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There are a few places left on my free online seminar which will take place on the 3rd of January. I will be explaining the scope of the paper and show you how to approach both the written and computational aspects of the paper. I will also be sharing tips and...

The pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of anxiety across the globe which has been partly due to the mass hysteria perpetrated by the media. This week, I was talking to a friend from China and he said that his family in Shanghai thought that the new mutant virus...

With much of the UK moving into yet another lockdown, my household is still reeling from the disappointment of having our Christmas social plans cancelled. I love entertaining and look forward to meeting friends and family at this time of the year when most people...

Tax has extremely specific rules and after you have understood the basics, the next step is to understand the interaction of taxes. Examiners know this and as a result in almost all higher-level tax exams, you will find a question on the CGT and IHT implications of...

Many of you should be able to relate to this -you walk into the office having sorted out the children at home and survived the commute only for a colleague to comment, ‘You’re looking so tired today!’ Alternatively, you attend a family gathering and an Aunt says,...

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...

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...

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...

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...