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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.

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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.

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Jack Bonehill

Previous Guests

Sehjal Gupta

Sehjal Gupta is a tax professional who has rapidly advanced her career from tax consultant to director within three years. Her career transformation was significantly influenced by personal challenges, including her divorce, which prompted a shift in her mindset and professional approach. Sehjal is known for her ability to create a positive team culture that retains talent and fosters growth. She has faced various challenges in her career, including being overlooked for promotions and dealing with workplace bullying and depression. Sehjal shares her insights and advice for success in the tax profession, emphasizing the importance of confidence and strategic career management.

David Francis

David Francis is a Partner and Head of Tax Dispute Resolution at Grant Thornton. He has extensive experience in the tax profession, particularly in leading teams and managing tax disputes. David is known for his strategic approach to growing tax teams and fostering a positive team culture. His insights into the tax industry and leadership philosophy make him a valuable resource for tax professionals looking to advance their careers.

Olivia Pryer

Olivia Pryer is a tax professional who has excelled in her early career as a tax junior. She is known for her impressive performance in tax compliance work and her proactive approach to self-learning and tax advisory roles. Olivia has been recognized for her contributions and is valued for her mindset and tips that help others in the tax profession.

Nitin Rabheru

Nitin Rabheru is a tax professional with expertise in preparing students for the Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) exams. He has collaborated with other professionals to identify common pitfalls that students face during their exam preparation. Nitin is known for his engaging approach to teaching and his ability to simplify complex tax concepts for better understanding.

Topics Discussed

tax career team culture career progression confidence in tax promotions mindset shift success tips growing a tax team scaling a tax team tax professionals tax dispute resolution leadership philosophy tax research explaining tax concepts tax advisory skills inspection and fact finding relationship building tax junior tax trainees tax graduates tax apprentices tax compliance tax advisory CTA exams bad CTA students student traits exam preparation

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TTPP118: How She Reinvented Herself, Her Tax Career and Created Amazing Team Culture with Sehjal Gupta [Tax Career Success Secrets Series]

April 13, 2025

Jack Bonehill

Sehjal Gupta

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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 your own tax career.

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP118

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Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse

You’ll Learn

Overview of Sehjal’s career
(9:00) Sehjal’s quick progression after her divorce, including the shift in mindset
(20:30) Confidence as a woman working in tax
(23:30) How Sehjal went from tax consultant to tax directly in three years – what’s her secret?
(26:30) Sehjal’s strengths which she’s taken advantage of in her career
(29:30) How Sehjal created a team culture where people don’t leave
(39:15) Difficulties in Sehjal’s career (overlooked for promotions, bullying, depression, etc)
(45:00) Promotions and “fitting in the box” for it
(48:15) Career advice Sehjal would give to her younger self, knowing what she knows now
(50:30) Sehjal’s number 1 tip if you want success in your tax career

Resources

Masterclasses for tax professionals:

Tax Research Masterclass – finding the answer to tax questions, using tax legislation and guidance
Tax Advice Masterclass – how to provide high-quality tax advice that clients value

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Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP118

Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe

Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse

You’ll Learn

Overview of Sehjal’s career
(9:00) Sehjal’s quick progression after her divorce, including the shift in mindset
(20:30) Confidence as a woman working in tax
(23:30) How Sehjal went from tax consultant to tax directly in three years – what’s her secret?
(26:30) Sehjal’s strengths which she’s taken advantage of in her career
(29:30) How Sehjal created a team culture where people don’t leave
(39:15) Difficulties in Sehjal’s career (overlooked for promotions, bullying, depression, etc)
(45:00) Promotions and “fitting in the box” for it
(48:15) Career advice Sehjal would give to her younger self, knowing what she knows now
(50:30) Sehjal’s number 1 tip if you want success in your tax career

Resources

Masterclasses for tax professionals:

Tax Research Masterclass – finding the answer to tax questions, using tax legislation and guidance
Tax Advice Masterclass – how to provide high-quality tax advice that clients value

0:00 1:06:09

TTPP116: Growing and Scaling a Tax Team: Advice, Stories and Tips with David Francis, Partner at Grant Thornton

March 30, 2025

Jack Bonehill

David Francis

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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, shares his experiences and advice for how to grow a tax team, so that you can do the same.

