Become a Fellow Tax Adviser FTA

Membership at the grade of Fellow Tax Adviser means you can use the designatory letters FTA after your name and refer to yourself as a Tax Adviser.

FTA is the Institute’s highest tax adviser grade of membership available. You will have been working in a senior role in the tax profession for no fewer than 10 years, the last five at a senior level in taxation. 

You can only become a Fellow Tax Adviser of the Institute by: 

  • having been a member for seven consecutive years at ATA level;  
  • continued to meet the Institute's CPD requirements; and  
  • being able to demonstrate relevant work experience, or equivalent from another recognised professional accountancy body. 

Benefits

Among the many benefits you can expect are:

  • Refer to yourself as a Fellow Tax Adviser 
  • Use the designatory letters FTA after your name
  • IFA membership certificate
  • Free IFA UK and international webinars and regional networking meetings to learn and network with other accountants and potential employers 
  • A range of relevant CPD workshops and webinars
  • Access to a hard copy of Financial Accountant, our member magazine, six times a year
  • A free weekly e-newsletter drawing together the latest news, articles and opinion on accounting, finance and business from Financial Accountant digital our online content platform
  • A free quarterly highlights e-mail
  • Exclusive offers from our carefully chosen strategic partners  
  • Technical resources covering business and AML
  • Early bird discounts on annual conference tickets

Practising certificate

Members at FTA grade based in the UK offering services to the public for reward will be required to apply for a practising certificate, achieve a UK tax qualification equivalent to the tax units detailed in the IFA Direct education programme and are expected to gain the appropriate technical theory.