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2025 Compliance: Tax and Ethics

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by John Taylor

Part of a series on 2025 Compliance. Ethics is a complicated, political and emotive subject. For the tax practitioner, there are a lot of issues at play. Balancing your duty to your client alongside your duty to society can be prove to be a tightrope-walk.

£100+vat
1 CPD hours
120 days' access

This course will enable you to

  • Recognise the duties of a tax advisor
  • Understand the PCRT ethical principles
  • Define professional judgement
  • About the course

      It's vital that every accountant in practice should be familiar with the principles set down in the various ethical codes of the accountancy bodies. The reputation of a firm may be impacted by our capacity to stay objective, moral, and honest in our work. However, when ethical grey areas do arise, finding the right course of action from these codes isn't always simple.

      For the tax practitioner, there are a lot of ethical issues at play. Balancing your duty to your client alongside your duty to society can be prove to be a tightrope-walk, especially when it comes to avoidance schemes.

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    John Taylor

    John is a Chartered Accountant who has spent many years advising small and medium-sized businesses across the North of England. John is the author of two industry standard textbooks: Millichamp - Auditing and Forensic Accounting. He has also written several auditing textbooks for AAT courses.

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