taxwire - Indirect Tax Researcher
Requirements
• You’re a tax expert who thinks in systems. You understand how tax conclusions should be represented, tested, maintained, and applied at scale. • You’re deeply technical. You’re comfortable working with structured data, decision trees, schemas, APIs, and product logic, and can communicate clearly with tax professionals and engineers. • You’re AI-native and rigorous. You use new tools aggressively while verifying every conclusion against the underlying authority. • You’re a finisher. You can take an ambiguous tax question from primary-source research through a clear conclusion and into production-ready logic. • You have exceptional attention to detail. Effective dates, jurisdictional differences, exceptions, definitions, and source quality matter because they directly affect our customers. • 5+ years of indirect-tax experience, with deep knowledge of US sales and use tax and VAT. • Significant experience researching and interpreting US and international primary tax authority. • The ability to translate complex sales tax and VAT conclusions into clear, structured, and testable requirements. • Comfort working with structured data, spreadsheets, tax research platforms, and technical systems. • Strong written communication and documentation skills. • Hands-on interest in using AI tools to improve tax research and content development. • Experience at a tax technology company, tax content provider, Big Four firm, SALT practice, or indirect-tax advisory firm. • Experience researching VAT for digital services, SaaS, e-commerce, or cross-border transactions. • Familiarity with EU VAT directives and country-specific VAT guidance. • Experience working with tax engines, product taxability classifications, rates, sourcing rules, place-of-supply rules, or tax content. • Familiarity with SQL, Python, APIs, data models, or rule-based systems. • Experience building or reviewing AI-assisted tax research workflows. • CPA, CMI, JD, LLM, MST, or another relevant tax credential. Helpful, but not required.
Responsibilities
• RESEARCH INDIRECT-TAX LAW • Research sales and use tax laws across US jurisdictions and VAT laws across global markets. • Analyze taxability, sourcing, place of supply, nexus, registration thresholds, exemptions, rates, filing requirements, and other indirect-tax questions. • Interpret statutes, regulations, administrative guidance, rulings, forms, EU directives, and other primary authority. • Monitor US and international legislative and regulatory changes that could affect Taxwire’s customers or product. • TURN RESEARCH INTO PRODUCT LOGIC • Translate sales tax and VAT law into structured rules, decision trees, product categories, and testable requirements. • Document each conclusion with clear reasoning, source authority, effective dates, and known limitations. • Work with Product and Engineering to turn complex tax rules into reliable product behavior. • Build test cases covering common scenarios, edge cases, exceptions, and conflicting authority. • BUILD AI-NATIVE RESEARCH WORKFLOWS • Use AI agents and research tools to find authority, compare jurisdictions, extract changes, and draft structured analysis. • Design workflows that make research faster without sacrificing accuracy or traceability. • Evaluate AI-generated conclusions, identify unsupported claims, and improve the systems that produced them. • Help automate recurring research, change monitoring, classification, and quality-assurance work. • OWN ACCURACY AND QUALITY • Review sales tax and VAT content, classifications, and product logic before they reach customers. • Investigate conflicting sources and make clear, defensible judgment calls. • Respond to difficult sales tax and VAT questions surfaced by customers, Tax Operations, Product, or Engineering. • Maintain an audit trail so we can explain what our system concluded and why. • BUILD THE RESEARCH FUNCTION • Help define Taxwire’s tax ontology, research standards, source hierarchy, and review process. • Create reusable templates, playbooks, quality controls, and documentation. • Identify gaps in our US and global tax coverage and prioritize research based on customer and product impact. • Turn one-off questions into durable knowledge that makes the entire system smarter.
Benefits
• You want to help build the source of truth behind a global indirect-tax platform. • You want your research to become a product, not disappear into a memo. • You want to push how AI changes the way high-quality tax research gets done. • You’ll work with tax experts, engineers, and product builders who care deeply about getting it right. • We have high standards, move quickly, and genuinely give a fuck about each other. • Competitive salary, meaningful equity, company-covered benefits, and PTO. • You only want advisory work, client memos, or high-level tax strategy. • You don’t enjoy translating legal nuance into structured rules and data. • You want AI to produce the answer for you, or you refuse to use it at all. • You need a mature research system and established playbook before you can execute. • Digging through messy authority, conflicting guidance, and edge cases sounds miserable to you. • Meaningful equity • Paid time off
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