Tax Law Clerk
Tax Law Clerk
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Job Description
Agile Consulting Group is a sales and use tax consulting firm looking for parttime help. In the wake of the South Dakota v. Wayfair Supreme Court ruling in June 2018 many companies are finding they have sales tax collection and reporting obligations in new states.As each states laws are different from one another weve found a need to help our clients make accurate taxing decisions for their product and/or service offerings.
The ideal candidate is a law school student recent graduate or someone experienced in reading laws statutes rules and regulations rulings court cases and other existing case law and synthesizing that information to arrive at a clear understanding of whether a state has determined if a specific product or service is subject to tax.This position is an opportunity to gain realworld experience in reading tax law applying it to specific situations in sales and use tax and then preparing communications to share internally with our team or externally with our clients to convey the technical taxspeak in a manner that it can be understood by layman or nontax/legal minds.
We expect this position to require 1520 hours per week initially beginning in our Norcross GA office but will allow for schedule flexibility and future potential workfromhome possibilities.
- Create taxability studies classifying clients product and service offerings as taxable or nontaxable
- Write explanations of any caveats to the taxability described above in clear easytounderstand nonlegal jargon
- Provide citations from existing tax code or other relevant case law to support your classifications as described above
- Prepare requests letters etc. to state taxing authorities to clarify tax status of products and services not clearly defined within existing tax law
- Attentiontodetail
- Reading comprehension particularly as it applies to tax law
- Critical higherorder thinking
- Written communication skills
- Verbal communication skills
- Current law school student recent graduate or prior experience reading law required
- Familiarity with Microsoft Excel a plus
- Prior experience with tax research software such as Thomson Reuters RIA Checkpoint is helpful but not required
Employment Type
Full Time
