Personal Tax Test

The Personal Tax Test is designed for candidates who are (or are training to be ) Chartered Tax Advisors or Chartered Accountants and are qualified members of their relevant professional body, such as CIOT, ICAEW, ICAS, ACCA or similar.  They would have specialist tax knowledge and be applying for positions such as Tax Senior or Tax Manager.  

This test assesses UK tax technical knowledge relating to personal and family tax issues for roles in Public Practice Chartered Accounting firms, or more specialist Tax Advisors.

The test is specific to the United Kingdom, with annually updated questions to reflect current taxation legislation.  The test is currently based on the 2020/21 tax year.

If you're interested in a test focused on business and corporation tax have a look at the General Tax Test.  Alternatively for a test covering more skills for advising clients, financial reporting as well as tax, the Chartered Accountant (Public Practice) Test or the Part / Non Qualified (Public Practice) Tests might be what you're looking for.

This test covers three areas of taxation knowledge:

• Rules and Regulations;
• Income tax rates, bands, allowances and reliefs;
• Trusts, Estates, CGT and IHT

Recruiting managers gain insight into a candidate's skills and knowledge in each of these four areas and identify performance in those most relevant to the vacant role, as well as a comparative overall score and performance against a norm group of other tax specialists at a similar level of experience and qualification. 

Example Candidate Report - Click Here

Example Personal Tax Test Questions - Click Here.

• Time to complete: 30 minutes
• Number of questions: 30
• Question Levels: Basic = 8, Intermediate = 14, Advanced = 8
• Questions per topic: Rules and Regulations = 9, Rates, bands, allowances and reliefs = 9, Trusts, Estates, CGT and IHT = 11

When your candidate has completed the test you can use this Interpretation Video to help understand more about their test report.