Company tax computations - a practical guide (July 2025)
AAT Masterclass: Understand company tax computations and strategies to tackle problematic areas and maximise tax claims
Course Type
Video on demand
Length
3 - 5 hours
What you’ll achieve
- Review a company’s tax computations in detail
- Identify and highlight contentious areas in tax computations
- Gain practical tax advice, solutions, and planning strategies.
About this course
Correctly completing and submitting a company’s tax computations and CT return is an onerous task!
There are lots of areas within a company’s tax computations that will cause issues that are contentious and need detailed consideration. Additionally, there are various tax claims that need to be made.
This masterclass is aimed at finance professionals working in practice as well as those in industry.
Meet the Speaker(s)

Tim Palmer
Tim Palmer
Tim Palmer is one of the UK’s best known and popular tax presenters. He lectures frequently all over the UK, three or four times a week on a wide variety of taxation topics. He has been presenting tax lectures for over 30 years now! He also writes regular magazine articles for the leading taxation publications.
Alongside his lecturing, Tim also provides tax consultancy services, and specialist tax advice. Previously Tim Palmer was a senior Tax Manager with Howarth Clark Whitehill LLP, advising on all areas of tax and NIC for the firm to their clients. He was also a member of the tax department of P&O where he specialised in Corporation Tax and the Construction Industry.
Read moreOverview
Video on demand |
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3 - 5 hours |
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Business Tax |
Syllabus
During this masterclass Tim will cover:
- calculating the company’s adjusted taxable trading profit
- what expenditure is allowable and what is not?
- Capital v Revenue
- company losses
- capital allowances
- capital gains
- group relief
- corporate anti-avoidance legislation, which disallows both certain expenditure, and losses
- company rental income
- loan relationships
- the impact of recent tax cases
- practical case studies and examples.
How to access
Once purchased you'll be able to access the AAT Learning Portal where you'll have 12 months from the date to access the learning materials. AAT Learning Portal allows you to view all the courses you've purchased in one place, monitor your latest training activity and create goals to help you achieve your training aims.