Tax Intern, International Tax Services - Summer 2027 (Houston)

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for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Include only sections that have real specific content. No job title heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Job Summary: "The Tax Intern, International Tax Services will utilize their educational background and organizational skills while taking direction from more experienced team members to become familiar with assisting in consulting with clients on cross-border tax matters. Responsibilities will include performing tax research and analysis of various international tax issues to assist in providing international tax advice and working with software applications to assist clients with tax reporting obligations for international operations." That's a prose description; could go under About the role? Usually "About the role" heading. We'll put that as

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with that text. Responsibilities: The posting lists many duties under "Job Duties" with subcategories: Tax Consulting, Tax Specialization, Research, Tax Compliance, Tax Technology, ASC 740-10, Other duties as required, Supervisory Responsibilities N/A. We need to extract substantive duties as list items. We should not include "Supervisory Responsibilities N/A" as it's not substantive. Also "Other duties as required" is vague; maybe we can include but it's generic. Better to include only specific duties. We'll create a

• list for responsibilities. We need to capture each bullet: The text under each subheading is a paragraph describing duties. We can break into separate list items for each duty phrase. Let's extract: Tax Consulting: - Assists with developing, recommending, and implementing critical thinking to provide clients with tax advice on international tax issues - Gains exposure to the development of work plans for all assigned clients - Learns about international tax law relevant to particular clients and how that law can be appropriately applied to client facts - Monitors tax law and client factual developments on a daily basis - Coordinates with BDO non-US colleagues in approximately 160 countries on how US tax rules align with foreign tax law to impact client transactions Tax Specialization: - Begins to develop an understanding of the technical and practical issues and opportunities regarding International taxation and explores specializing in one or more international tax areas Research: - Identifies when research is necessary and frames issue to be researched; identifies sources of all reliable and relevant information including information tending to contradict preferred positions; accesses those sources and retrieves that information; analyzes facts and authorities; understands their weight; and reports on analysis - Assists in preparing Written Tax Advice (WTA) on international tax and cross-border transactions Tax Compliance: - Assists in obtaining required client information to utilize in the preparation of international tax compliance forms and US international informational reporting - Begins to develop a basic level of understanding of tax compliance as evidenced by: - Ability to use Firm tax compliance software to maximize efficiency in tax preparation process - Understanding international tax compliance topics such as Subpart F income, Earnings and Profits adjustments and foreign tax credits and analyzing cross-border transactions for tax return impacts, including Section 351 and Section 304 transactions, liquidations under Sections 331 and 332, and reorganizations under Section 368 Tax Technology: - Utilizes tax research databases such as RIA, BNA, Lexis Nexis - Utilizes Go Systems, and other tax-related software with some supervision ASC 740-10: - Begins to develop a basic understanding of ASC 740-10 as it applies to international tax issues. - Understands and applies Firm policies, standards, and the BDO Tax Quality Manual Other duties as required: maybe skip. Supervisory Responsibilities N/A: skip. Now Requirements/Education Qualifications etc. Education Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: includes bullet list: - Bachelor’s degree, preferred - Enrolled in a Bachelors or Master’s program in Accounting, Taxation or Master of Laws (LLM) degree program other relevant field, required - Leadership experience, preferred - License/Certifications: J.D. or pursuing credits towards a CPA, preferred - Software: Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel and PowerPoint, preferred - Experience utilizing RIA, BNA, Lexis Nexis and/or Westlaw, preferred - Language: N/A (skip) - Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: - Strong written and verbal communication skills - Ability to follow instructions as directed - Ability to work effectively in a team setting - Positive attitude and willingness to learn - Seeks advice of appropriate superiors regarding issues related to compliance We need sections: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. The posting lumps them together. We could split: Requirements (education, experience, license/certifications), Qualifications (maybe same), Skills (knowledge, skills & abilities). But we must not create thin sections; better to combine into one section like "Requirements" or "Qualifications". The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We can choose which to include based on content. We have content for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (education, experience, licences), Skills (communication etc). We could also have Qualifications (maybe same as Requirements). To avoid duplication, we could put education/experience/licences under Requirements, and skills under Skills. Qualifications maybe not needed. Pay: The posting includes salary ranges per state. That's substantive. So we should include a Pay section with those ranges. Should we list them as a
  • each? Probably yes. Schedule: Not mentioned. No schedule info. So we omit Schedule. Benefits: The posting includes a paragraph about benefits: "About Us" section includes description of BDO, ESOP, Total Rewards, etc. That's benefits info. So we can include Benefits section with that prose. Also there is a line: "Learn more about our benefits: BDO Total Rewards encompass more than traditional benefits. Click here to find out more ! Benefits may be subject to eligibility requirements." That's benefits. We'll include that. We must remove boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, etc. Also remove "About Us" maybe we keep as Benefits? Actually "About Us" is more about company description; but we can treat that as Benefits? Might be better to put under "About the role"? But we already have About the role for job summary. The "About Us" is generic company info; could be considered Benefits? Not exactly. However the instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. The "About Us" is specific content about the firm, its values, ESOP, etc. That could go under a section like "About the company" but not in allowed headings. Allowed headings list includes Benefits, Pay, Schedule, etc. Could we put it under Benefits? The benefits paragraph mentions ESOP, Total Rewards, etc. The "About Us" paragraph also mentions ESOP and Total Rewards. It's overlapping. We could combine them into Benefits section. Thus Benefits section: include the paragraph about BDO's purpose, values, ESOP, Total Rewards, etc. Also the line about learning more about benefits. We'll strip the EEO lines and the "Click here to find out more !" maybe keep as part of benefits? It's a call to action; maybe we keep but it's not boilerplate? It's a link instruction; but we can keep as it's part of benefits description. However the instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "Click here to find out more !" is not exactly boilerplate but it's a call to action; maybe we keep it as it's part of benefits description. But it's not substantive info; it's a directive. Might be considered application instruction? Not exactly. Safer to omit it? The instruction says remove application instructions. This is not application instruction but a link to learn more about benefits. Might be considered navigation. I'd omit it to be safe. Thus Benefits section: include the paragraph about BDO's purpose, values, ESOP, Total Rewards. Now Pay section: list the ranges. We need to output only HTML fragment, no markdown. Let's craft:

