TTPP100: The First 9 Years of My Tax Career: Obsessed with Own Development

From Tax Graduate to Director: a deep dive into my (Jack Bonehill’s) tax career to date. Listen for the overview and insight

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Timings

Finding my first tax job after university

• (8:00) Chapter 1: My first tax job (which was for an employment-taxes boutique):
  • Being in the filing room for a whole week
  • Setting the foundations of my tax career (ATT, Excel, but also getting tinnitus)
  • Why I left
  • How much I was paid
• (18:45) Chapter 2: Dains – from Tax Assistant to Tax Senior Manager (7 years)
  • Sideways move – was it for more money?
  • Not liking being an employment tax specialist so early on
  • Becoming CTA qualified
  • Feeling lost after CTA but how a business coach helped
  • The start of reading books to help with my career – and why I think these made such a big impact on my career
  • The three core areas to be a successful tax professional
  • Becoming a people manager – my aim and delegation
  • Job offers and potential other jobs
• (43:45) Chapter 3: The Tax Professionals Podcast, training and related
  • How I came to start the podcast and why
  • Reducing my tax job hours to 4 days a week and starting doing masterclasses for tax professionals
  • Opportunities I’ve gotten from the podcast
• (55:15) Chapter 4: PKF Smith Cooper – becoming an Employment Tax Director

Resources

Episodes mentioned:

• TTPP98: How and Why I Moved Tax Role After Being Loyal for 7 Years (Interviewed by Sam Hart)
• TTPP 1: How to Undertake Effective Tax Research
• TTPP49: 5 Skills to Master Early in Your Tax Career
• TTPP76: Why and How to Take Control of Your Tax Career with Charlie Friend

VERY useful books for your tax career:

• The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
• The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People Workbook
• The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
• Atomic Habits

Chapters

• 0:00 EPISODE 100
• 4:34 After uni, before first tax job
• 8:33 Chapter 1: My first tax job (which was for an employment-taxes boutique)
• 18:52 Dains, where I stayed for 7 years, from Tax Assistant to Tax Senior Manager
• 36:56 Dains - becoming a people manager for the first time
• 44:00 Chapter 3: The Tax Professionals Podcast, training and related
• 55:38 PKF Smith Cooper