# Tax Counsel - Information Reporting

**Company**: PayPal
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $137,000.00 - $203,500.00 Annually
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Tax Counsel - Information Reporting will be an experienced in-house tax attorney who will ensure overall compliance with policy related to information reporting and withholding tax rules (including FATCA, CRS, CARF and 1099) across global products, processes, and procedures.

The successful candidate will be able to work with cross-functional partners to evaluate new products and changes to existing products to determine applicability of existing information reporting policies and necessity for creation of new policies. They will exercise sound judgment in identifying legal risk and recommending defensible positions.

**Essential Responsibilities:**

- Independently advises on complex tax issues affecting business operations, transactions, and strategic initiatives.

- Develops and documents technical tax analyses supporting planning strategies, reporting positions, audit defense, and regulatory compliance.

- Partners directly with business units and Finance leadership to structure initiatives in a tax-efficient and compliant manner.

- Identifies tax risk exposures and recommends mitigation strategies consistent with PayPal’s overall risk tolerance.

- Coordinates with outside advisors where appropriate and manages discrete external engagements.

- May mentor junior attorneys or legal professionals and contribute to knowledge development within the tax function.

**Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications :**

- Ensure compliance with global information reporting (IRS, FATCA, CRS and CARF) requirements and electronic filings, corrections, B-notices.

- Review and evaluate new or updated global products for global information reporting impacts. Advise product development partners of any resulting policy requirements.

- Draft business requirement documents such as one-pagers to assist product development in drafting functional specification documents.

- Draft and review contract language, user agreements, terms and conditions specific to information reporting and withholding.

- Maintain highly effective partnerships with impacted business areas and related processes that impact compliance related to new global products, such as cryptocurrency reporting.

- Support initiatives related to system development and remediation activities to ensure regulatory compliance, process improvements and risk mitigation.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- 5+ years relevant tax experience and a Juris Doctor (JD) degree or foreign equivalent

- Admission to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.

- Demonstrated ability to independently manage significant tax matters.

The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:

- Northern California - (Virtual); ($137,000.00 - $203,500.00 Annually)

- San Jose, California: ($143,500.00 - $212,850.00 Annually)

- New York City, New York: ($143,500.00 - $212,850.00 Annually)

- Washington - (Virtual): ($137,000.00 - $203,500.00 Annually)

- Washington DC, District of Columbia: ($137,000.00 - $203,500.00 Annually)

- New York - (Virtual): ($137,000.00 - $203,500.00 Annually)

## Skills

### Required
- tax law
- information reporting
- withholding tax
- FATCA
- CRS
- CARF
- 1099

### Nice to have
- cryptocurrency reporting
- contract language
- user agreements

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