Indirect Tax Disputes Manager

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Job description

Tax

We help our clients stay ahead of changes that impact their businesses, navigating complexity and risk. We deliver deep tax technical and legal expertise, while providing the critical context to make informed and compliant decisions. With clients ranging from multinational organisations and public sector bodies to entrepreneurs and family businesses, the work we do is diverse.

Hear from Ed Stacey, Tax People Leader about what a career in Tax could mean for you - from development, to our culture, to what we value in our people when building our team.

We help our clients stay ahead of changes that impact their businesses, navigating complexity and risk. We deliver deep tax technical and legal expertise, while providing the critical context to make informed and compliant decisions. With clients ranging from multinational organisations and public sector bodies to entrepreneurs and family businesses, the work we do is diverse.

Our Tax Disputes lawyers are integrated into PwC's tax business. This enables the team to offer clients a fully integrated tax disputes offering, covering all stages of the dispute from initial enquiry and investigation to final resolution either by agreement or through the courts. Litigation is not a separate stage in the resolution process - It is part of that process. Clients come to us as we can also offer the tax technical depth of knowledge and the ability to flex how we resolve disputes; including recourse to other settlement mechanisms such as ADR or Treaty resolution as well as our recognised expertise in tax litigation. [NB, Tax Disputes covers both Direct and Indirect Tax]

Qualified Lawyer (Qualified 3-6 years PQE) or suitably experienced para-legal, in the Indirect Tax Disputes Team

About the team
This market leading indirect tax disputes team currently consists of 16 fee earners with specialisms across all of the indirect taxes: VAT, customs duties, excise duty and all of the environmental taxes. We act for high profile clients, across all sectors. We provide clients with a full tax disputes offering, from tax appeals before the First-tier Tribunal and higher courts to judicial review and High Court claims for restitution. The team is also experienced in negotiating matters with HMRC and reaching a settlement on these without having recourse to the courts. We also assist clients with HMRC investigations. The team boasts the market leader in environmental taxes and this has been a really exciting area of growth for the team in recent years. The team can offer you excellent further training and career progression opportunities.

About the role
We are looking for an indirect tax disputes litigation specialist to join the London office at Embankment Place. Ideally you will be a qualified solicitor between three and six years PQE and have a keen interest, together with relevant experience, of working in indirect tax disputes. We will consider exceptional candidates who are not legally qualified but who have significant experience, over a number of years, of dealing with indirect tax disputes.

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Day to day management of ongoing litigation matters, from liaising with HMRC and the Tribunal to managing the PwC and client relationships
• Producing written advice for the client
• Drafting responses to correspondence
• Instructing Counsel, including preparing Instructions to Counsel and Notes of Conference/Consultation
• Drafting key documentation such as Directions, Notices of Appeal, witness statements
• Taking responsibility for billing and financial management of matters
• Presenting case law and technical updates to the indirect tax practice and at client events

Essential Skills and Experience

• UK qualified Solicitor/Barrister or qualified Solicitor from another common law jurisdiction
• Exceptionally, where not a UK qualified Solicitor/Barrister or qualified Solicitor from another jurisdiction, a paralegal with significant experience of dealing with indirect tax disputes
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Litigation experience, ideally in one or more indirect taxes (VAT, customs and excise duty, environmental taxes)
• Project / case management
• Technical excellence
• Ability to work independently
• Good time management and organisation
• Team player
• Desirable:
• LLB in law (or equivalent), 2:1 or above
• People management

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