Chartered Tax Adviser

Chancery Court Tax Chambers is seeking applications from UK Chartered Tax Advisers with at least 3 years post qualified tax advisory experience. Full STEP membership (in England & Wales) would be desirable but not essential. Preference will be given to English LLB (or GDL) graduates.

Your experience should have been gained in a professional services firm, be it an accountancy practice, law firm, wealth management firm, a trust corporation or a family office. This role will not suit candidates seeking to take the first step away from a tax compliance role.

The candidate should be eager to develop their experience and skills undertaking highly complex tax advisory and contentious work, where they will work under experienced tax counsel as part of a close knit and dynamic team.

The role is office based and involves undertaking research independently (using both online legal databases and printed texts) on novel, bespoke and high value tax issues, under time pressure with minimal supervision.

Key requirements

• Excellent academic background with a undergraduate degree (2:1 as a minimum) and A-Levels and GCSE (or equivalent).
• Highly self-motivated, organised and capable of working on your own initiative with minimal supervision;
• Excellent analytical skills, problem solving abilities, an excellent memory.
• Highly articulate and eloquent written and spoken English.
• Good working knowledge of key English legal concepts underpinning tax law, including contracts, trusts, partnerships, companies, insolvency, and land law.
• Extensive experience drafting detailed tax advisory reports and able to summarise and distil complex concepts.

Our clients include high and ultra-high net worth individuals, public figures, business owners and senior executives, trustees, funds and their professional advisers. The role will involve considerable direct client contact, so it is essential that you are experienced and comfortable in dealing with highly demanding clients (if direct access) and their advisers, who are typically solicitors, accountants, trustees and wealth managers.

Required Tax Expertise

You must have demonstrable experience in one or (ideally) more of the following areas of UK taxation:

• All direct taxes - income tax, capital gains tax, Inheritance Tax, ATED and SDLT and the key anti-avoidance provisions, reliefs, and exemptions.
• Private client tax work, residence and domicile issues, remittances, double taxation issues/treaties, UK and offshore trusts/funds/foundations, estates, companies and UK property/investment holding structures.
• Corporation Tax and VAT matters for small and medium sized owner managed businesses, investment companies and partnerships (including LLPs) and corporate restructuring.
• Tax administration, statutory enquiries, assessments, penalties, appeals, statutory reviews, statutory and non-statutory clearances, HMRC Code of Practice 9, GAAR, international exchange of information (CRS/FATCA/MDR) and public registers.

Recruitment Process

Please note that we typically receive a considerable volume of applications and the recruitment process therefore involves several stages, including an initial video interview and if successful, a detailed oral assessment in chambers comprising a real client case study with 30 minutes preparation time.

How to Apply

If you wish to apply for this role, please forward your CV and a cover letter outlining your experience, qualifications, and interest to [email protected]. Due to the number of applications, we are unable to provide written feedback to unsuccessful candidates, so please kindly refrain from requesting this.