ACCA Technical Articles TX UK

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ACCA TX-UK (F6) technical articles — Finance Act 2025 edition, by tax, with exam tips

This is a complete, organised index of every official ACCA Taxation – United Kingdom (TX-UK / F6) technical article and tutor video — grouped by tax, linked to the current source pages, and annotated with an Eduyush insight on how each topic is examined. This hub covers the UK variant only.

TX-UK rewards accurate, well-laid-out computations under time pressure. Income tax and corporation tax are the two big Section C questions, VAT always appears, and motor cars have featured in every sitting to date — so the articles below are weighted accordingly.

⚠️ Use the right Finance Act. TX-UK is examined under a specific Finance Act, and the articles below are the Finance Act 2025 editions — relevant for sittings in June, September and December 2026, and March and June 2027. Tax rates, allowances and thresholds change every year, so revising from an older edition is one of the most common (and avoidable) ways to lose marks. Always confirm you're using the FA that matches your exam sitting.
100marks total
50%pass mark
40Section C marks
~50–55%recent pass rate
How TX-UK is examined: a 3-hour computer-based exam. Section A is 15 objective-test questions (30 marks); Section B is three OT case questions (30 marks); Section C is three constructed-response questions — one worth 10 marks and two worth 15 marks (40 marks). The two 15-mark questions are always income tax and corporation tax, so those two computations are the highest-value things to drill. Pass mark 50%. See how TX compares across all papers →

Read these firstFinance Act 2025 & exam approach

Finance Act 2025FA 2025 · PDF

Insight: Summarises the changes made by the UK Finance Act 2025 — the exact rates, allowances and thresholds you'll be examined on for June 2026 to June 2027. Read this first and make sure every figure you memorise comes from here, not an older year.

Higher skills

Insight: Exam questions increasingly span more than one syllabus area or more than one tax — the bridge towards ATX-UK. This article shows what those higher-skills requirements look like and how to approach them. Essential for the Section C 15-markers.

Syllabus area B · big Section C questionIncome tax & employment

One of the two guaranteed 15-mark Section C questions. Get the income tax computation pro forma automatic.

Adjustment of profitFoundation

Insight: How to turn accounting profit into taxable trading profit — add back disallowables, deduct allowable items and capital allowances. The backbone of both the income tax and corporation tax questions; learn the standard layout cold.

Benefits

Insight: Employment benefits feature regularly, and this article focuses on the ones actually examined. Know the company-car, fuel, accommodation and loan benefit rules — these are reliable, learnable marks.

Syllabus area CChargeable gains

Personal and corporate gains, the reliefs, and the share-matching rules.

Chargeable gains, part 1

Insight: The fundamentals of chargeable gains in either a personal or corporate context — computing the gain, the annual exempt amount and the rates. Start here before tackling reliefs.

Chargeable gains, part 2

Insight: Shares (the matching rules and the share pool), the main reliefs, and how companies are taxed on gains. The reliefs are where marks are won — know the conditions for each.

Syllabus area DInheritance tax

Scope, lifetime transfers and the death estate — a self-contained area you can master in full.

Inheritance tax, part 1

Insight: The scope of IHT, transfers of value, the rates and the exemptions. Get the exemptions order right (annual exemption, small gifts, marriage) — that's where careless marks are lost.

Inheritance tax, part 2

Insight: The harder lifetime-transfer rules, valuing the death estate, and the payment of IHT — with a worked exam-standard question and a self-test. Work the example to time rather than just reading it.

Syllabus area E · big Section C questionCorporation tax

The other guaranteed 15-mark Section C question. Groups are a perennial favourite.

GroupsHigh value

Insight: The group relationships that must exist for group relief and chargeable-gains group reliefs to apply — the thresholds matter (75% vs 51%). Work the examples; group questions reward knowing exactly which relief is available.

Syllabus area F · always examinedValue added tax (VAT)

TX-UK always carries a minimum of 10 marks on VAT — guaranteed marks if you've prepared.

Value added tax, part 1Guaranteed marks

Insight: Registration and deregistration, and output and input VAT. VAT is worth at least 10 marks every sitting, so this is some of the most reliable revision you can do.

Value added tax, part 2

Insight: VAT returns and invoices, penalties, overseas aspects and the special schemes (cash accounting, annual accounting, flat rate). Know which scheme suits which business — a common discussion element.

Spans several taxesCross-tax topics

Motor carsEvery sitting

Insight: Cars have appeared in every TX-UK exam set to date, because acquiring, running or having the use of a car touches income tax, corporation tax, VAT and NIC. Master the car benefit, capital allowances and VAT-recovery rules together — they're tested across several questions.

Learn TX-UK on video — BPP online course

Official BPP Enhanced Classroom (ECR) recorded lectures for TX-UK, with CBE practice and auto-marked tests. Authorised reseller pricing.

View BPP TX course →

Study from the books — BPP TX

Official BPP study text and exam kit for the Applied Skills papers, including TX-UK — and crucially the right Finance Act edition for your sitting.

Shop BPP TX books →

Watch, don't just readACCA topic-explainer video library

Short tutor-led videos from ACCA on the trickier TX-UK topics — ideal for a first pass or a quick revision refresh.

From EduyushTX-UK study companions

Quick answersTX-UK technical articles — FAQ

The articles linked here are the Finance Act 2025 editions, examinable for sittings in June, September and December 2026, and March and June 2027. TX-UK rates and allowances change with each Finance Act, so always match the edition to your exam sitting and don't revise from older-year material.
Read the Finance Act 2025 summary first to lock in the current rates, then adjustment of profit (it underpins both big computations), groups for corporation tax, and both VAT articles for the guaranteed VAT marks. Motor cars is worth prioritising too, as it appears in essentially every sitting.
TX-UK is a 3-hour computer-based exam. Section A is 15 objective-test questions (30 marks); Section B is three OT case questions (30 marks); Section C is three constructed-response questions — one worth 10 marks and two worth 15 marks (40 marks). The two 15-mark questions are always income tax and corporation tax. The pass mark is 50%.
TX-UK always contains a minimum of 10 marks on VAT. Because it's guaranteed, the two VAT articles are some of the most reliable revision you can do — registration, output and input VAT, returns, penalties and the special schemes.
This hub covers the UK variant (TX-UK) only. ACCA also offers TX in several national variants (for example Ireland, Malaysia and Poland), each with its own technical articles and tax rules — so make sure you're studying the variant you're entered for.

All in one placeACCA Applied Skills technical articles

Jump to another Applied Skills paper

Every Applied Skills technical-article hub, organised the same way — pick the paper you're studying next.

Ready to turn the tax rules into marks?

TX-UK rewards clean, fast computations on the right Finance Act. Study with official BPP TX lectures, or pair the current BPP books with these technical articles and drill the income tax and corporation tax pro formas to time.

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