A graduate career in Tax 

Support employers in making informed and compliant decisions regarding their businesses and workforces.

Our Workforce team assists large corporate employers stay ahead of tax and regulatory changes impacting their businesses and workforces. Our wide-ranging client base includes multinational organisations, public sector bodies, entrepreneurs and family businesses. Our work is varied, with our tech-enabled team leading projects such as supporting clients through mergers and acquisitions, working with clients’ HR and tax departments on workforce reshaping projects, and identifying and managing tax costs and risks, including Revenue interactions. As well as working with the other tax teams in the firm, we are part of the PwC Global Employment Tax network and collaborate with colleagues and clients in other territories on cross-border projects. There are also opportunities for travel and participation in PwC’s EMEA training academies.

Advise indigenous Irish companies, from PLCs to family-owned businesses, operating domestically and internationally, and high net worth individuals

The Domestic and International Outbound (DIO) team 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 clients optimise their tax strategy and understand the impact of tax policy and legislative changes on their business. The DIO team is also home to a number of specialist areas such as Tax Technology and Transformation, R&D and Pensions. Working in DIO offers an exciting opportunity to immerse yourself in various tax areas, experience diverse issues and build relationships with numerous client types. Travel opportunities are available through participation in the Firm’s Gateway secondment programme and PwC’s European training events.

Assist clients in understanding the unique transfer pricing issues facing their business.

Transfer Pricing (TP) focuses on how different units within an organisation work together. Specifically, it aims to analyse and ensure that tax is aligned with the business of multinational groups. Our team works with clients, from small Irish start-ups to large multinationals, to set up their policies or make changes that ultimately improve their bottom line. Our projects have an international tax focus, providing opportunities to travel for client meetings and PwC conferences or training events. We also offer secondments to other PwC offices, including Australia, Hong Kong and the United States. TP is truly an international area in tax evidenced through the fact that members of our team come from more than 15 different nationalities. Additionally, the TP team provides dispute resolution services, assists clients in managing and defending tax authority enquiries, prepares defence TP documentation, operationalises clients’ TP policies through automation solutions, assists clients on both buyer and seller side in M&A deals, and advises on intra-group financial transactions and unique TP issues in the financial services industry.

Specialise in providing advice across diverse financial services sectors.

Our Financial Services Tax practice works with clients in aviation finance, banking and treasury operations, insurance, asset and wealth management, and more. We help clients manage the tax consequences of their strategic, commercial and day-to-day activities.

Asset and Wealth Management (AWM): As the largest Big 4 firm with a dedicated Asset and Wealth Management team, PwC has unparalleled experience in servicing the asset management industry. Within the core AWM group, we help clients structure their Irish and international funds and advise on foreign withholding tax, capital gains tax exposures and international investor reporting requirements. Our Alternative Asset Management team focuses on clients with strategies in hedge funds, private equity, private debt and infrastructure. Our Real Estate team, which is part of the AWM team, analyses the tax implications of property deals and transactions.

Aviation Finance: We support aircraft leasing clients with international transactions by providing local expertise and working closely with our colleagues across PwC’s global network. Our global aviation finance network, led from Dublin, has dedicated specialists in over 120 countries, offering local knowledge from a single point of contact in Dublin.

Banking and Insurance: We provide innovative solutions to the banking and insurance industries and assist with domestic and cross-border mergers and transactions. Our banking and capital markets clients range from domestic to global institutions, including the growing tech-focused banking sector (fintech). Across the Financial Services Tax practice, we support clients in navigating the international tax landscape while providing vendor and buy-side M&A due diligence.

Help clients understand their global VAT and customs footprint and the tax obligations it raises.

PwC’s Indirect Tax team advises domestic and global clients across all sectors on VAT, customs, excise, and trade issues. Our client base spans digital, pharmaceutical, retail, asset management, banking, aviation, construction, private clients and real estate sectors. Our team invests in technology solutions to enhance our services and provide the best experience for our clients and team.

• VAT: VAT is a global tax and our clients expect us to have a global perspective and advise them on their global indirect tax footprint. This provides opportunities to work with a global network of contacts, travel for client meetings, participate in PwC training events and, for some, embark on international secondments to cities like London, Sydney and San Francisco. We are one of the largest VAT teams in the country and work closely with an extensive portfolio of clients based in Ireland. We  gain insights into our clients’ businesses and help them manage their tax filing obligations, interactions with tax authorities and strategic approach to managing VAT.

• Global Trade and Customs: Global trade and customs expertise is in high demand, and our team is the country’s largest dedicated team of specialists. We help clients efficiently manage the import and export of goods and cross-border supply of intangibles. We advise on excise duties and emerging indirect taxes in the ESG space.

Assist clients in planning for and processing all aspects of their research and development tax credit claims.

Our Research and Development (R&D) team is the leading provider of R&D tax credit services to technology and engineering companies in Ireland. Our diverse team includes professionals from backgrounds such as electronic and mechanical engineering, pharmaceutical, chemical, and computer science, as well as tax and accounting advisors. We assist large global technology, pharmaceutical and engineering companies with their R&D credit claims, prepare R&D reports, and review client accounts and financial information for R&D tax credit claims. Our work offers excellent opportunities to visit leading companies in these sectors and build strong client relationships through a mix of office-based and on-site work.

Help clients manage their tax controversy footprint.

In recent years, Revenue has increased resources devoted to audits and enhanced its risk profiling capabilities, 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, mitigating monetary and reputational risks. Our team, the largest of its kind in Ireland, provides experience in the following areas:

• Revenue interventions: Assisting during interventions and managing relationships with Revenue to ensure compliance and minimise risk.

• Joint audits: Managing joint audits for a unified approach in multiple jurisdictions.

• Defence files: Preparing robust defence files to support taxpayer positions.

• Tax appeals: Navigating the tax appeals process and assisting with hearings before the Tax Appeals Commission and higher courts.

• Settlement negotiation: Assisting clients with qualifying disclosures and negotiating with Revenue to resolve disputes.

• Transfer pricing disputes: Advising on effective resolution strategies such as mutual agreement procedure, correlative adjustment and advanced pricing agreements.

Deliver efficient and high-quality corporate and VAT tax compliance services.

Our Compliance Tax Centre (CTC) in Kilkenny delivers quality compliance with great efficiency, providing end-to-end corporate tax compliance services and assistance with VAT compliance. We offer tax compliance in a human-led, data-driven and tech-powered way.

Provide leading-edge, corporate-focused pension advice and personal financial planning.

Our Pensions team advises many of the largest organisations in Ireland. We have a strong reputation for leading-edge, corporate-focused advice and have grown significantly over the past five years. We are now the largest independent pension consultancy in the Irish marketplace. Our focus on governance and independence allows us to view pension issues within the wider business context, and we have developed intellectual property around proactive liability management and pension change projects. We draw on the breadth of PwC’s technical and expert resources to find unique solutions encompassing wealth, taxation and other areas.

In addition to advising corporate entities on their pension arrangements, we have a team that advises individuals on strategic personal financial planning. This spans all areas of personal finance, including asset management, retirement planning and estate planning.