What Tax Training Courses Are Available In the UK?

Say what you want about taxes.  Obviously most people don’t like them.  But the fact is that most people choose discretion over valor and go ahead and pay them.  If there is a positive side to it, it does create a lot of opportunity for those who want to learn how to do it.  But what kind of tax training courses are available in the UK?

First of all, let’s look at how much information seems to be available:

Here’s some count numbers for certain search terms on Google:

“Tax training UK”                                      10 results

“Tax training courses UK”                         1 result

UK tax preparation training                    6,000,000+ results

How to prepare UK income taxes          12,000,000+ results

“How to prepare UK income taxes”      10 results

Let’s change the search term a little, OK?  How about ‘tax preparation jobs in UK’?

Tax preparation jobs in UK                      3,000,000+ (much better, eh?)

“tax preparation jobs in UK                     Only 1!! (go figure, eh?)

 

(NB:  Exact Match queries indicated in quotes.  Broad Match queries shown without quotes.)

 

So, we can readily see that it’s not a heavily advertised term on Google.  Or at least it appears that way.  Upon closer inspection however we do see that training does exist.

The Broad Match search for ‘tax preparation training in UK’ comes up with 210,000,000 results and in looking through them find various online and offline courses for tax preparation at both the personal and business level.

For personal taxes you find such titles as:

• Personal and Employment Tax Update
• Personal Tax Update
• Property Taxation
• Residential and Domicile Tax Aspects
• Tax Planning for High Income and High Net-Worth Individuals

The listings for business and corporate tax subjects are much more extensive, including such diverse titles as:

• Business Tax Update Webinar
• Capital allowances—UK Regine and Planning Issues
• Construction Industry Tax Explained
• Double Taxation Treaties
• HM Revenue Investigations
• International Tax Planning
• And many more

Several companies have tax preparation training centers, strategically located across the country, that offer classes in a variety of taxation issues and specialties.

So….it appears that tax preparation training is available.  As one might expect, many companies are willing to offer on-the-job training although you can’t expect to get paid a lot.  The real payment comes in the form of the training and experience.  By astute career management and showing your willingness and eagerness to learn one could undoubtedly move ‘up the ladder’ in proficiency, responsibility and compensation.

One thing is for sure….taxes will always be around, people don’t want to do them, so there will always be work in that particular field.