The Tax Professionals Podcast

Author: Jack Bonehill

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.
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TTPP129: How to Improve Your Confidence in Your Tax Research and Technical Positions
Sunday, 1 February, 2026

Send us a textMany 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 6 practical tips to help you improve your confidence.LinksTax Research Masterclass (built the confidence of many tax professionals)Episode show notesTimingsAmy's tax research transformation story - from no confidence to being very good[00:03:16] Why tax professionals/advisors lack confidence with tax research and technical[00:05:40] Tip 1: Start Proving to Yourself That You Can Do It with Simpler Scenarios[00:07:35] Tip 2: Learn how to do each element of research well (helped by training)[00:09:55] Tip 3: Get Involved in As Much Tax Research As Possible[00:11:29] Tip 4: Ask for help if you get stuck[00:12:30] Tip 5: Document Your Research and Reasoning for Conclusions[00:13:43] Tip 6: Accept tax research is complicated, difficult and slow [00:15:13] Two key principles underlying the tips[00:17:00] Amber Kirton-Vaughan's learnings and improvements from the Tax Research Masterclass