    About the role

    The Tax Intern, International Tax Services will utilize their educational background and organizational skills while taking direction from more experienced team members to become familiar with assisting in consulting with clients on cross-border tax matters. Responsibilities will include performing tax research and analysis of various international tax issues to assist in providing international tax advice and working with software applications to assist clients with tax reporting obligations for international operations.

    Responsibilities

    • Assists with developing, recommending, and implementing critical thinking to provide clients with tax advice on international tax issues
    • Gains exposure to the development of work plans for all assigned clients
    • Learns about international tax law relevant to particular clients and how that law can be appropriately applied to client facts
    • Monitors tax law and client factual developments on a daily basis
    • Coordinates with BDO non-US colleagues in approximately 160 countries on how US tax rules align with foreign tax law to impact client transactions
    • Begins to develop an understanding of the technical and practical issues and opportunities regarding International taxation and explores specializing in one or more international tax areas
    • Identifies when research is necessary and frames issue to be researched; identifies sources of all reliable and relevant information including information tending to contradict preferred positions; accesses those sources and retrieves that information; analyzes facts and authorities; understands their weight; and reports on analysis
    • Assists in preparing Written Tax Advice (WTA) on international tax and cross-border transactions
    • Assists in obtaining required client information to utilize in the preparation of international tax compliance forms and US international informational reporting
    • Ability to use Firm tax compliance software to maximize efficiency in tax preparation process
    • Understanding international tax compliance topics such as Subpart F income, Earnings and Profits adjustments and foreign tax credits and analyzing cross-border transactions for tax return impacts, including Section 351 and Section 304 transactions, liquidations under Sections 331 and 332, and reorganizations under Section 368
    • Utilizes tax research databases such as RIA, BNA, Lexis Nexis
    • Utilizes Go Systems, and other tax-related software with some supervision
    • Begins to develop a basic understanding of ASC 740-10 as it applies to international tax issues.
    • Understands and applies Firm policies, standards, and the BDO Tax Quality Manual

    Requirements

    • Bachelor’s degree, preferred
    • Enrolled in a Bachelors or Master’s program in Accounting, Taxation or Master of Laws (LLM) degree program or other relevant field, required
    • Leadership experience, preferred
    • J.D. or pursuing credits towards a CPA, preferred
    • Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel and PowerPoint, preferred
    • Experience utilizing RIA, BNA, Lexis Nexis and/or Westlaw, preferred

    Skills

    • Strong written and verbal communication skills
    • Ability to follow instructions as directed
    • Ability to work effectively in a team setting
    • Positive attitude and willingness to learn
    • Seeks advice of appropriate superiors regarding issues related to compliance

    Benefits