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Tax - General Attorney in Florence, KY

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) May 22,2023 Mar 28,2023 Location USA Florence KY
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Government

Attorney

Tax - General

Min 1 yrs required

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Tax Law Specialist, GS 12 – 13 Duties: Performs the full range of research and analysis on matters of tax law in order to interpret Federal tax laws, regulations, congressional committee reports, revenue rulings and procedures, pending legislation, and translate into the most sensitive and complex tax forms, instructions, explanatory publications, and other materials to enable taxpayers to understand and meet their filing and other tax responsibilities. Prepares drafts of new or revised material and presents to internal customers through the Tax Forms Coordinating Committee (TFCC) and other venues to ensure that the needs of internal customers are met and to assure that the Federal tax laws are administered effectively. Meets with TFCC members and others, including front-line and other field assistance personnel, to seek reactions, address concerns, and coordinate the interests of the various Service organizational units. Often takes the lead during TFCC and planning meetings. Reviews suggestions from taxpayers, tax practitioners, industry, public interest and other groups, and internal customers regarding simplification, burden reduction, and other improvements to division products. Reviews results of focus groups, surveys, and other customer satisfaction measurement tools to address concerns raised. Develops and implements simplification, paperwork reduction, and other improvements to division products. Recommends creation of additional products to reflect tax law, etc. chances, and to address previously unmet customer needs. Provides assistance on tax law matters to other Service functions, including review of products dealing with tax law matters created by other functions.

Qualification and Experience

Qualifications: The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. 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 the number of hours worked per week on your resume.

Specialized Experience: GS-12 Level: Must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes Experience with legal, tax accounting, or other experience that required knowledge of Federal tax laws, regulations, precedent decisions, or other areas related to the position to be filled. Examples of qualifying experience include: Preparing, reviewing, or applying rulings, advisory letters, memoranda, etc., related to Federal taxation. Analyzing and adjudicating tax claims, appeals, settlement offers, or similar work related to Federal tax operations. Work as an attorney that required legal research, analysis, and preparation of briefs or similar documents interpreting laws and regulations. Work as an accountant, auditor, or investigator that required application of Federal tax accounting principles and/or the Internal Revenue Code and related laws.

In addition, the experience must be sufficient to demonstrate the following: Experience with federal tax laws, regulations, revenue rulings, revenue procedures and other technology-related matters to address taxpayers' needs; Experience with tax laws to convert these and other technical matters into clear concise, logical and easy to understand explanatory material; Experience in accounting methods to interpret new tax laws and assist in addressing customers needs; Experience researching using on-line and paper methods to analyze tax issues; Experience within learning theory and cognitive thinking, as they apply to the writing, design; Experience with printing and design requirements and techniques, computer specifications and programming requirements, and of Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML) or other designated electronic composition and publishing system to compose documents and other materials.

Specialized Experience: GS-13 Level: Must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes Experience with legal, tax accounting, or other experience that required knowledge of Federal tax laws, regulations, precedent decisions, or other areas related to the position to be filled. Examples of qualifying experience include: Preparing, reviewing, or applying rulings, advisory letters, memoranda, etc., related to Federal taxation. Analyzing and adjudicating tax claims, appeals, settlement offers, or similar work related to Federal tax operations. Work as an attorney that required legal research, analysis, and preparation of briefs or similar documents interpreting laws and regulations. Work as an accountant, auditor, or investigator that required application of Federal tax accounting principles and/or the Internal Revenue Code and related laws.

In addition, the experience must be sufficient to demonstrate the following: Experience with Federal tax laws, regulations, revenue rulings, revenue procedures and other pertinent technical matters to address taxpayers' needs; Experience converting complex tax laws and other technical matters into clear, concise, logically arranged, well written and easy to understand explanatory material; Experience with accounting methods, principles, techniques and practices; Experience with tax law, research techniques that include using on-line and paper methods to research and analyze tax issues; Experience with learning theory and cognitive thinking, as they apply to the writing, design, and presentation of materials; Experience with printing and design techniques, computer specifications and programming requirements, and Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML) or other designated electronic composition and publishing system to design and produce materials and documents.
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Meet Time In Grade (TIG) Requirement: Must meet applicable TIG requirements to be considered eligible. To meet TIG for positions above the GS-05 grade level must have served at least one year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade (or equivalent) in the normal line of progression for the position you are applying to. Advancement to positions up to GS-05 is permitted if the position to be filled is no more than two grades above the lowest grade held within the preceding 52 weeks.
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Time After Competitive Appointment: By the closing date (or if this is an open continuous announcement, by the cut-off date) specified in this job announcement, current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after the competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where applied to and was appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens".

Note: This job is open to Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL); Federal employees who meet the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee; Internal to an agency; Current federal employees of this agency; Clarification from the agency; Open to IRS Career/Career-Conditional, Treasury/IRS CTAP, & IRS RPP employees.

Deadline: 03/25/2024.

Additional info

Announcement number 23-11893134M-WIB-0987-12T13. Control number 715373500. Apply online. No emails. Visit the website for more details.

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