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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/
Subscribe: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe/
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.
Episodes
139 episodes
TTPP129: How to Improve Your Confidence in Your Tax Research and Technical Positions
Many tax professionals I speak to tell me they don’t feel confident when it comes to looking into technical points and reaching tax conclusions.In this episode, I share why I think many people lack confidence in this area before sharing ...
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TTPP128: Advice from Two Tolley’s Taxation’s Rising Stars: How to Win and Excel in Your Early Career with Charlie Friend
In this episode, Jack Bonehill (2023 Taxation’s Rising Star winner) is joined by Charlie Friend (2025 Taxation’s Rising Star winner) to share their advice on how to excel early in your tax career, progress quickly, and creat...
TTPP127: Free Tax Advice Issue in Accountancy Firms: Getting a Fee or Other Recognition with Head of Tax David Maslen
In accountancy firms, tax teams can easily give away advice for free, often with no recognition, to clients of the wider firm. This can cause friction and can be difficult to manage. In this episode, host Jack Bonehill is joined by David Maslen...
TTPP126: Nov 2025 Budget Rant (Tax): Stop Tinkering and Tackle the Charlatons (with MTD Therapy)
In this episode of The Tax Professionals Podcast, host Jack Bonehill joined MTD Therapy, a community for accountants and tax advisors, for an unfiltered discussion — sometimes full-on...
TTPP125: How to Turn Tax Jargon into Plain English Advice that Clients Love
Your advice is probably full of unnecessary tax jargon without you even realising it. However, you can use simpler language without losing meaning — and your advice will be much better for it. In this episode, host Jack Bonehill identifies the ...
TTPP124: Two Questions That Make Your Tax Advice Instantly Better in Your Clients' Eyes
You might be giving technically perfect tax advice — but if it’s too long or too complicated, it won’t land well with clients.In this episode, Jack Bonehill shares a real story where two simple questions helped turn a colleague’s advice ...
TTPP123: Scaling Claritas Tax From 0 to 100 People: The Story by Founder Iain Wright
Claritas Tax started in 2012 as a one-person venture. Today, it’s a 100-strong firm with eight offices across the UK. In this episode, Iain Wright, founder of Claritas, shares the journey from leaving a safe career path to building arguably the...
TTPP122: My 5 Step Process for Tax Research That I Use Every Time
Want to get better at tax research? In this episode, I share my five-step process to always get to the answer — and show you how it worked in a tricky but real client case so you can start using it yourself. Tax Research Masterc...
TTPP121: Being a Tax Editor: What It's Like and Advice to Become One with Andrew Rainford
From this episode, learn what a Tax Editor does and hear advice on how to become one. Andrew Rainford – Tax Editor at Lefebvre for over ten years, shares what he enjoys, the challenges, and the different types of tax-editing roles that exist. T...
TTPP120: Using AI in Tax Research: How to Use Effectively, Benefits and Safeguards with Tony Court
AI tools for tax research: the role they can play, how to use them well, and the safeguards to avoid getting things wrong and manage risk – this is what’s covered by this episode. AI can help save time, make our lives easier, and make tasks les...
TTPP119: From In-House Tax Apprentice to Manager: How To Succeed with an Unconventional Tax Career with Chloe Radcliffe-Scott
Chloe Radcliffe-Scott has made a success of her squiggly tax career to date, despite living with a long-term health condition, Crohn’s. She started off as an in-house tax apprentice, before moving to accountancy practices, back to in-house and ...
TTPP117: Become a Better Tax Professional With My Lessons From Having a Side Hustle
This episode is mainly a slice of my story – from childhood, to tax, to side hustle – and I thought you might find this insight interesting, learn a few tips along the way, particularly around winning tax work, business development (BD) and hea...
TTPP118: How She Reinvented Herself, Her Tax Career and Created Amazing Team Culture with Sehjal Gupta [Tax Career Success Secrets Series]
Sehjal’s divorce supercharged her tax career, going from tax consultant to director in three years. Hear her story, how she did it, how she’s created a team with a culture where people don’t leave, and her advice if you want to be successful in...
TTPP116: Growing and Scaling a Tax Team: Advice, Stories and Tips with David Francis, Partner at Grant Thornton
This episode is focussed on growing or scaling a tax team in a professional services firm – something which is not natural for us as tax professionals. Our guest, David Francis, Partner and Head of Tax Dispute Resolution at Grant Thornton, shar...
5 Skills to Master Early in Your Tax Career (TTPP49 Re-release)
Masterclasses for Tax Professionals: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclassesShow notes: thetaxprofes...
TTPP115: How to be an Excellent Tax Junior, Graduate, Trainee or Apprentice with Olivia Pryer
This episode is all about how to be an excellent ‘tax junior’. By tax junior, I mean someone in the early stages of their career, including tax trainees, tax graduates, and tax apprentices. We are joined by Olivia Pryer, who was an excellent ta...
TTPP114: Pass Your CTA Exams by Not Being One of These 10 Types of Students with Nitin Rabheru
There are common reasons why, time and time again, students fail their Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) exams. To explain these, Nitin and I have created the “10 types of bad CTA students”, and to make it more memorable, we have assigned a name (hop...
TTPP113: Exceptional Tax Technical Skills: Key Benefits and Why You Should Develop Yours
I share the key benefits of exceptional tax technical ability is and why you should aim to have this, illustrated through a real client story with highs, lows, disappointment, and me being considered a charlatan, by two lawyers. But who was rig...
TTPP112: Winning Tax Work: From 0 Clients to Hundreds in 4 Years with James Edwards
Hear how James Edwards has won so much tax work that he’s become too busy, so that you can win more work yourself.Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP112...
Podcast Break for Christmas, Recommended Eps from 2024, and Update From Me
Info re Christmas podcast break, when the next episode will be, what the next two episodes will be, recommended eps from 2024 to listen to if you haven't already, and mini update from me.Show notes:
TTPP111: HMRC Tax Fraud Investigations: What COP9 Is and How To Prevent Disaster with Lucy Sauvage
Better serve your clients, should they be caught up in tax fraud or a Code of Practice 9 (COP9) situation. Lucy Sauvage, our guest for this episode, explains what COP9 is, what a typical COP9 enquiry looks like, advice to prevent you messing up...
TTPP110: Has HMRC's ADR Become Pointless or Worthwhile to Solve a Tax Dispute? with Barbara Bento
Learn about HMRC’s alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process, which you can use to help solve your client’s tax disputes with HMRC – but is it worthwhile or is it a waste of time? Barbara Bento, our expert guest, explains.Show notes: ...
TTPP109: One Year Into Being Tax Partner - What Did it Look Like? With Ele Theochari of Blick Rothenberg
Ele recently completed her first year of being a tax partner. Hear what her first year looked like, which will help you decide whether being a tax partner is for you AND will teach you a masterclass in how you can be successful as a tax partner...
TTPP108: How to Conquer all Types of Imposter Syndrome for Tax Career Success & Happiness with Estelle Read
From this episode, you will learn what the different types of impose syndrome are, how they may be negatively impacting your tax career/your life, and how to deal with them. Our expert guest for this episode, Estelle Read, shares all of this wi...
TTPP107: Most Desired Skills and Attributes re Tax Professionals by Accounting Firms with Maisie and Sam from ProTax
Find out what the most valued skills and attributes are by employers of tax professionals, with Jack Bonehill and Sam Minor and Maisie Horrell from Pro-Tax Recruitment. After listening to this episode, you can be more strategic about what skill...