Pros
I genuinely can't think of any pros
Cons
Disclaimer before reading this long-winded paragraph: For anyone who is looking to get your CPA and will be working in this department, PLEASE double check that the job title and description will count towards your CPA report. There have been multiple instances where these clowns have lied to people’s faces during job interview that their role will count towards CPA when it absolutely will not. So please email someone from the CPA team with your job title and description. The tax department was one of the worst places that I have worked at, and most the problems stem from the management team in charge of the department. Just a miserable group of people whose only goal is to make you as miserable as they are. From the moment you start working, they will make virtually no effort to make you feel like you belonged there, and they will just outright ignore you and it doesn’t help that the managers have their own little exclusive private club that you can’t be a part of unless you do some serious ass-kissing. As far as communication and organization goes, it’s virtually non-existent and you will be stuck dealing with multiple issues that should have been fixed if a more competent group of people were in charge and you will find yourself filling tax amendments every month since everything is so unorganized, which leads to inaccurate numbers. You're also going to find yourself lonely but don’t bother trying to talk to the other employees, as they heavily frown upon people talking and laughing with one another (unless it’s them that are talking and laughing with each other). It also doesn’t help that micromanagement is the preferred style for these clowns, which means that they will be breathing down your neck at every possible moment they can. If you don’t CC the managers on any email, they will let you know. If you go even 5 minutes over your lunch break, they will let you know. If you even think about leaving on time, they will let you know. Do not even try and make a mistake because they will make sure to the entire department that you made a mistake, but if any of the managers make a mistake, they will just sweep it under the rug and will genuinely act like they are perfect and that it’s everyone else who are idiots. There’s so much more that needs to be said but it would take too much of my time, so I’m just going to leave it there. Unsurprisingly, there is a very high turnover rate (especially for a department that only has 10-15 people in it), and I can recall a 3-month period in which 4 people had quit and 1 person had relocated to a different department despite it not paying as much.