The Tax Professionals Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Podcast details

Technical and general information from the podcast's RSS feed.

The Tax Professionals Podcast

Jack Bonehill

Business

Education

Frequency: 1 episode/15d. Total Eps: 139

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.

Recent rankings

Latest chart positions across Apple Podcasts and Spotify rankings.

Apple Podcasts

🇬🇧 Great Britain - careers
21/08/2026
#45
🇬🇧 Great Britain - careers
19/08/2026
#71
🇬🇧 Great Britain - careers
18/08/2026
#35
🇬🇧 Great Britain - careers
16/08/2026
#62
🇬🇧 Great Britain - careers
21/07/2026
#50
🇬🇧 Great Britain - careers
18/07/2026
#84
🇬🇧 Great Britain - careers
17/07/2026
#44
🇬🇧 Great Britain - careers
16/07/2026
#20
🇬🇧 Great Britain - careers
15/07/2026
#54
🇬🇧 Great Britain - careers
12/07/2026
#48

Spotify

No recent rankings available

Shared links between episodes and podcasts

Links found in episode descriptions and other podcasts that share them.

See all

https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse
203 shares
https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses/
85 shares
https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/revisionfolderguide
18 shares

RSS feed quality and score

Technical evaluation of the podcast's RSS feed quality and structure.

See all

RSS feed quality

To improve

Score global : 53%

Publication history

Monthly episode publishing history over the past years.

Year

Latest published episodes

Recent episodes with titles, durations, and descriptions.

See all

TTPP105: How to Be The External Tax Advisor In-House Tax Teams Want with Stephen Hodgson

Sunday, September 1, 2024 • Duration 57:19

Send us a text

In this episode, learn what in-house tax teams value and want from external tax advisors, so you can be their advisor of choice, with our guest Stephen Hodgson, in-house Head of Indirect Tax at Entain. There’s some excellent advice from Stephen too re how to break bad news to a client in a good way and re what practical tax advice actually is.

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP105

Tax Advice Masterclass (next one Nov 24): https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses/

Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe

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

You’ll Learn

The indirect tax team that Stephen runs
(9:00) The type of external advice that Stephen’s team in particular take
(13:00) What do in-house tax teams want from external advisors
(15:15) What level of responsiveness/communication is needed to keep in-house tax team happy
(20:00) Whether, even as a large corporate, they would only consider Big 4 advisors?
(23:00) The impact of cost when it comes to choosing and working with external tax advisors
(25:30) The factor of industry knowledge and direct knowledge of the business
(28:30) What Stephen means by practical advice (which is valued very much)
(34:15) What a bad external advisor looks like? Bad traits/attributes
(36:15) How to deal with giving advice the client won’t want to hear in a way that they value
(40:30) Who interacts with external advisors – is it only the heads of tax?
(43:00) How to build a relationship with an in-house tax team from scratch to have the opportunity to support them
(51:00) What Stephen would do differently when working with in-house tax teams, if he were to go back to practice
(54:30) How an external tax advisor can be the advisor that an in-house tax team wants to work with and value?

Resources

Previous episode with Stephen: TTPP53: Moving from Practice to In-House (Industry) with Stephen Hodgson, In-House Head of Indirect Tax

Read moreCollapse

I'm Taking a Break and Future of the Podcast - Update from Me

Thursday, July 4, 2024 • Duration 18:13

Send us a text

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPPBREAK

Masterclasses for Tax Professionals (Tax Research and Tax Advice): https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses/

Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe

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

Timings

Break and why
(5:00) When will new podcast episodes be released? Future of the podcast
(6:30) Planned episodes/pipeline upon the return from the break
(12:00) Recommended episodes to listen to in the meantime

Me – Jack Bonehill

Email: jack@thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com

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

Recommended eps to listen to in the meantime

TTPP98: How and Why I Moved Tax Role After Being Loyal for 7 Years (Interviewed by Sam Hart)

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

TTPP88: Her Spectacular Route to Tax Partner at 29 with Ele Theochari [Tax Career Success Secrets Ep 12]TTPP76: Why and How to Take Control of Your Tax Career with Charlie Friend

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

Monday, March 11, 2024 • Duration 48:05

Send us a text

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP96

Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe

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

You’ll Learn

A bit about Amy and her tax career
(5:45) Overview of Amy’s ATT and CTA journey, including what happened when she sat her first CTA paper
(12:00) Amy’s key advice for passing the CTA Application and Professional Skills (APS) paper
(16:30) With hindsight, how would Amy have prepared differently for the CTA Human Capital Advanced Technical Paper (HC AT)
(19:15) How Amy kept motivated and determined to pass after her knockbacks and why she almost gave up
(25:00) The evolution of her mindset – to get the right one to pass
(28:00) What Amy did differently, the time that she passed – how she passed and studied learnt the whole syllabus with a deep understanding of the topics

Resources

Tax flashcards/squares – email Jack (jack@thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com) or Nitin (cta@bpp.com) for samples.

