by Neil Da Costa | Dec 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
When approaching a challenging task, I recommend you follow Stephen Covey’s advice in his landmark bestseller, ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’. Stephen recommends that you should always start with the end in mind. Applying this to a challenging subject like...
by Neil Da Costa | Dec 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Life is full of disappointments and we need to learn resilience to cope with it. Very rarely, do things in life actually live up to our expectations. When one of my sons was 5, we all used to dread taking him to a restaurant. If he did not receive his order in 5 to 10...
by Neil Da Costa | Dec 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
When reading exam questions, it is important to allow yourself to think so you can understand where the question is going. If you are able to see the ‘destination’ the examiner is heading to, it becomes easier to anticipate the tax implications. Income Tax One popular...
by Neil Da Costa | Nov 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Setting Work /Life Boundaries With so many of us working from home , it is not unusual to answer an email at 11pm at night ! Recently , I found many students doing some work on a Saturday afternoon which left them too tired to study for their Advanced Tax exam -here...
by Neil Da Costa | Nov 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Advanced Tax exam is now 10 days away and all my students are deep in revision. An excellent technique is to pick key questions on each tax and work through them under timed conditions. Examples of questions to pick are questions like Brad, Ray and Shanira or...
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