A graduate career in Tax

The Domestic and International Outbound (DIO) team is the largest corporate tax group in PwC Ireland’s Tax practice. It provides a broad range of services to a diverse client base including Irish plcs, multinational companies, family businesses, trusts, large privately-owned organisations, partnerships and high net worth individuals. We help our clients optimise their tax strategy and understand the impact of tax policy and legislative changes on their business. Working in DIO, every day is different and we offer an exciting opportunity to become immersed in a range of tax areas, experience diverse issues and build relationships with many client types. Our people also have opportunities to travel to meet with key stakeholders, connect with PwC colleagues and participate in PwC European training events.

Our Financial Services Tax practice works with clients in aviation finance, treasury operations, insurance, real estate, funds and more. We help clients manage the tax consequences of their strategic, commercial and day-to-day activities. The practice is split into five subgroups:

Asset Wealth Management: we help asset management clients structure Irish products and analyse foreign withholding tax and international reporting requirements.

Real Estate: we provide specialist services to support the real estate and construction industry.

Aviation Finance: we provide local aircraft leasing knowledge from a single point of contact in Dublin.

Banking and Capital Markets: we help clients navigate the international tax landscape while providing vendor and buy-side M&A due diligence.

Insurance: we provide innovative solutions to the insurance industry, and assist with domestic and cross-border insurance mergers and transactions.

Our Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) team is the leading, largest and only dedicated international tax practice of its kind in Ireland. Our team advises international groups, from early stage start-ups to mature multinational entities, investing in and through Ireland. We help these organisations to optimise their global tax strategy, understand the impact of tax policy and legislative changes, and manage corporate lifecycle and merger and acquisition (M&A) events. While we specialise in Irish tax, most of our clients are headquartered abroad. Examples include our technology clients in Silicon Valley and pharma/medtech clients in Boston’s lifesciences hub. This provides us with many opportunities to travel to meet with key client stakeholders, participate in PwC European training events and, for some, embark on an international secondment.

Our Research & Development (R&D) team is the leading provider of R&D tax credit services to technology and engineering companies in Ireland. Our diverse team comprises a broad range of professionals, from electronic engineers to mechanical engineers, pharmaceutical, chemical and computer scientists, and tax and accounting advisors. Together, we assist large global technology, pharmaceutical and engineering companies with their R&D credit claims. We also assist in the preparation of technology, engineering and science R&D reports, and review client accounts and financial information to prepare R&D tax credit claims. Our work provides an excellent opportunity to visit the leading technology, pharmaceutical and engineering companies in Ireland, and the mix of office-based and on-site work provides a great opportunity to build strong relationships with clients.

In recent years, Revenue has increased resources devoted to audits and enhanced its risk profiling capabilities. It is also adopting a more data-driven approach to identify non-compliance. As a result, Revenue interventions are becoming more onerous, data requests more granular and disputes more frequent. Our Tax Risk and Controversy team helps clients manage their interactions with Revenue and the Tax Appeal Commission, and works with clients to mitigate the monetary and reputational risks they face. Our team is the leading and largest of its kind in Ireland and as part of our team, you will gain experience in the following areas:

• revenue audits
• Tax Control Framework and health checks
  
• Cooperative Compliance Framework
  
• tax appeals
  
• settlements
  
• cross-border tax audits and disputes
  
• transfer pricing dispute resolution
  
• tax transparency
  

Transfer Pricing (TP) focuses on how different units within an organisation work together, with a specific emphasis on how arrangements are priced within the group. The team works with clients, from small Irish start-ups to large multinationals, to help them make changes that ultimately improve their bottom line. Our projects often have an international tax focus. As a result, there are many opportunities to travel to meet clients and participate in PwC training events. We also offer secondments to other PwC offices, including Australia, Hong Kong and the United States. In addition, the TP team provides dispute resolution services, assists clients in managing and defending tax authority enquiries, and advises on the full range of intra-group financial transactions and the unique TP issues facing the financial services industry.

Our Employment Tax team helps large corporate employers stay ahead of the tax and regulatory changes that impact their businesses and workforces. Our clients include multinational organisations, public sector bodies, entrepreneurs and family businesses. As a result, our work is tremendously varied. Our tech-enabled team works on a varied portfolio of projects including, for example, supporting our clients on mergers and acquisitions, working with clients’ HR and tax departments to deliver workforce restructuring projects and identifying and managing tax costs and tax risks, including Revenue interactions. Our people also have the opportunity to join one or more of our subject matter expert teams, which include Equity, Gender Pay Gap and Payroll Consulting.

PwC’s Indirect Tax team advises global clients on VAT and customs issues in several industry sectors including digital, pharmaceutical, retail, asset management, banking, aviation, construction and real estate. As VAT is now a global tax, our clients expect us to have a global perspective and advise them on their global indirect tax footprint. In that respect, our work provides us with many opportunities to travel to meet with key client stakeholders, participate in PwC European training events and, for some, embark on an international secondment to one of our network firms in cities like London, Sydney and San Francisco. Team members are also regularly seconded to our clients in Ireland for short-term assignments. This allows us to gain an insight into our clients’ businesses and build relationships with key stakeholders.