Employment Tax: When to Hire a Specialist In-House
Employment tax is one of the fastest-growing in-house tax specialisms and one of the most consistently under-resourced. It sits awkwardly between finance, payroll, HR and legal, which means it often belongs to nobody until something goes wrong: a status challenge, a benefits error found across …
In-Demand Tax Roles: Skills, Qualifications and Pay
In-house tax is one of the smallest and best-paid corners of UK finance, and one of the least understood from outside it. Most accountants encounter tax as compliance — the corporation tax return, the VAT filing — and are surprised to find a discipline with …
Navigating the Fine Line: Tax Compliance vs. Tax Planning Explained
Tax compliance and tax planning are routinely spoken of together, yet they are genuinely different activities requiring different skills and, increasingly, different people. Compliance is about meeting obligations accurately and on time. Planning is about arranging affairs efficiently within the law, before the obligations crystallise. …
How to Build a Scalable Tax Team for a Growing Business: Strategies for Success
How to Build a Scalable Tax Team for a Growing Business: Strategies for Success Most growing UK businesses start with tax handled by an external adviser and a Financial Controller who signs off the corporation tax computation once a year. That works until it doesn’t: …
Climbing the Ladder: Mastering the Transition from Tax Senior to Tax Manager
Climbing the Ladder: Mastering the Transition from Tax Senior to Tax Manager The step from Tax Senior to Tax Manager is the point where a tax career stops being judged mainly on the quality of your own work and starts being judged on the work …
Private Client vs. Corporate Tax: Key Hiring Differences Explained
Introduction Private client tax and corporate tax both sit under the “tax” heading on a recruitment brief, but they are distinct disciplines with different clients, different legislation, different qualifications and, increasingly, different candidate pools. An employer who briefs a “Tax Manager” search without being clear …
