# Tax Litigator

**Company**: HM Revenue and Customs
**Location**: Belfast, Northern Ireland
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: GBP 45,544 - 55,157 per year
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As a Tax Litigator in HMRC's Legal Group, you will handle challenging tax appeals and undertake advocacy in the First-tier Tribunal. You will be responsible for:

- Working on a wide range of standard and complex tax appeals that require in-depth analysis of issues and interpretation of relevant legislation

- Understanding and interpreting large amounts of information to draw conclusions on litigation strategy and legal risk

- Making detailed written submissions to the Tribunal outlining HMRC's case

- Presenting hearings at the FTT and/or supporting colleagues who are presenting

- Undertaking application hearings before the FTT

- Working to and complying with Tribunal Directions

- Ensuring the Decision Maker is kept up to date and checking their witness statements

- Identifying and collating bundles of evidence for hearings and managing bundle preparation

- Attending case conferences and liaising with paralegal support

You will be expected to develop a high level of knowledge, skills, and understanding, and work as part of a fast-paced Litigation team. You will also be asked to support senior colleagues on projects and lead on wider pieces of work.

The role requires a tax or legal professional with experience in managing a portfolio of cases containing challenging tax issues. Essential skills include:

- Experience of working on challenging tax issues or legal issues

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to work under pressure and manage competing workloads

In return, you will gain varied and rewarding work, strong professional development, and the chance to build your profile in a respected and supportive environment.

The salary for this role is GBP 45,544 - 55,157 per year.

Alongside your salary, HM Revenue and Customs contributes to your being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

Benefits include:

- Pension contributions

- Family-friendly policies

- Personal support

- Coaching and development

## Skills

### Required
- tax appeals
- litigation
- advocacy
- legal research
- written and verbal communication

### Nice to have
- legal qualification
- tax qualification
- experience in managing a portfolio of cases

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