What can people tell me about working in Indirect Tax in either Big4 or the next tier of public firms?

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You will deal with a lot of state tax issues

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Unless they're focused on international indirect taxes.

what about busy season hours ?

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Thank you for the insight. I work in Indirect SALT in industry (a lot of Sales Tax, Property Tax, etc) and maybe one week every month for returns i will be busy but overall its consistent too and nothing crazy either.

At my firm - not big 4 - there is still a goal of 55 hr/week during busy season, but the people I’ve known in that area have usually been able to get by with less. No idea if that’s common from firm to firm though.

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thank you for the insight !

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