Office of Chief Counsel, IRS, is looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our team and gain valuable experience in a legal environment. Our mission is to serve America's taxpayers fairly and with integrity by providing correct and impartial interpretation of the internal revenue laws and the highest quality legal advice and representation for the IRS. It is a great place to work with an excellent benefits package and family-friendly atmosphere.

Duties

Office of Chief Counsel, IRS, the largest tax law firm in the country, is looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our team and gain valuable experience in a legal environment. Our mission is to serve America's taxpayers fairly and with integrity by providing correct and impartial interpretation of the internal revenue laws and the highest quality legal advice and representation for the IRS. It is a great place to work with an excellent benefits package and family-friendly atmosphere. This announcement is being used to fill positions within multiple Business Units in the Office of Chief Counsel. As a General Attorney (Tax) for the Associate Chief Counsel, you will perform the following principal duties within your assigned Business Unit and expertise:

Requirements

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• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. To qualify for this position of General Attorney (Tax) you must meet the qualification requirements listed below at the time of referral or by the closing of this announcement, whichever is first: Basic Requirements for General Attorney (Tax): Possess at least the first professional law degree (LL.B. or J.D.) from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association; AND Applicants must be an active member in good standing of the bar of a State, U.S. Commonwealth, U.S. territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; GS-12 Experience Requirements: 1 year of general professional legal experience GS-13 Experience Requirements: 1 year of general professional legal experience; plus 1 year of professional legal tax experience GS-14 Experience Requirements: 1 year of general professional legal experience; plus 2 year(s) of professional legal tax experience Professional Legal Tax Experience is defined as legal work in one of following areas of tax expertise: Corporate; Financial Institutions and Products; Income Tax and Accounting; International; or Passthroughs and Special Industries. At least one year of this experience must be equivalent to the work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service. Tax Area Expertise may include, but not limited to the following experience: Corporate: Experience working on the application of Federal Income Tax laws concerning Subchapter C and the consolidated return regulations to complex corporate transactional issues, including corporate organizations, reorganizations, liquidations, spin-offs, transfers to controlled corporations, distributions to shareholders, debt vs. equity determinations, bankruptcies, and consolidated return issues affecting groups of affiliated corporations among other matters. Financial Institutions and Products: Tax matters involving financial institutions and financial products, including the taxation of banks, insurance companies, regulated investment companies, real estate investment trusts, asset securitization arrangements, life insurance contracts, annuities, notional principal contracts, options, forwards, futures, debt instruments (including original issue discount obligations and tax-advantaged bonds), hedging arrangements, and other types of innovative financial instruments and entities. Income Tax and Accounting: Experience working on general tax accounting issues, such as: recognition and timing of income and deductions, sales and exchanges, capital gains and losses, accounting methods and periods, installment sales, long term contracts, and inventories, and assignments involving complex and difficult legal questions requiring extensive research, analysis, and evaluation. International: Legal tax experience in U.S. international tax matters. Such experience should involve experience in providing regulatory and other technical guidance and legal advice on a variety of international tax issues pertaining to cross-border transactions and activities, such as taxation of inbound or outbound investment, including areas such as the TCJA provisions, subpart F, foreign tax credits, sourcing of income and deductions, income tax treaties, cross-border financial transactions, international corporate and partnership issues, transfer pricing, withholding, and exchange of information, in the context of planning, examination, and/or litigation, and assignments involving complex and difficult legal questions requiring extensive research, analysis, and evaluation. Passthroughs and Special Industries: Taxation matters involving passthrough entities, including the income taxation of partnerships, S corporations, trusts, and their owners and beneficiaries, the classification of entities, the taxation of estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers, income tax credits, cooperative housing corporations, farmers' and other cooperatives, low-income housing credits, research and experimental expenditures, taxation concerning natural resources and energy production, certain homeowner associations, and certain excise tax issues. Note: Only experience gained after Bar Admission may be credited as Professional Legal Experience. Education Substitution: An LL.M. degree in the field of this position (i.e. tax, GLS-related, orP&A- FOIA/Disclosure related field) may be substituted for the one year of the general legal experience listed above. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.

Education

For positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying for this position by substituting education or training for experience, submit a copy of your transcripts or equivalent. An official transcript will be required if you are selected.

A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address Office of Chief Counsel, IRS Staffing and Classification Branch 1111 Constitution Ave., NW Washington, DC 20224 US
• Name: Joseph Daniels
• Phone: 469-801-1010
• Email: [email protected]