As a qualified accountant or lawyer you may decide to take the ATT examination although you are eligible to proceed straight to registration as a student qualification. Both the ATT and the CIOT are keen to assist members in the provision of reasonable terms for students who they employ. Most of his work is for corporate clients who need taxation advice about their commercial transactions. My job is to identify the tax consequences of alternative courses of action open to the client. Des O'Connell says it is extremely rare for his firm to go as far as litigation over tax disputes.
Litigation is costly.
Alison Carey works for PricewaterhouseCoopers and specialises via its VAT Specialist Route, in 1994. Since VAT is a transaction tax the client is normally responsible for day to day compliance and filing of returns. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of her VAT advisory work is in the field of VAT planning. There are possibilities for working overseas, but for those who want to stay home, it can equally provide a flexible working environment, for example, for women wishing to combine work with a family. Ian Menzies-Conacher is the Taxation Director for the Barclays Bank Group.