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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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Tax Skills Masterclasses: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses/
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
TTPP104: Becoming the Most Qualified UK Tax Advisor: Was It Worth It? with Rowan Morrow-McDade
Rowan, our guest for this episode, is the most qualified UK tax professional. He’s got 8 qualifications, and he is currently doing his 9th. Why did he do so many qualifications, and how has it benefitted his career? By the end of the episode, you should have a good idea of the answer to the question: working in tax, should you do another professional qualification? This is a question I pondered for a while earlier in my career, and it’s a hard one to answer.
Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP104
Masterclasses for Tax Professionals (Tax Research and Tax Advice): https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses/
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Timings
- Overview of Rowan’s tax career
- (8:15) Is it easier to build an audit business than tax business?
- (9:30) How did Rowan become the most qualified UK tax professional. What motivated him?
- (17:30) How have all these qualifications benefited his tax career?
- (19:00) Should you do more qualifications or spend your time elsewhere as a tax professional. How many qualifications should you do? Is there a point where doing another is not that beneficial?
- (25:00) Benefits of being a mixed tax professional
- (27:30) Essential qualification to have as a tax professional, and nice ones to have, based on specialism/area of tax worked in
- (39:00) Mini rant about lawyers’ tax knowledge (where they aren’t specifically tax)
- (47:45) Bad advice given to CTA students and a bit about using legislation
- (53:00) How Rowan got his interesting gigs like being on Times Radio, being interviewed by Vogue and speaking to MPs in parliament
Me – Jack Bonehill