F6 Ireland – Help with Self study

Hi Martin, the best thing to do in the Irish tax exam is to look for the easy marks and simply IGNORE any complicated bits. It’s probably the most time pressured of all the F’s because of the bloody income tax Q.
Order of Q’s: Do Capital Gains first, same topics come up year after year. Do the two smaller Q’s next followed by the Corporation Tax and leave the Income Tax til last.
You simply won’t have time to finish the income tax Q as it’s just ridiculous every year. Look for the easy marks, scan down through the Q and highlight each item of income, credits etc and pop them into a proforma. Don’t try and add up any final figures as it’s only a half mark and wastes time.
There are loads of easy marks available in each Q, and remember you’re only looking for just over half marks in each one, so if you can’t remember the tax treatment for an item just skip it.

And just keep practising past q’s (using an exam kit as the q’s are updated to the current syllabus)

Good luck in the exam! 🙂