Q: Big4 - Yearly salary increment

Tax require more brains. Not much but still more than audit

More intellectually stimulating means higher calibre people, and fewer jhks.

Pay still sux but if B4 is all you can get, then better to choose tax.

i heard that tax has greater exit opportunities, especially transfer pricing and GST. is that true?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Tax ey. Tax>audit. Go specialize. Tax lot lesser jhk. Tax high end, audit low end job.

Internatonal tax opportunity.

i see, thanks bro!


will try apply to tax then

Originally Posted by Unregistered

i see, thanks bro!


will try apply to tax then

Go apply Atp or Ata etc. Sure in

Originally Posted by Unregistered

i heard that tax has greater exit opportunities, especially transfer pricing and GST. is that true?

International tax.. transfer pricing is just a salt in the sea.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

i see, thanks bro!


will try apply to tax then

That is how you decide? Think about which interest you more. I have never considered tax as a career option given personal preference.

What age is the oldest big 4 partner

if really want to do tax, go join international tax. That’s where the big money are, when I check the billing system once I saw that most cross border tax advisory project billing are in millions

GST- avoid at all cost, boring , quarterly reporting, a lot of small saikang to do and u basically pigeon holed yourself ; corporate tax can do GST but not the reverse in commercial

Transfer pricing - specialised field, more interesting , but again pigeon holed yourself . Only really mega size banks or MNC has positions dedicated for transfer pricing

Personal income tax-lol if u want to be rich ppl’s dog , go bank do operations , have better money and career advancement

Corporate tax- good exit but if u want a commercial position, need to stay until 5 years and mgr and get the tax cert, besides u would be extremely disadvantaged when applying for commercial finance job cos u don’t have the audit acumen and most impt my , no ca sponsor from the big 4. Jumping out anywhere before that your skills are peanuts

My 2 cents as an ex big 4 who stayed in both audit and tax

Originally Posted by Unregistered

That is how you decide? Think about which interest you more. I have never considered tax as a career option given personal preference.

because i dont have interest, i rather have a job with better future prospect



and what op said does make sense



also no harm in trying to apply, if i get, i get it

Originally Posted by Unregistered

if really want to do tax, go join international tax. That’s where the big money are, when I check the billing system once I saw that most cross border tax advisory project billing are in millions

GST- avoid at all cost, boring , quarterly reporting, a lot of small saikang to do and u basically pigeon holed yourself ; corporate tax can do GST but not the reverse in commercial

Transfer pricing - specialised field, more interesting , but again pigeon holed yourself . Only really mega size banks or MNC has positions dedicated for transfer pricing

Personal income tax-lol if u want to be rich ppl’s dog , go bank do operations , have better money and career advancement

Corporate tax- good exit but if u want a commercial position, need to stay until 5 years and mgr and get the tax cert, besides u would be extremely disadvantaged when applying for commercial finance job cos u don’t have the audit acumen and most impt my , no ca sponsor from the big 4. Jumping out anywhere before that your skills are peanuts

My 2 cents as an ex big 4 who stayed in both audit and tax

thank you for the insight brother, will look into international tax