Tax Associate, International Tax Services – International Tax

Job Description

Tax Associate, International Tax Services – Summer 2027 | BDO USA

The Tone:
This is a seasonal internship at BDO USA, located in Dallas, TX. BDO USA is an organization that provides assurance, tax, and advisory services to clients across the U.S. and globally. This role is crucial as it utilizes an individual’s educational background and organizational skills to assist more experienced team members in consulting with clients on complex cross-border tax matters. The associate will contribute to providing international tax advice and assist with essential tax reporting obligations for clients’ international operations, making a direct impact on their ability to grow with confidence.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Seasonal
• Location: In-person Dallas, TX
• Pay: $71000–$120000 yearly
• Mission: Assist clients with cross-border tax matters by providing international tax advice and supporting tax reporting obligations for international operations.
• Tech Stack: RIA, BNA, Lexis Nexis, Go Systems, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Tax Consulting: Develop, recommend, and apply critical thinking to provide clients with tax advice on international tax issues, learning to apply relevant international tax law and coordinating with BDO non-US colleagues on aligning US and foreign tax rules.
• Tax Compliance: Assist in obtaining required client information and utilizing it to prepare international tax compliance forms, demonstrating a basic understanding of topics like Subpart F income, Earnings and Profits adjustments, and foreign tax credits.
• Research: Identify when research is necessary, frame issues, access and analyze reliable information including contradictory positions, and assist in preparing Written Tax Advice on international tax and cross-border transactions.
• Tax Technology: Use tax research databases such as RIA, BNA, and Lexis Nexis, along with other tax-related software like Go Systems with supervision, to maximize efficiency in the tax preparation process.
• Tax Specialization: Begin developing an in-depth understanding of the technical and practical issues and opportunities regarding international taxation, exploring specialization in one or more specific international tax areas.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Entry-Level position requiring a Bachelor’s degree, with a preference for Accounting or other business-related majors.
• Experience: Prior internship experience within a professional services firm is preferred, as is any prior tax experience.
• Skills: Solid verbal and written communication skills; strong analytical and basic legal and tax research skills; solid organizational skills with the ability to meet project deadlines and focus on details; capability to multi-task successfully both independently and within a team environment; basic understanding of technical and practical issues and opportunities regarding one or more areas of taxation and law.
• Bonus: A J.D., LLM, and/or MST/MBT is preferred; CPA certification, Attorney (admitted to practice in a U.S. jurisdiction), or Internal Revenue Service Enrolled Agent (“EA”) (or equivalent) is preferred; experience utilizing RIA, BNA, Lexis Nexis, and/or Westlaw is preferred; a strong legal writing background and familiarity with the IRAC method of analysis are also a bonus.