Corporate Tax Training, Built Around Your Firm

Corporate tax keeps getting more complex — and your team's training needs to reflect the work they actually do. We design bespoke corporate tax training for accountancy firms, law firms and in-house tax teams, from specialist technical workshops to rolling update programmes.

Please get in touch to discuss your team's needs.
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Trusted Corporate Tax Training

ExtraTax Training delivers bespoke UK and Irish corporate tax training to professional services firms and multinationals. Our tutors bring decades of hands-on experience from practice, industry and HMRC. Meaning your team benefits from training that goes beyond the legislation into how the rules apply in the real world.

The problem we solve

Corporate tax teams are expected to advise confidently across an ever-wider technical landscape. For example, capital allowances, interest deductibility, loss utilisation, anti-avoidance, and the arrival of Pillar Two.

Internal training rarely keeps pace: partners and directors don't have capacity to design and deliver it, and generic CPD courses don't reflect your client base or your team's experience levels.

We fill that gap with training designed for your firm, pitched to your people, and scheduled around your client commitments.

How we work with you

We don't arrive with a fixed syllabus. Every engagement starts with a conversation about your team and your business, and the programme is designed from there.

Understand

We start by listening:
  • the make-up of your team, their experience levels, the nature of your client work, and 
  • where you want the team to be in one, two or three years.

Design

We propose a programme built around those needs — the right topics, the right depth, the right format. We agree the outline content with you, share draft materials in advance, and refine them with your input before delivery.

Deliver

Training is delivered online, in person or hybrid, scheduled around your priorities. Sessions are interactive and exercise-led, in small groups, using scenarios your team will recognise from their own work.

Refine

We gather feedback from participants and leadership as we go, and adjust content, pace and emphasis so the programme keeps meeting your needs as they evolve.

What a bespoke programme can look like

Every programme is different. Three examples from recent client work show the range of formats — and how the same topic can be pitched differently for different audiences.

Example 1: A specialist technical programme, tiered by experience

A leading UK accounting firm asked us to build their team's capability on the Corporate Interest Restriction (CIR) — one of the most technically demanding areas of UK corporate tax. Rather than one generic course, we designed a tiered programme:
  • An introductory module for junior staff — an overview of the CIR, its key terms, and applying the rules to a simple group scenario, with participants working through a calculation live in the session.
  • A fundamentals module for experienced staff — working directly with the legislation to understand definitions and calculations, the group ratio, carried-forward balances, and administration including elections.
  • Supporting materials and assessment — pre-reading via our online learning platform, an online test to check understanding, and a group case study in which teams managed a budget, allocated work, produced a CIR calculation for a fictional client, and presented their work in a meeting with the "client".
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The same tiered approach works for any technical area: each audience gets the depth they need, and the firm gets consistent capability across levels.

Example 2: A rolling Lunch & Learn programme

For a rapidly expanding UK firm, we deliver a monthly one-hour Lunch & Learn series for the wider tax team. With the topics chosen by the firm to match their client work and development priorities. A recent year's schedule included:
  • Corporate tax considerations for PE-backed companies and groups
  • UK corporate losses
  • Fundamentals of transfer pricing
  • Loan relationships
  • Double tax treaties and double tax relief
  • Controlled foreign companies
  • Senior Accounting Officer and publication of tax strategy
  • Pillar Two and the UK's Multinational and Domestic Top-up Taxes
  • Corporate chargeable gains
  • Pre year-end tax planning
  • Capital allowances updates
  • Employment taxes overview
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The series doubles as the firm's rolling corporate tax update. The schedule is refreshed each year around legislative change — Finance Act measures, new regimes and recent case law — so the team stays current without anyone having to design an update programme internally. Sessions can be recorded and made available on our secure learning platform, so the training reaches the whole team, including those with client commitments on the day.

Example 3: A structured development programme

For a Top 10 firm growing its corporate and international tax practice, we designed a year-long modular programme for staff from assistant manager to associate director, combining corporate tax technical modules with group case studies. Modules pair concepts with legislative exercises and practical elements, meaning participants build the research and advisory skills alongside the technical knowledge.

These are examples, not a menu. Your programme might be a single workshop on one technical area, a rolling update series, a structured graduate development programme, or a multi-year pathway — or a combination. The starting point is always your needs, not our template.

