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Cleared for take-off

03 September 2013 / Mike Thexton
Issue: 4418 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , Admin

Do tax practitioners always have the know-how for taking on clients – and for losing them?

KEY POINTS

  • The importance of an adviser knowing the limits of their professional knowledge.
  • Be prepared to provide accounts and tax return information to a newly appointed adviser.
  • Can accounts information always be reconciled?
  • Examples of tax oversights and problems.
  • Do not overlook apparently peripheral subjects such as VAT and National Insurance contributions.

I took my driving test on 4 July 1978. On that day I could probably have told you the stopping distance for a car travelling at 50mph.

I don’t think I’d know how to do the theory test today but I (and my insurance company) believe I’m safer behind the wheel than an 18-year old who’s just passed. I took my CTA exams when they were still called ATII and the same applies.

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