Tax Lawyer (4-5 PQE) - Disputes/Controversy

Arnold Bloch Leibler; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training program

Gym membership

In-house café

Prime CBD location

Free wills/estate planning advice

Discounted health insurance

Job summary

Arnold Bloch Leibler is seeking an experienced tax lawyer (4-5 years PQE) to join its Taxation Practice in Sydney. You will handle a broad range of taxation matters, with emphasis on ATO audits, reviews and disputes, and provide commercial tax advice on complex transactions.

You will work autonomously, collaborate with partners and clients, and contribute to a collegial, high-performing team. Ideally you bring a commercial mindset, strong interpersonal skills, and a demonstrated ability to

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with 4-5 years PQE in taxation.
• Experience handling ATO audits, reviews and tax disputes.
• Strong commercial mindset and autonomy in handling matters.

Responsibilities

• Take carriage of taxation matters with autonomy.
• Interact with clients, partners, and tax team.
• Provide commercial tax advice on complex transactions.

Skills

Taxation law

ATO audits

Tax disputes

Interpersonal skills

Client relationship management

Job description

Firm background

Arnold Bloch Leibler is a premium Australian commercial law firm with offices in Melbourne and Sydney. Clients turn to ABL for advice on their most important transactions, disputes and commercial decisions.

Firm background

Arnold Bloch Leibler is a premium Australian commercial law firm with offices in Melbourne and Sydney. Clients turn to ABL for advice on their most important transactions, disputes and commercial decisions.

The firm is particularly known for its work with large private and founder-led businesses, high-net-worth individuals and family offices, entrepreneurial ASX-listed companies, private capital investors, and international businesses with interests in Australia.

ABL provides strategic, commercially focused advice that takes account of legal, reputational and stakeholder considerations. The firm is also distinguished by its longstanding public interest law practice and decades of work alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and organisations.

The Taxation Practice

Arnold Bloch Leibler is renowned within the Australian business, legal and accounting communities as being the 'go-to' taxation law practice for corporate leaders, international corporations, entrepreneurs, wealthy private clients and senior executives seeking tax advice. Recently the ABL Tax team was recognised by Best Lawyers as the 2027 ‘Law Firm of the Year’ for tax law and successfully represented the taxpayer in the recent High Court matter of CoT v Bendel.

We advise our clients on significant taxation audits and disputes and provide commercial tax advice on complex transactions for public and private groups. Our tax lawyers have formidable taxation knowledge and an unrivalled reputation for vigorously negotiating with the highest-ranking officials from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). Our lawyers are expected to have a commercial mindset and advise across a diverse range of income tax and indirect taxation matters, working closely with all the other ABL practice groups.

The Role

An outstanding opportunity exists for an experienced lawyer (circa 4-5 years PQE) to join our preeminent, growing and dynamic tax practice.

You will have an exceptional legal mind, as well as commercial and strategic nous. You will be challenged and provided with the opportunity to take carriage of matters with autonomy.

More specifically you will have:

• a passion for practising taxation law;
• proven experience working on a broad range of taxation matters with a focus on ATO audits, reviews and tax disputes;
• the ability to identify key issues and key evidential matters in a legal matter;
• an appreciation for tax issues associated with ultra-high-net-wealth individuals and private groups;
• strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively with partners, other lawyers, clients, the ATO, counsel and other internal Arnold Bloch Leibler departments;
• the ability to work as a productive member of a team; and
• the ability to interact with clients confidently and build effective working relationships.

Staff benefits

The salary package offered for this position is competitive and includes a range of benefits, including:

• on-going training through the firm's professional development program;
• a fully subsidised corporate gym membership and wellness program;
• in-house fully subsidised café;
• prime CBD location;
• free legal advice for wills, estate planning and conveyancing; and
• discounted corporate health insurance through a leading Australian health fund.