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You’ll Learn

• How to get the motivation you need to pass the ATT or CTA resit
• How to self-reflect and be honest with yourself to figure out why you didn’t pass last time so the same doesn’t happen again
• How to approach and prepare a resit to give yourself the best opportunity to pass 
• The most important point Nitin wants you to take away from the episode

Resources & Other ATT/CTA Episodes

• Free Step-by-step guide to creating your own revision summary/folder
• TTPP30b: How to Pass the CTA OMB Advanced Technical Paper
• 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!)

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The three episodes:

• TTPP30a: How to Pass an ATT/CTA Resit – live on Wednesday 21 July
• TTPP30b: How to Pass the CTA OMB Advanced Technical Paper– live on Monday 26 July
• TTPP30c: How to Pass the CTA APS Paper – live on Monday 2 August

Other ATT/CTA Episodes and Resources

• Free Step-by-step guide to creating your own revision summary/folder
•  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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Tax Professionals Book Club: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/BookClub 

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You’ll Learn

• The most valuable lesson Ray learnt after joining PwC from HMRC
• What being CIOT President entails
• Career advice Ray would give to his younger self, and the best piece of career advice Ray has received
• Ray’s advice on how to have a successful career

Resources

Ray emphasised the importance of feedback in the episode, so you may be interested in episode 3 of the podcast, How to Obtain Good Quality Feedback (and Why You Should Ask for More!).

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Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP28

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You’ll Learn

• Practical tips you can apply to provide great tax advice on grey areas
• How understanding the client’s objectives, drivers and appetite for risk will help you provide the best tax advice on a grey area for that client
• Some words that you can use to make it clear to the client that the position doesn’t have a definitive or correct answer

Episodes Mentioned Within the Episode

TTPP1: How to Undertake Effective Tax Research

TTPP6: How to Build and Maintain Strong Tax Knowledge to Excel as a Tax Professional

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

TTPP18: How to Explain Tax Rules and Concepts Clear 

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You’ll Learn

• What could be getting in the way of your career success
• How to figure out what career success looks like for you and how to achieve it
• James’ 7-step solutions to achieve career success
• Key skills that James considers universally important if you want to achieve career success
• James’ top tips to progress your career

Resources

Free course

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Related episodes: 

• TTPP 16: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Tax Professionals
• TTPP 20: You’re Tax Qualified! Continue Your Career Progression Post Qualification (How to)
• TTPP 23: The Benefits of Having Your Own Tax Specialism/Niche (& Tips to Choose Yours!) with Sofia Thomas

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You’ll Learn

• How to avoid potentially embarrassing mistakes (the Tax-Research Sins) when doing tax research
• The consequences of doing the Tax-Research Sins
• What you should do instead

Resources

TTPP1: How to Undertake Tax Research Effectively

HMRC manuals

Useful online dictionary (I personally use this as I find it to be the best)

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You’ll Learn

• How you can help businesses protect themselves against being liable for the CCO, and the importance of a risk assessment
• HMRC insight into the CCO (including how HMRC are enforcing it, the amount of live CCO investigations, and when we can expect to see the first prosecution)
• Myths and misconceptions around CCO (including incorrect belief that it only applies to certain types of businesses)
• The importance of, and who is considered, an associated person

Resources

HMRC guidance: Corporate offences for failing to prevent criminal facilitation of tax evasion

Criminal Finances Act 2017: Part 3 – Corporate offences of failure to prevent facilitation of tax evasion  

Sam on the Taxing Matters podcast talking about CCO: https://www.rpc.co.uk/perspectives/tax-take/taxing-matters-the-new-corporate-criminal-offence-of-failure-to-prevent-tax-evasion/ 

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You’ll Learn

• What the requirements of CPD are for CIOT/ATT membership
• Tips on how you can approach CPD to meet the requirements
• Some effective but effortless ways to do CPD
• What the CIOT & ATT’s guidance says counts as CPD

Resources

Please note that some of the links included on this page are affiliate links. If you purchase through an affiliate link, I will get a small commission which will go towards the costs of running, and will support, the podcast, at no increased cost to you.

Therefore, if you enjoy, have gotten benefit from, or would just like to support the podcast (and are going to purchase any of the below anyway), it would be appreciated if you purchase through the links on this page.Books mentioned in the episode:

• Successful Consulting by Anna Hipkis
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R Covey
• Business Storytelling – From Hype to Hack by Jyoti Guptara
• The Essential Managers Handbook

Podcast episodes mentioned in the episode:

• TTPP 16: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Tax Professionals
• TTPP 21: How to Publish Articles in Tax Magazines and Reap the Career Benefits with Hannah Hurley

ATT/CIOT CPD guidance

ATT/CIOT CPD form

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The Go To Expert by Heather Townsend (the book recommended by Sofia in the episode)

You’ll Learn

• Why having a tax specialism/niche is beneficial to your tax career, and why Sofia is FOR having a tax niche
• The opportunities that specialising has provided Sofia
• Sofia’s tips to help you chose a tax specialism that is right for you (there is a real gem here!)
• Whether there is such a thing as being too niche
• Sofia’s tips on what to do if you are thinking about starting your own tax business (including how to go about getting your first tax clients!)

Resources

Other episodes of the podcast which may benefit you:

• TTPP 20: You’re Tax Qualified! Continue Your Career Progression Post Qualification (How to)
• TTPP 16: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Tax Professionals
• The Go To Expert by Heather Townsend (the book recommended by Sofia in the episode) 

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Summary of the tips from this episode:  https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/8revisiontips 

You’ll Learn

·         8 revision tips to help you pass the CTA/ATT exams

·         Things you can do to minimise time wasted when revising (i.e. being effective and productive)

·         How to get maximum benefit from practice questions and past papers you do

·         Ways to keep your revision interesting to keep you motivated

Resources
Step-by-step guide to create your own ATT/CTA revision folder

Summary of the tips in this episode

Other episodes to help with the exams:

•  TTPP 19: How to Pass the May 2021 ATT/CTA Exams with Nitin Rabheru
• TTPP 5: How to Pass the November 2020 ATT and CTA Exams (Open Book for the First Time) with Nitin Rabheru