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The Tax Professionals Podcast
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/
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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.
The Tax Professionals Podcast
TTPP125: How to Turn Tax Jargon into Plain English Advice that Clients Love
Your advice is probably full of unnecessary tax jargon without you even realising it. However, you can use simpler language without losing meaning — and your advice will be much better for it. In this episode, host Jack Bonehill identifies the overly complex wording in a real piece of tax advice and shows how the same points can be written in plain English that clients actually understand and will love you for.
The Tax Lab: free webinars to improve your tax skills. Real scenarios, tackled live.
The Tax Advice Masterclass: teaching you a repeatable method to write high-quality tax advice with confidence and less self-doubt.
Timings
00:14 – Intro: turning complex tax language into plain English that clients love.
01:11 – Client scenario: husband-and-wife partnership selling business units.
03:15 – Simplifying “income tax implications.”
06:13 – Simplifying “capital disposal” and removing jargon.
10:18 – Explaining rollover relief in plain English.
13:17 – Breaking down business asset disposal relief (BADR) simply.
15:45 – Using examples and numbers to make advice tangible.
Similar episodes:
TTPP124: Two Questions That Make Your Tax Advice Instantly Better in Your Clients’ Eyes
TTPP83: Improve Your Tax Advice Skills – Stories and Tips of 2 Tax Professionals