Careers in Tax

As a member of the Indirect Tax team 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. You could also be providing training to 20 finance professionals in a large multinational company or even coordinating Indirect Tax analysis from several countries!

The nature of our clients can vary just as much. From new start-ups with what could be the next big idea to sweep the “sharing economy” to established Irish entities and even leading multinational organisations. We work with all categories of companies in various industries and sectors.

Life in VAT can no doubt be challenging but it is rarely dull. Working in Indirect tax, you'll integrate with a close team while learning on the job and hopefully have some laughs along the way while you do it. You'll need to be a team player with a good attention to detail, motivated and a desire to learn and develop quickly. We look for someone who can develop genuine relationships with both colleagues and clients in their own unique way and someone who enjoys the challenge of the varied and complex projects which we work on.

Working in Indirect Tax, you’ll gain wide-ranging experience across different industries and opportunities to work internationally, and receive the support you need to become an effective tax professional.

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Every client of Private Client Services is unique however, many share similar traits…cautious, trustworthy, generous, family orientated, financially successful, and entrepreneurial. Ultimately they are very aware of the responsibilities that wealth can bring.

Our clients look for discreet tax management of their personal wealth through a mutually beneficial relationship. They want to know that we have their best interests at heart and that when we are called upon they have our support. We develop and nurture a deep understanding of what their needs are and in time the future needs of their families. A big part of our day to day service includes family succession planning. From clients selling their businesses and planning to pass on this wealth to the next generation, to developing a philanthropy strategy that fits in with the wishes of the family. We draw on the expertise of our team and our internal EY resources to deliver strategies that are fit for purpose.

Another aspect to our service offering is focusing on protecting wealth that has been built up over many years. Our tax planning involves incorporating the major taxes including Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Capital Acquisitions Tax, Corporate Tax and Stamp Duty. We look for people to work in our team who are commercially aware, have a technical understanding of tax, who are willing to think outside the box and present creative tax strategies that develop an integrated tax plan for the client. No easy feat, but the enjoyment of the work comes with meeting the client’s needs and further enhancing the relationship. Our clients are with us for the long term. As we get to know them and their families we become their trusted advisors. Transactions may be one off but the client relationship is long term.

If you’re passionate about acting as a trusted business advisor and collaborating with people to get the right answer, you’ll feel right at home here.

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Research and Development (R&D) tax services is a diverse and fast moving area to work in. The team is comprised of tax professionals as well as engineers, chemists, PhDs and industry experts. We work with clients across all industry sectors and all companies, from multinationals to SMEs, assisting them in availing of R&D incentives available in Ireland.

Our tax and science professionals work together on client engagements to deliver their combined expertise. To name just a few of our services, we calculate R&D expenditure, prepare technical project reports, conduct technical interviews and provide full Revenue audit support. The advantage of having science professionals on the team is key to the delivery of our services as in order for a company to make a successful R&D team, they need to get the buy in of their own researchers and developers, and these people need to work with us in compiling the project reports and claims. Our science professionals have the technical expertise and experience to ensure the project write-ups are to a sufficient technical detail in order to qualify and maximise the scope of the R&D tax credit claim.

Working in R&D tax services, whether as a tax or science professional gives you the chance to work with very innovative companies who are developing cutting edge technologies. Join our R&D team and you'll have the the opportunity to learn something new every day.

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The role of the Transfer Pricing team is to assist clients with ensuring that their transactions between related parties are priced on comparable terms to similar transactions that would have been performed had the parties not been related. To put it simply, between third-parties or to ensure transactions are conducted at arm’s length. Common inter-company transactions include the provision of tangible goods, services, intellectual property and financing. Tax authorities around the world have an interest in ensuring that inter-company transactions are priced on arm’s length terms to avoid companies using transfer pricing to put disproportionate amounts of profit in low tax jurisdictions. As such there is a general body of transfer pricing guidance issued by the OECD. While the Transfer Pricing team operates in the wider tax function, the majority of our work relies on economic principles and considering what commercial enterprises might do if the transaction we are looking at was between two unrelated parties. Transfer pricing sits within the overall tax practice and specifically within the International Tax Services sub-service line.

As Irish transfer pricing rules primarily apply to only the largest companies, the majority of our clients are the larger Irish Groups or foreign multinationals with a presence in Ireland. Our work spans across all industries, however with technology and pharmaceutical being two of the biggest sectors in Ireland, our work in these areas is more common. We work on a variety of types of transactions, be it acquisitions, restructurings, or just the day-to-day operations of a business.

In our team we have a range of academic backgrounds, from economics, to law, to business and mathematics. While transfer pricing is primarily focused on economics, an economics degree is by no means a pre-requisite. We’re looking for people with a natural curiosity and inquisitive nature, and a general interest in business issues. People who can look at a situation and can rationalise how it happened, or hypothesise what might happen next.

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