CTA qualification

Take the Chartered Tax Adviser exams and achieve the gold standard in tax.  Our training programme helps you prepare and decide the right route for your specialism.

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Dates and prices

Our course dates and prices will help you to plan ahead and organise your schedule.

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How you’ll qualify

To become a member of the CIOT, you must sit and pass four papers (two Advanced Technical papers, the Awareness paper and the Application and Professional Skills Paper), three online Computer Based Examinations and have three years of practical experience.

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The CTA qualification

You must register as a student with the Chartered Institute of Taxation at least four months before you can apply to sit the exams. So you must be registered by the end of December for the May examinations, and the end of June for the November examinations.

How the CTA qualification works

Exam Registration

Exam sittings take place twice a year.  Register with the Chartered Institute of Taxation by the end of February for the May examinations and by the end of August for the November examinations.

Important notice: Coronavirus

In light of the current situation, all courses for the November 2021 ATT and CTA exams will be run as Online Tuition Live (OTL) until at least 31st July 2021. We will continue to monitor the situation to determine whether it is safe to have a gradual return to face to face courses from August 2021 onwards.

All 2021 ADIT tuition and revision courses will now be run as Online Tuition Live (OTL).

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I know what papers I want to book


With our flexible study options, you can book your papers individually or together.  You can also assign different sittings that fit around you.

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Help me understand what papers to take


Our expert tutors are on hand with practical advice on what papers you should take, and in what order, to help you succeed.

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Study options


One of the reasons for our students’ excellent exam results is the wide range of study options that we offer, including a Guaranteed Pass Scheme, Online Tuition Live and Distance Learning options.

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Our CTA November 2020 pass rates

We are confident our pass rates will continue to significantly surpass the national average and our wide range of study options help to achieve this.


Tolley Exam Training*National Average
Awareness86%66%
Technical70%49%
Application48%48%

* Pass rates for those enrolled on the Guaranteed Pass Scheme


Meet Tolley’s CTA training tutors

Our training tutors are made up of the most respected tax industry experts in the country.

Jonathan Coletta
Jonathan joined the Exam Training team at Tolley in July 2015 and teaches on courses across all of the tax qualifications.
Karen Bullen
Karen is a senior tutor teaching on all Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) and Chartered Taxation Adviser (CTA) courses. She is also responsible for the VAT Compliance Diploma as lead tutor / writer / examiner.
Liz Halford
Liz is head of the Bristol Centre and provides an unrivalled level of service to local clients and students, and manages the teaching resource nationally. She also teaches on all of the ATT papers, and CTA papers for Tolley.
Juliet Smith
Juliet joined Tolley Exam training in 2017 as a senior tutor after over 10 years teaching at BPP on CTA and ATT courses as well as ICAEW, ACCA, ICAS and AAT.

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