Tax Consultant | $70/hr Remote

Crossing Hurdles; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Crossing Hurdles seeks a U.S. based Accountant for a remote contract role. The position offers flexible hours (10-40 hrs/week) and an hourly compensation of $65-$70. You will read and interpret sales and use tax statutes, draft rubrics, and provide structured feedback in a digital review platform.

Ideal candidates have experience with state and local tax statutes, strong written communication, and meticulous attention to edge cases and exceptions within tax law.

Qualifications

• Experience with sales and use tax or broader state and local tax statutory experience preferred.
• Proven ability to read and interpret tax statutes and regulations.
• Comfort working with legal logic: conditions, thresholds, AND/OR structures, exceptions, and defined terms.
• Strong written communication with a focus on precision.
• High attention to detail, especially around 'except for' clauses and edge cases.
• Comfort providing structured feedback through a digital review interface.

Responsibilities

• Read and interpret sales and use tax statutes and regulations across US state jurisdictions.
• Author rubrics by breaking a section of law into a checklist of discrete requirements.
• Assign severity to each requirement based on statutory weight.
• Review AI's formal translation of a statute and score it pass/fail against your rubric.
• Write clear, self-contained test scenarios for failed criteria.
• Identify and flag discrepancies, statutory exceptions, and genuine ambiguities in the law.
• Work within a digital review platform, submitting structured written evaluations.

Skills

Sales and use tax knowledge

Tax statutes interpretation

Legal logic reasoning

Attention to detail

Structured communication

Tools

Digital review platform

Job description

• Read and interpret sales and use tax statutes and regulations across US state jurisdictions.
• Author rubrics by breaking a section of law into a checklist of discrete requirements.
• Assign severity to each requirement based on statutory weight.
• Review AI's formal translation of a statute and score it pass/fail against your rubric.
• Write clear, self-contained test scenarios for failed criteria.
• Identify and flag discrepancies, statutory exceptions, and genuine ambiguities in the law.
• Work within a digital review platform, submitting structured written evaluations.

Position:

U.S based Accountant

Type:

Contract

Compensation:

$65 - $70/hour

Location:

Remote

Commitment:

10-40 hrs/week

Role Responsibilities

• Read and interpret sales and use tax statutes and regulations across US state jurisdictions.
• Author rubrics by breaking a section of law into a checklist of discrete requirements.
• Assign severity to each requirement based on statutory weight.
• Review AI's formal translation of a statute and score it pass/fail against your rubric.
• Write clear, self-contained test scenarios for failed criteria.
• Identify and flag discrepancies, statutory exceptions, and genuine ambiguities in the law.
• Work within a digital review platform, submitting structured written evaluations.

Requirements

• Sales and use tax or broader state and local tax statutory experience strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to read and interpret tax statutes and regulations.
• Comfort working with legal logic: conditions, thresholds, AND/OR structures, exceptions, and defined terms.
• Strong written communication with a focus on precision.
• High attention to detail, especially around 'except for' clauses and edge cases.
• Comfort providing structured feedback through a digital review interface.