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

TTPP12: Road to Tax Manager – Accelerate Your Progression with 10 Tips Learnt From My Journey

Monday, November 9, 2020 • Duration 34:19

Send us a text

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP12
Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe

You’ll Learn

· 10 tips to help you progress and improve your tax career

· About misconceptions that I had about a successful tax career, so that you can throw them out the window and focus on what’s important to progress

· The benefits and value of having a tax specialism

· How to create your own career USP

· Key skills that you should start learning as soon as possible to set you up well for your future career in tax

Related Episodes

· TTPP 3: How to Obtain Good Quality Feedback (and Why You Should Ask for More!)

· TTPP 4: How to be a Better Delegator to Progress your Career with Mike Clayton

Calls to Action

· Decide on or understand what your USP is

Intro

A long 5 years ago (yes long!), I started my tax career as a Trainee Tax Consultant.

As a naïve and slightly over-confident 21-year-old, I thought I knew exactly what I needed for a successful tax-career and that it would be plain sailing.

I can now confidently say that I had no idea. Who would’ve known!

Over the past 5 years, I’ve become CTA qualified and most recently, promoted to Tax Manager. Both of which I am proud of.

TTPP11: How to Increase Your Chances of Winning/Converting Tax Work with Martyn Sloman (Without Being Pushy!!)

Monday, October 26, 2020 • Duration 01:03:02

Send us a text

You’ll Learn

How to improve your chances of converting opportunities into client work without being pushy
The common mistakes that people make when it comes to selling so you can avoid them
What the preparation stage before a meeting to discuss opportunities with a client or prospective client should consist of
What you should do during and at the end of these meetings to increase your chances of converting the opportunity into paid work
How best to follow up an opportunity with a client after you’ve quoted, without being pushy
How to politely ask a client if they are still interested in a potential service, and how you can use Martyn’s ‘ultimatum’ email as a last resort

Introduction

If you work in a role where you provide tax services and advice, at some point you will be faced with the requirement to win client work.

Or, if I were to use the dreaded word, ‘selling’ services to clients.

As tax professionals, this is not something we are taught how to do. It’s one of those things we are expected to ‘pick up’ on the job.

But it is absolutely paramount that you are able to win client work if you want to make it to Senior Manager or above, generally speaking. In some firms, you may even need to do this at more junior roles.

So, if you want to progress your career to these levels, you will need to develop and work on the skill of winning client work.

That’s why I thought it would be great to invite this episode’s guest, Martyn Sloman, onto the podcast.

Martyn is known as the “non-pushy” sales trainer – which instantly caught my attention, as I’ve been worried about coming across as pushy in the past, and maybe you have too.

All of Martyn’s advice is provided to help you be “non-pushy” too, but be “professionally persistent”.

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

Episode 10

Sunday, October 11, 2020 • Duration 31:33

Send us a text

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP10
Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe

You’ll Learn

The approach I recommend you take to write good quality tax advice
What you should do before and after writing the advice
How to become quicker at writing advice
Some final tips to help you become better at writing tax advice

Related Episodes

Resources

Eats, Shoots and Leave book by Lynne Truss (a book to help you master correct punctuation, if you prefer books – I know I do!)

Just to note, if you purchase through this link, you will support the podcast as Amazon will make a small referral payment to me at no additional cost to you.
Free apostrophe guides:

o https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/apostrophe.html

o For Acronyms in particular: here

TTPP 9: Impact of COVID-19 on Tax Job Market and Tips to Secure a New Job with Georgiana Head

Sunday, September 27, 2020 • Duration 50:16

Send us a text

You’ll Learn

About the impact that COVID-19 has had on the tax-job market
Trends in terms of how coronavirus has affected the recruitment process of tax jobs and remote working
Georgiana’s tips on how to approach your job search
Georgiana’s CV and interview preparation tips for tax professionals
What you could do if you’ve been made redundant to increase your chances of getting a job quickly

Introduction

Coronavirus has taken its toll across the UK economy, and it is no secret that it has taken an impact on available jobs, including jobs within the tax profession.

Some working in tax have been furloughed for prolonged periods, and some will be at risk of, or have already been faced with, redundancy.

It is inevitably a difficult time, and I wanted to help in some way through the podcast, to help those of you who are in an unfortunate position and need to look for a new job in an unprecedented market.

So, Georgiana Head, an experienced and well-known tax recruiter, joined me on the podcast to explain from her experience what the current tax-job market looks like, how it is changing, and to provide you with tips to improve your chances of successfully landing your next job.

Georgiana first trained in tax, becoming ATT qualified and working for PwC, before moving to recruitment. She works closely with candidates to help them understand suitable and available jobs, even if this is for a role which she is not recruiting for, and helps them to increase their chances of being offered a tax job by improving CVs and helping them to properly prepare for interviews.