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP116

Masterclasses for tax professionals: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses

Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe

Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse

You’ll Learn

A bit about Dave and his tax career
(11:00) When Dave started getting involved in growing a tax team
(20:30) The GT tax dispute resolution team when Dave stated there and the business plan to grow
(25:15) Was team culture covered in the business plan?
(30:00) The culture Dave wants in his growing tax team
(35:15) The Service Line Agreement that Dave’s team had created – what is it?
(45:00) Wrapping thoughts up: David’s advice to scale a tax team
(48:30) The work-winning side of scaling a tax team. How to ensure you have enough
(54:00) Dave’s leadership philosophy
(1:00:00) Dave’s plan to grow the team further

Resources

Masterclasses designed for tax professionals to help you master vital career skills:

Tax Research Masterclass – teaching you how to find the answer to even the most complex tax queries, with the least pain possible.
Tax Advice Masterclass – teaching you how to provide high-quality tax advice that your clients appreciate and value.

Take a look and enrol, here. or email me at jackthetaxprofessionalspodcast.com

Book a call with ProTax to talk about your career: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/Bookprotax

Send us a text

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP116

Masterclasses for tax professionals: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses

Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe

Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse

You’ll Learn

A bit about Dave and his tax career
(11:00) When Dave started getting involved in growing a tax team
(20:30) The GT tax dispute resolution team when Dave stated there and the business plan to grow
(25:15) Was team culture covered in the business plan?
(30:00) The culture Dave wants in his growing tax team
(35:15) The Service Line Agreement that Dave’s team had created – what is it?
(45:00) Wrapping thoughts up: David’s advice to scale a tax team
(48:30) The work-winning side of scaling a tax team. How to ensure you have enough
(54:00) Dave’s leadership philosophy
(1:00:00) Dave’s plan to grow the team further

Resources

Masterclasses designed for tax professionals to help you master vital career skills:

Tax Research Masterclass – teaching you how to find the answer to even the most complex tax queries, with the least pain possible.
Tax Advice Masterclass – teaching you how to provide high-quality tax advice that your clients appreciate and value.

Take a look and enrol, here. or email me at jackthetaxprofessionalspodcast.com

Book a call with ProTax to talk about your career: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/Bookprotax

0:00 29:20

5 Skills to Master Early in Your Tax Career (TTPP49 Re-release)

March 17, 2025

Jack Bonehill

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Masterclasses for Tax Professionals: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP49

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Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse

You’ll Learn

5 skills that are important to master early on in your tax career
Some tips to help you improve these skills

Rough Timings

(2:30) Story (relevant!)
(6:30) Skill 1 - Tax Research (finding, using and applying tax guidance, legislation and case law
(10:15) Skill 2 - Explaining tax concepts clear to others
(13:45) Skill 3 - Tax Advisory Skills
(19:00) Skill 4 - Inspection and Fact Finding Skill
(23:30) Skill 5 - Relationship Building Skill

Related Episodes

Tax research:

TTPP 1: How to Undertake Effective Tax Research

TTPP 26: 8 Tax-Research Sins

TTPP37: Master Using Tax Legislation (and the Benefits this Brings)

TTPP42: Master Using HMRC Manuals for Tax Research

Tax Advice:

TTPP 10: How to Write Good-Quality and Practical Tax Advice

Explaining Tax rules Clearly:

TTPP18: How to Explain Tax Rules & Concepts Clearly (to Help Others Understand!)

0:00 42:46

TTPP115: How to be an Excellent Tax Junior, Graduate, Trainee or Apprentice with Olivia Pryer

March 03, 2025

Jack Bonehill

Olivia Pryer

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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 tax junior, loved by her boss, and she joins us to share her mindset, approach and tips, and help you or your colleges be an excellent tax junior and asset to the team.

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP115

Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe

Masterclasses for tax professional

Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse

You’ll Learn

A bit about Olivia and her tax career
(7:30) What Olivia expected from her first tax role (which was at ETC Tax) before she started
(10:00) How Olivia did a good of tax compliance work – completing tax returns – impressing her colleges
(19:30) Self-reading and self-learning she did with tax knowledge
(24:15) How Olivia did a good job of tax advisory work and how this is different to doing a good job of compliance work.
(29:00) How to get involved in tax advisory work early on in your career
(35:00) What should tax juniors/graduates/trainees do to be an excellent junior?
(39:00) Olivia’s final advice to those who want to be an excellent tax junior/graduate/trainee

Resources

Masterclasses designed for tax professionals to help you master vital career skills:

Tax Research Masterclass – teaching you how to find the answer to even the most complex tax queries, with the least pain possible.
Tax Advice Masterclass – teaching you how to provide high-quality tax advice that your clients appreciate and value.

