Build real tax experience and explore your future career
Programme overview
On the US/UK Cross Border Tax Summer Internship, you’ll shape the future with confidence, gaining hands‑on experience across two tax systems. Over four weeks, you’ll see how we help clients manage UK and US tax obligations and solve complex cross‑border challenges. You’ll take part in real client work, a structured case study, and receive on‑the‑job feedback, with the potential to fast‑track to a Graduate Programme.
Core skills for success
- Curiosity and motivation – Build your understanding of how UK and US tax systems interact for individual taxpayers.
- Collaboration – Work with colleagues across different teams, learning how to communicate clearly in a busy team environment.
- Analytical thinking – Interpret financial information and other personal data to support tax work and understand the differences in treatment between UK and US tax.
- Adaptability – Manage different tasks and priorities across a fast-paced, four-week programme, responding to new challenges and learning opportunities.
- Integrity – Deliver accurate work and take on feedback to build confidence and ensure high-quality outputs.
- Digital, data and AI fluency – Use EY tools and technology to support how tax work is delivered across international teams.
What you will be doing
- Support teams working on UK and US tax matters, helping prepare information that feeds into both UK and US tax returns and client deliverables.
- Learn how internationally mobile individuals manage tax across jurisdictions, including the challenges of operating in both the UK and US tax systems.
- Work in a group to complete a structured case study over the programme, applying research and problem‑solving to a realistic business scenario.
- Develop quickly through on‑the‑job feedback and end‑of‑programme assessment conversations, with the opportunity to fast‑track to the Graduate Programme if you perform well.
Please note: Due to UK policies, you must be based in the UK for the entire duration of the programme.
Eligibility for applying
If you’re in your penultimate year, or if you’re already in your final year but will be doing a one-year Master’s degree, or taking a gap year, this internship is for you.
You will need to be working towards an honours degree in any subject, have a minimum of grade 4/C GCSE (or equivalent) in English Language and Maths, or in your home language if you do not hold English Language GCSE, and three A-levels/Five Highers (or equivalent) to be eligible to apply.
While we welcome applications from candidates of all academic backgrounds, we are looking to recruit individuals who will succeed at EY in the role and future qualifications. We have completed several studies on academic attainment at A-level (or equivalents), candidate performance in the online assessments in the EY recruitment process, and how that predicts future performance at EY.
Throughout the recruitment process, we therefore assess your suitability for the EY role you have applied to by considering your scores in the online assessments and your academic attainment at A-level or equivalent. This approach is designed to ensure our joiners are successful in role and, where relevant, in the achievement of their professional qualifications. It is important to EY, and we have a duty of care which we take very seriously, to ensure our joiners are set up for long-term success.
We are also proud to partner with RARE recruitment, so that your application can be processed in the context of your socio-economic background. This allows us to give you the maximum credit for your achievements, assessing whether you have overachieved in light of your personal circumstances.