Topics we cover

Our core team, supported by specialist associate trainers, can design and deliver training on a wide range of international tax topics, including:
  • Corporation tax computations and returns
  • Capital allowances
  • Loss relief, including group and consortium relief
  • Loan relationships / interest deductibility
  • Corporate Interest Restriction / Interest Limitation Rules
  • Close companies and loans to participators
  • Controlled foreign companies
  • Hybrid mismatch rules
  • R&D tax reliefs
  • Tax accounting and deferred tax
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We also deliver corporation tax fundamentals and refresher training — for new joiners, returners to the profession, and teams in general practice who want to strengthen their grounding before moving on to more specialist topics. For specialist topics, such as reorganisations and demergers, we work with trusted associate trainers who follow our practical approach.

Where your needs extend into international tax or transfer pricing, we offer tailored training covering those areas too. For Irish tax content, we work with leading Irish specialists, including former senior Revenue officials.

Your tutors

With over 75 years of combined experience in UK and international tax, the ExtraTax Training team knows how to communicate complex tax topics using everyday language. They bring rules to life with real world examples from across practice, industry and tax authorities.

Catriona Loughran

Founder and Managing Director

Linda Mercel

Director of Tax Training and Learning

Alyson Sutcliffe

Tax Training Manager

Why choose ExtraTax Training

Designed around you

We take the time to understand where your team is now and where you want them to be — then build the programme to close that gap.

A true partnership

We work around your business calendar, not ours. Content is agreed with you, draft materials are shared in advance, and programmes evolve with your feedback.

Real-world experience

Our tutors have walked in your team's shoes — in practice, in industry and at tax authorities — and the training reflects how the rules apply on real engagements.

Immediate business impact

Stronger technical independence, reduced senior review time, fewer errors and rework. Within weeks, your team is applying new knowledge to client situations with confidence.
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Others deliver courses. We develop careers.

Frequently asked questions

Is this a fixed course or is it tailored to our firm?

Every programme is tailored. We agree the topics, depth, format and schedule with you, share draft materials in advance, and refine the content based on your feedback. The examples on this page show what other firms have commissioned, not a fixed menu.

Can the same topic be pitched at different experience levels?

Yes — that's often the right design. For one firm we delivered the Corporate Interest Restriction as an introductory module for junior staff and a separate legislation-based fundamentals module for experienced staff, so each group got the depth they needed.

What formats do you offer?

Everything from one-hour Lunch & Learn sessions through half-day workshops to year-long modular programmes with case studies and assessments. Training can be online, in person or hybrid, and sessions can be recorded for your team to access on our secure learning platform.

Can you provide regular tax update training?

Yes. For example, our Lunch & Learn format can be used as a rolling corporate tax update programme, with the schedule refreshed each year around Finance Act changes, new regimes and recent case law. Your whole team stays current without the firm designing an update programme internally.

Do you offer corporation tax fundamentals training?

Yes. We deliver fundamentals and refresher training on core corporation tax topics. These are well suited to new joiners, staff returning to the profession, and general practice teams building a stronger technical grounding. It often works well as the first stage of a longer development programme.

For example, we delivered two half-day sessions for a mixed tax team on UK Corporation Tax covering:
  • Calculating Taxable Total Profits
  • Corporation Tax Rates, including Marginal Relief
  • Corporate Loss Relief
  • Instalment Payments
  • Associated Companies
  • Capital Allowances
  • Tax Incentives
  • Interest Deductibility
  • Cross-Border Tax Issues
  • Transfer Pricing

Do you cover Irish corporate tax as well as UK?

Yes. We deliver Irish corporation tax training, working with leading Irish tax specialists alongside our core team. Topics range from fundamentals through to complex issues, such as the Interest Limitation Rule, dividend participation exemption and hybrid mismatch rules.

For example, we recently supported students from a Top 10 firm and the Revenue Commissioners studying for Part 3 of the Irish CTA qualification.

Do you cover tax accounting?

Yes. We deliver training on tax accounting topics, including deferred tax, tax provisioning and disclosures in financial statements, pitched for tax teams, audit teams or finance teams as needed.

How interactive are the sessions?

Very. Participant numbers are capped, sessions are built around exercises and discussions, and larger programmes include group case studies where teams produce deliverables and present to a "client". We find this is what turns knowledge into capability.

How do we get started?

Contact us to arrange a call. We'll listen to what you're trying to build, ask about your team, and come back with a proposed programme designed around your needs.

Please get in touch with any questions on bespoke UK or Irish corporate tax training for your team.

A member of our team will respond to your query as soon as possible.
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