Summer Internship Corporate and Indirect Tax London 2021

Job description

Corporate & Indirect Tax

In Corporate and Indirect Tax, you’ll help clients - from the largest organisations to budding entrepreneurs and high‑net‑worth individuals - manage their tax risk, understand their obligations and comply with complex legislation. You’ll tackle a broad range of work that includes multinational advisory projects, mergers and acquisitions advice, tax compliance and researching business issues that affect clients’ tax affairs. You’ll work with clients on matters critical to their business including interpreting developments in case law, the implications of moving into new territories or introducing new products. You could be involved in purely UK activities or global projects, working on more efficient internal processes or on a merger or acquisition. You could work as part of a number of specialist areas within Corporate and Indirect Tax.

 

Programme

Our Summer Internships offer high calibre students the opportunity to experience work and life at PwC, and gain a valuable insight into our business and culture. You’ll work alongside graduate trainees and experienced professionals on live and interesting client projects. You will be doing real work on real clients so be prepared to get stuck in.

 

What you'll do

 
Corporate Tax

In Corporate Tax you'll help clients understand their obligations and comply with complex legislation, while managing the impact tax has on their businesses.

This could include

·  Making sure the tax compliance process runs smoothly
·  Liaising with our overseas offices to coordinate projects
·  Researching business issues that will affect clients’ tax affairs
·  Providing tailored tax advice to your clients
·  Researching, planning and tailoring ideas to clients' needs
·  Meeting and building relationships with your clients

Indirect Tax

In Indirect Tax, a highly commercial and extremely wide‑ranging field, you’ll be advising businesses on all areas of indirect tax including VAT, Customs Duties, Stamp Duty and the introduction of new taxes such as the Soft Drinks Levy. In any given day you could be involved with

·  Helping clients pay the right amount of tax and making sure they don’t overpay
·  Advising clients on the implications of changes to the indirect tax rules both in the UK and overseas
·  Collaborating with clients and colleagues across PwC both in the UK and our international member firms
·  Tackling special projects such as a business restructure or a merger or acquisition
·  Helping clients respond to HM Revenue and Customs enquiries and disputes
·  Making sure a client’s indirect tax reporting is accurate by working with them to introduce more efficient internal processes and controls
·  Working with clients to litigate disputes at the courts

Private Business and Private Client

Our Private Business and Private Client teams advise growing companies, partnerships and wealthy individuals on their local and overseas tax affairs while acting as a strategic consultant on things like business analysis, managing working capital and profit-sharing for partners.

 

Deals Tax

As well as our main Deals business area, we also have a specific Deals Tax team that work closely with our Deals practice and advises on the tax implications of Deals projects. Deals Tax covers three areas Business Recovery Services (BRS), Real Estate (RE) and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A).

Transfer Pricing

In Transfer Pricing you'll help organisations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties

Tax Reporting and Strategy

In Tax Reporting and Strategy (TRS) you’ll help businesses align their tax strategy with their wider business strategy, help to accelerate the impact of technology in tax, unlock data insights and meet their domestic and global compliance and reporting obligations.

 

What you'll need

You’ll need to be in your penultimate year of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree; or
You’ll need to be in your final year of an undergraduate degree with a one year postgraduate place confirmed; and
You’ll need to have, or be on course for a 2.1 degree or above in any subject. We determine whether you're on course for a 2.1 based on the grades you achieved in your last completed year of academic study.

Do you need a work permit?  

Please note that PwC is unable to sponsor any candidates for the following graduate roles as the Home Office's eligibility criteria will not be satisfied. For more information. For more information visit our website .

 

When to apply

The deadline for applications is 17 February 2021
The deadline for online assessments is 18 February 2021
Assessment centres will take place late March 2021

Job ID

43696BR
Location

London
Programme Type

Student
Line of Service

Tax
About Us

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Intake Year

2021
Start season

Summer
Entry Route

Summer internships in Tax
Entry Route Group

Internships
Local Region

London Region
Application deadline

17-Feb-2021