Resources

Tax Professionals Book Club: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/bookclub

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You’ll Learn

• About the technical advisor vs the practical advisor
• Grahame’s tips on how to provide better tax advice
• How being a trusted advisor will improve the advice you provide to clients, and ways to become such an advisor

Resources

TTPP10: How to Write Good-Quality and Practical Tax Advice

TTPP18: How to Explain Tax Rules and Concepts Clear

TTPP28: Provide Great Tax Advice on Grey Areas (6 Tips!)

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You’ll Learn

• The three skills you should master to be a great tax advisor
• How to improve in each of these areas

Related Episodes:

Technical Ability 

• TTPP 1: How to Undertake Effective Tax Research
• TTPP 6: How to Build and Maintain Strong Tax Knowledge to Excel as a Tax Professional
• TTPP26: 8 Tax-Research Sins

Advisory

• TTPP 10: How to Write Good-Quality and Practical Tax Advice
• TTPP18: How to Explain Tax Rules & Concepts Clearly (to Help Others Understand!)
• TTPP28: Provide Great Tax Advice on Grey Areas (6 Tips!)

Sales

• TTPP11: How to Increase Your Chances of Winning/Converting Tax Work with Martyn Sloman (Without Being Pushy!!) 

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You’ll Learn

• Tips and advice on how to pass the CTA APS paper (particularly OMB)
• Difference between the Advanced Technical and the APS papers (including Nitin’s examples how you would present essentially the same information differently)
• How to structure an answer to the APS exam question
• The most important skill to master to pass the APS paper

Other Episodes and Resources

• Free Step-by-step guide to creating your own revision summary/folder
• TTPP30a: How to Pass an ATT/CTA Resit
• TTPP30b: How to Pass the CTA OMB Advanced Technical Paper
•  TTPP 5: How to Pass the November 2020 ATT and CTA Exams (Open Book for the First Time) with Nitin Rabheru
• TTPP 19: How to Pass the May 2021 ATT/CTA Exams with Nitin Rabheru
• TTPP 22: 8 CTA/ATT Revision Tips (Maximise the Benefit from your Revision Sessions!)

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You’ll Learn

• Tips and advice on how to pass the CTA Advanced Technical Paper (particularly OMB)
• The importance of, and how to, link together the chapters to prepare yourself for the exam
• Both Libby and Nitin’s number 1 tip to pass the exam

Other Episodes and Resources

• Free Step-by-step guide to creating your own revision summary/folder
• TTPP30a: How to Pass an ATT/CTA Resit
• TTPP30c: How to Pass the CTA OMB APS Paper
• TTPP 5: How to Pass the November 2020 ATT and CTA Exams (Open Book for the First Time) with Nitin Rabheru
• TTPP 19: How to Pass the May 2021 ATT/CTA Exams with Nitin Rabheru
• TTPP 22: 8 CTA/ATT Revision Tips (Maximise the Benefit from your Revision Sessions!)