The Tax Professionals Podcast
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.
Episodes are released bi-weekly, released on Mondays, and include a mix of solo and guest episodes.
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.
Website: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/
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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.
The Tax Professionals Podcast
TTPP93: Ex-CIOT Examiner Shares Insight into the Role and How to Become One with Sam Hart [Tax Role Insights, Ep 5]
Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP93
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You’ll Learn
- About Sam and her career
- (11:15) Starting to talk about the CIOT examiner role, and how examiners are ‘engaged’
- (13:45) The exam writing process
- (18:45) Why Sam decided to become a CIOT/CTA examiner
- 21:30 Is there a better way to assess tax students instead of exams?
- (25:45) Marking exams, managing time here, how pay works for marking, and whether you need to know the full syllabus to be an examiner (how wide does your technical knowledge need to be)
- (29:00) Sam’s advice if you want to become a CIOT examiner and what Sam liked about being an examiner
- (35:00) How your technical tax competence, knowledge and skill is assessed
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