Tax Graduate Programme

Corporate Tax

Our corporate tax team encompasses a number of different areas such as International Tax Services (ITS), Global Compliance Reporting (GCR) and Domestic Tax Advisory .   Our tax professionals help many of the world’s largest multinational companies meet complex demands for tax planning, tax policy and controversy management, tax reporting and compliance, working across all sectors including Technology, Life Sciences and Retail.  It is an exciting team focused on advising on the ever changing national and international tax laws and the adoption of technology to help improve the delivery of tax offerings to clients.

Indirect Tax (VAT)

In a single day you can move from advising Irish colleagues on the VAT issues pertaining to property sales, to dealing with Revenue on a significant VAT refund application or even co-ordinating Indirect Tax analysis from many countries of which you may have never been to.

Private Client Services

Working with high net worth individuals and their families advising them on all aspects of their tax affairs including personal tax planning, residency, estate and succession planning and asset protection. We also advise privately owned companies including family business on a number of matters including M&A, transition of shares to next generation, re-organisations, governance structures etc.

Transfer Pricing

In Transfer Pricing service line, we assist companies with appropriately pricing and documenting their intercompany transactions to comply with various countries‘ rules and legislation which is imperative in managing tax risk. We do this by understanding their business (i.e. function performed, assets employed and risk assumed by each associated company in a related party transaction) through functional interview of the stakeholders and provide advisory, compliance support and litigation support in relation to their intercompany transaction pricing across various jurisdiction.

Technology and Transformation

Due to the pace of regulatory change, increasing demands for transparency, expanding digital tax administrations with escalating reporting requirements and regulations, it is essential that our clients’ tax functions operate in the most effective and efficient manner possible.

In Tax Technology & Transformation, we help clients to assess their tax function to get a better understanding of their current processes and identify areas for improvement. We also help them to determine how well they are connected to the evolving tax ecosystem. To do this, we utilise our deep knowledge of industry trends, third-party vendor capabilities and tax technology and work with our clients to develop solutions ranging from the improvement of a single process to the creation of a technology road map for building an intelligent tax function.

Real Estate Services

The EY Real Estate Tax Team provides specialist due diligence and structuring advisory services on the acquisition, development, financing, holding and disposal of real estate in Ireland. Our tax compliance services cover all tax heads relevant to the real estate sector.

People Advisory Services (PAS)

Our People Advisory Services (PAS) practice provides bespoke personal tax consulting advice and tax compliance services, in addition to advising individuals and employers on their work permit and cross border immigration obligations. Our PAS tax service covers all aspects of personal taxation, employment tax, self-employed individuals, social security, share/equity compensation and executive remuneration. We also assist employers in designing Mobility Policies to ensure regulatory compliance and talent development. We are a globally integrated practice and operate across in excess of 150 jurisdictions.

Transaction Tax

In Transaction Tax, we work on all of the tax aspects associated with Mergers & Acquisitions across a diverse range of sectors (e.g., technology, renewable energy, life sciences, etc.). Working closely with both other Transaction Tax team members and tax subject matter specialists from across the organisation, transaction tax involves:

• Performing tax due diligence procedures for our clients,
• Providing assistance to our clients in respect of both pre and post-acquisition structuring and integration,
• Working closely with our colleagues in Strategies and Transactions to deliver a comprehensive service offering and value to our clients,
• Liaising with clients and their legal advisors to achieve the desired commercial outcome in a tax efficient manner while also managing tax risk through the contractual process,
• Review of financial models from an Irish tax perspective to assist our clients in evaluating the commercial opportunity available,
• Assisting in the provision of tax advice to clients on a range of advisory projects.

Global Compliance Reporting (GCR)

The Global Compliance Reporting (GCR) team is an exciting team focused on complying with the ever changing national and international tax laws and the adoption of technology to help improve tax reporting processes. The GCR team focus on various tasks from tax filings, tax payments and tax reporting to ad hoc tax advice. The team work with domestic companies and companies in multi-national groups with an Irish tax reporting obligation across all sectors including Technology, Life Sciences and Retail. 

Research and Development (R&D)

The EY quantitative services group help businesses to access funding, grants, and incentives for their innovation, sustainability initiatives, and capital investments to achieve their innovation, sustainability and growth ambitions, thereby unlocking long-term value for our clients. The quantitative services team have a wide variety of skill sets from IT, Engineering and Life Science to Tax and Accounting.