Tax

Tax advisory is one of the most structurally supply-constrained talent markets in professional services. The global tax advisory market was valued at roughly USD 36.4 billion in 2024 and is forecast to grow from about USD 40.5 billion in 2025 to USD 94.7 billion by 2033, a compound annual rate near 11 percent, with Asia Pacific the fastest-growing region on the back of evolving GST regimes, transfer pricing rules and the digitisation of tax administration [1]. Demand for senior tax talent is being pulled forward by three simultaneous shifts: the OECD's BEPS Pillar Two global minimum tax, now live in more than 50 jurisdictions with the first GloBE Information Returns due in 2025 for FY2024 [2]; the move to near real-time indirect-tax reporting; and a marked escalation in audit and dispute activity aimed at multinationals [3].

Supply has not kept pace. The wider accounting profession has shed more than 300,000 practitioners in three years and the workforce has contracted around 17 percent since 2020, with roughly nine in ten finance leaders acknowledging a shortage and starting salaries rising [4]. At partner and director level in specialist tax, where a credential such as the ADIT or chartered tax qualification combines with a portable client following, the scarcity is acute. Firms that need to stand up a Pillar Two capability, a transfer pricing controversy bench or a global mobility desk cannot fill those seats from the open market.

CharteredPartners runs retained, mandate-by-mandate search for tax partners, directors and lift-out teams across the Big Four, mid-tier networks and independents in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Dubai and London. We map the market discipline by discipline, assess credentials and client portability rather than CVs alone, and protect confidentiality on both sides of a partner move.