Career in direct taxes

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Mohit (Querist)
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30 April 2012 Dear Sir/Ma'am,

I am currently doing Articleship in a firm that has mainly Audits and has very little of Tax. Only during the Tax season do we do ITR filing and all Tax related work.
I wish to pursue a career in Direct Taxes and now I am confused as to whether it is possible to get into a Tax firm like a Big4 or a BMR after qualifying considering the fact that I have had exposure in Tax for only 2 months of a year i.e 6 months out of 36 months of my Articleship. I still have 4 months left for completion of my 1st year of Articles so still transfer of Articleship is not ruled out.

Plz do reply....

Jai Bajaj

Jai Bajaj (Expert)
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01 May 2012 Mohit the big firms are very clear on there hiring policy. If you do not have any good exposure of Tax during articleship, it is very tough to get the entry into Tax department. If you are lucky you may get entry.
However I would suggest to apply at least to all Tax experts firms. There must be some firms which mainly work on Tax matters. You can join some mid sized tax consultancy firms and after having exposure you can move to big4.
In short you have to have the good exposure in Tax.

Mohit

Mohit (Querist)
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03 May 2012 But does that mean sir that only articles in the Tax Dept of Big 4's and only Tax firms can pursue a career in Direct Taxes. That would mean a very small figure right.

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Amol Gopal Kabra (CA,CS,DISA) (Expert)
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05 May 2012 Dear Mohit,
It doesnot matter whether you have adequate exposure in taxation or not. At the time of recruitment, only you need to have is adequate knowledge of direct taxes. I have seen many of my friends having average exposure in articleship about direct taxes but getting posted in DT in big 4. So no need to take transfer from articleship. And dont worry, you'll get placed in Direct Taxes.