Take a look and enrol, here.

Book a call with ProTax to talk about your career: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/Bookprotax

Contact details

[email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackbonehill94/

Send us a text

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP115

Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe

Masterclasses for tax professional

Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse

You’ll Learn

A bit about Olivia and her tax career
(7:30) What Olivia expected from her first tax role (which was at ETC Tax) before she started
(10:00) How Olivia did a good of tax compliance work – completing tax returns – impressing her colleges
(19:30) Self-reading and self-learning she did with tax knowledge
(24:15) How Olivia did a good job of tax advisory work and how this is different to doing a good job of compliance work.
(29:00) How to get involved in tax advisory work early on in your career
(35:00) What should tax juniors/graduates/trainees do to be an excellent junior?
(39:00) Olivia’s final advice to those who want to be an excellent tax junior/graduate/trainee

Resources

Masterclasses designed for tax professionals to help you master vital career skills:

Tax Research Masterclass – teaching you how to find the answer to even the most complex tax queries, with the least pain possible.
Tax Advice Masterclass – teaching you how to provide high-quality tax advice that your clients appreciate and value.

Take a look and enrol, here.

Book a call with ProTax to talk about your career: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/Bookprotax

Contact details

[email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackbonehill94/

0:00 1:06:40

TTPP114: Pass Your CTA Exams by Not Being One of These 10 Types of Students with Nitin Rabheru

February 17, 2025

Jack Bonehill

Nitin Rabheru

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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 (hopefully fun names) to each one.

In the episode, we talk through each bad type of student to help you identify any bad traits in yourself or you staff, and then we summarise our advice to increase the changes of you or your staff passing.

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP114

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You’ll Learn

(4:00) Bad Type of CTA Student #1: The Quirkmeister
(9:00) Bad Type of CTA Student #2: The Negative Nell
(14:30) The Bad Type of CTA Student #3: The Sloth, Lazebag or Deluded
(20:30) Bad Type of CTA Student #4: The One Trick Pony
(24:30) Bad Type of CTA Student #5: The Stickler
(28:30) Bad Type of CTA Student #6: The Mock Master or Drill Sergant
(39:00) Bad Type of CTA Student #7: Blame Thrower
(42:30) Bad Type of CTA Student #8: The Shortcut Seeker
(47:15) Bad Type of CTA Student #9: The Last Minuter
(55:15) Bad Type of CTA Student #10: The Legislation Love

Resources – Other CTA Podcasts:

All other exam-support related podcast episodes: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/category/podcast/att-cta/

Particularly recommend: TTPP96: Why She Failed One CTA Paper Multiple Times but Then Passed and Qualified with Amy Rylance

Free Downloads

FREE – CTA Study Phase Checklist so you can make sure you ‘complete’ the study phase before revision, going into revision as prepared as you can

FREE – ATT/CTA revision folder guide, which was made when the exams became open book. This is somewhat outdated now, but there is still useful information in there

FREE – 8 CTA/ATT revision tips summary, which does exactly what it says on the tin

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Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP114

Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe

Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse

You’ll Learn

(4:00) Bad Type of CTA Student #1: The Quirkmeister
(9:00) Bad Type of CTA Student #2: The Negative Nell
(14:30) The Bad Type of CTA Student #3: The Sloth, Lazebag or Deluded
(20:30) Bad Type of CTA Student #4: The One Trick Pony
(24:30) Bad Type of CTA Student #5: The Stickler
(28:30) Bad Type of CTA Student #6: The Mock Master or Drill Sergant
(39:00) Bad Type of CTA Student #7: Blame Thrower
(42:30) Bad Type of CTA Student #8: The Shortcut Seeker
(47:15) Bad Type of CTA Student #9: The Last Minuter
(55:15) Bad Type of CTA Student #10: The Legislation Love

Resources – Other CTA Podcasts:

All other exam-support related podcast episodes: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/category/podcast/att-cta/

Particularly recommend: TTPP96: Why She Failed One CTA Paper Multiple Times but Then Passed and Qualified with Amy Rylance

Free Downloads

FREE – CTA Study Phase Checklist so you can make sure you ‘complete’ the study phase before revision, going into revision as prepared as you can

FREE – ATT/CTA revision folder guide, which was made when the exams became open book. This is somewhat outdated now, but there is still useful information in there

FREE – 8 CTA/ATT revision tips summary, which does exactly what it says on the tin

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