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06 December 2006 / Richard Curtis
Issue: 4087 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
On me 'ead! RICHARD CURTIS looks at the CIOT's latest initiative to encourage an understanding of tax from an early age.

HERE'S A QUESTION. OK what's the best paid job after a premier league footballer? Oh alright then after a comment from some wag (and I don't mean one of their 'wives and girlfriends') what's the best paid job after a premier league footballer or a premier league footballer's agent? Obviously a premier league footballer's tax consultant. Working on the basis that most kids (I think that the correct term is 'young people' Ed.) are interested in some facet of football and footballers whether it is their on-field skill or off-field antics the Chartered Institute of Taxation will be including some football-related questions on its TaxTalking website. This site (www.taxtalking.org.uk) — 'the resource for tax learning' — will have several updated tax-related activities that can be used by schoolteachers to help in the development of their students' numeracy skills.
The site will...

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