Tax Associate, State and Local Tax | Multiple Locations Summer / Fall 2026

Join Our State & Local Tax Practice

At KPMG, you can become an integral part of a dynamic team at one of the world's top tax firms. Enjoy a collaborative, future-forward culture that empowers your success. Work with KPMG's extensive network of specialists and enjoy access to our Ignition Centers, where deep industry knowledge merges with cutting-edge technologies to create innovative tax solutions. Join a diverse team helping high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. Develop your career through a range of multifaceted engagements, formal training, and informal mentoring. At KPMG, we believe nothing is more important than investing in our culture because it has an investment in our people, our future, and what we stand for as a firm. KPMG is currently seeking an Associate to join our State & Local Tax practice.

Responsibilities :

• Assist multi-state companies with state and local tax issues (income / franchise, sales / use, excise and property tax) including compliance, consulting, planning and controversies
• Assist clients with business tax planning transactions and mergers and acquisitions including identifying and developing state and local tax issues and savings opportunities that arise from legal entity changes / transactions and in designing specific plans to help a business address its state and local tax matters
• Research and draft state and local tax technical memoranda
• Assist with M&A transactions involving acquisitions and dispositions of equity interests (e.g., corporate stock, LLC membership interests, etc.) and / or business assets
• Supervising the work of shared services team members and interns; assist in handling notices including coordination of shared resources
• Analyze, prepare and review tax workpapers and returns, estimated payments and extensions; stay current on state and local tax legislative, judicial and administrative developments
• Build capabilities in key technologies that enable tax professionals for client service delivery such as artificial intelligence (AI), Alteryx, Power BI and more
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to develop and sustain excellent client relationships

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