Take a listen to find out what Georgiana has to say!

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP9
Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe

TTPP 8: Essential Excel Tips for Tax Professionals

Episode 8

Sunday, September 13, 2020 • Duration 33:54

Send us a text

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/ttpp8

You’ll Learn

Essential Excel shortcuts and time-savers to enable you to become quicker at using Excel
Highly used, must-know and beneficial formulas, which will enable you to do 90% (or at least most) of the tasks you’ll ever need or want to do in Excel
Tips to help you review formulas to correct mistakes and errors
Some pointers for good practice when creating an Excel sheets so they are more useable, easily understandable, and less likely to be broken by others
What you can do if you’re stuck

Introduction
Before I started working in tax, being able to use Excel hadn’t even crossed my mind.

All I thought would be important was learning tax rules and being able to advise accordingly.

But, as you probably know, there’s much more to being a tax professional.

You may not see it as essential but being able to use Excel well will save you SO MUCH time and hassle in the long term. And there will probably be times where you have no choice but to use it!

I got thrown in the deep end within weeks of my first tax job, with what was a large and difficult Excel task, with another one to follow shortly after. I had no prior knowledge or experience in Excel at this point (apart from the basics of adding and subtracting!), which made this all the more tricky.

At the time I didn’t realise what a great opportunity this was. I just wanted to get stuck into learning tax.

But looking back, it really was an excellent experience for me in building my Excel skills. I was enrolled on a thorough online Excel course and then immediately after able to apply what I’d learn in a practical, real scenario.

Since, I’ve built many spreadsheets since which I’ve been proud of. Yes – it is possible to be proud of a spreadsheet!

TTPP 7: How to Have Effective Meetings as a Tax Professional with Loren Lazarony

Episode 7

Sunday, August 30, 2020 • Duration 53:53

Send us a text

Ever come out of a meeting, thinking that it was a complete waste of time? Like it was not necessary for you to attend the meeting?

That your time could be better spent elsewhere?

You’re not alone.

This is a common problem for those who work in professional services (and not just restricted to us who work in tax!). Learning how to run an effective meeting is one of those things we are not taught.

We end up learning from observing, and there’s a good chance the people we observe haven’t been taught how to run an effective meeting either.

Can you see the problem?

The thing is, running an effective meeting is not rocket science, as this episode’s guest, Loren Lazarony put it, as long as you know HOW.

Once you know how and have a little practice, it is easily doable!

Loren is the owner of Laz International Training, and has been providing business skills and project management training to global professionals for over 8 years. He has particular expertise in relation to running effective meetings, which he has distilled down into an online course.

Meetings are an integral part of being a tax professional. For me, being able to run effective meetings is especially important in relation to client ones, but regardless of whether you work for an advisory firm, within an in-house tax team, or otherwise, being able to run effective meetings will benefit your career.

In the episode, Loren provides lots of great straightforward, practical tips that you can implement to enable you to run more effective meetings.

Take a listen to this episode, and let’s put an end to bad meetings!

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP7Subscribe:

TTPP 6: How to Build and Maintain Strong Tax Knowledge to Excel as a Tax Professional

Episode 6

Sunday, August 16, 2020 • Duration 18:13

Send us a text

In this episode, I share the strategies and methods that I, myself, have and still use to build and maintain my tax knowledge, to help you do the same.

Regardless of what area of tax you work in, it is undeniably important that you have strong knowledge for the area of tax you work in.

When it comes to building your tax knowledge, the end goal should not be to know the answer to every tax question that you could ever be asked without checking (that would be impossible given the amount of tax legislation!), but having a good foundation will mean you have a good gut feeling of what the answer will be and will allow you to spot potential risks before things turn ugly. Tax research can then be undertaken as necessary to ratify the position, and the appropriate consideration given to any risks.

Building your tax knowledge may seem like an overwhelming task – given the vast volume of information – but like with anything, if you approach it in the right way, you’ll be able to build it quicker than you think.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re new to working in tax, have decided to swap specialism, or are more experienced and are looking for ways to bolster and maintain your knowledge – I think you’ll take away some useful points and ideas from this episode.

Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/ttpp6
Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe

The Tax Professionals Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Podcast details

Recent rankings

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

Shared links between episodes and podcasts

RSS feed quality and score

Publication history

Latest published episodes

Related Shows Based on Content Similarities

Related Shows Based on Content Similarities

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

The Tax Professionals Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Podcast details

Recent rankings

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

Shared links between episodes and podcasts

Other99+

Buzzsprout3

Amazon22

RSS feed quality and score

Publication history

Latest published episodes

Similar podcasts and content

Related Shows Based on Content Similarities

Related Shows Based on Content Similarities

Other99+

Buzzsprout3

Amazon22

Apple Podcasts

Spotify