About ATT

The ATT syllabus is a series of seven free-standing Certificates of Competency, enabling students to gain knowledge in a specialist area of tax without necessarily having to study for the full qualification. Each Certificate of Competency is valid for 3 years and can be renewed upon evidence of CPD.

Eligibility

You can study for the ATT qualification after success at GCSE level or equivalent. For further details please contact the Association directly.

Registration

You must be registered with the Association for at least six months before sitting your first examination. The association do not accept late applications and that registration with them is entirely separate from your enrolment with us.

Modules and structure

Kaplan Financial offer all three core certificates in all of our Tax centres together with the non-core option of Business Tax Higher Skills. Other non-core options are run in various locations for certain examination sittings.

In order to achieve the ATT qualification, students must pass four of the certificates – in the three core subjects and in one non-core subject of choice:

• Core certificate 1 - Personal taxation
• Core certificate 2 - Business and accounting principles
• Non-core certificate 3
  Options
• Business taxation higher skills
• Inheritance tax, trusts and estates
• VAT
• Business compliance
• Core certificate 4 - Practice administration and ethics

Read a more in-depth review of the Certificate papers syllabus.

Exemptions

An AAT full member who has passed the AAT Unit 18 Preparing Business Taxation Computations will be awarded, on application and payment of the fee, a credit for  Business Taxation and Accounting Principles.

The credit will be valid for three years from the first sitting of another ATT certificate paper.  There are no other credits offered for ATT students.