Lawyer in Bristol

Location: Bristol; London Borough of Croydon; City of Westminster; Leeds; Salford; London Borough of Newham

Salary: 47,047 - 75,111 per year

Employment: Flexible

Category: Lawyer

Employer: HM Revenue and Customs

Job summary

Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it’s really like to work at HMRC. At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve. We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you.

HMRC Legal Group gives legal advice on issues arising from HMRC’s work and conducts HMRC’s litigation. Our work impacts the lives of millions, as we help to collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services and provide targeted financial support to families and individuals. We have around 1800 people including lawyers, tax professionals, advocates, paralegals and administrators. Our strength is in our diverse people and the inclusive working culture that brings us together.

We work in supportive, specialist teams, that handle a broad range of different areas of law, including tax law, commercial law, insolvency law, information law and criminal law, employer’s liability for personal injury, focusing on either policy and operational advisory work or litigation. All our work has a strong public law element running through it, e.g. human rights, administrative law, freedom of information.

Why HMRC?

Things at HMRC probably don’t work the way you’d think. Tired of constant 60-hour plus weeks and the corporate grind? Would you like to work on complex legal issues that make a positive difference to the nation’s finances? If you’re nodding your head reading this, you’ve come to the right place. We offer hybrid working, with 60% average office attendance (and court time is counted as office hours), actual flexitime and genuine work-life balance alongside fascinating technical work.

Job description

Advisory Lawyers

Our advisory lawyers give advice on the interpretation and application of legislation. This includes advising HMRC and Treasury ministers on a wide variety of taxes, including business tax, personal tax, customs, excise, environmental taxes and VAT law. We also advise on other issues, such as welfare, insolvency, information law and international law and treaties. Our advice encompasses areas of public and administrative law.

Litigation Lawyers

Our litigation lawyers conduct litigation across the full range of HMRC work. We litigate some of the most challenging and important high value, complex Government litigation. These include big money tax cases and cases ranging from resisting judicial review challenges to litigating civil cases against those who benefit from the proceeds of crime. Our cases will often involve novel and challenging points of law and contribute to developing the interpretation of the law.

Who are we looking for?

We are recruiting qualified lawyers, and we would like you to apply whatever level of experience you have. We have vacancies for lawyers in both our advisory and litigation work. Although you do not need to have any existing knowledge of our work or tax experience, as part of the application process you will be required to consider public law, which is at the heart of everything we do. Strong intellectual and analytical skills are important for our lawyers. We will give you training and support so you can continue to develop your existing knowledge and expertise together with developing specific expertise in our work.

Essential Criteria

• You need to fulfil the person specification, comprising the academic criteria and professional qualifications including either qualification as a Solicitor or Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive in England and Wales.
• If you are an eligible foreign qualified lawyer (with at least 2 years legal experience whether pre or post qualification), you will need to become qualified in England and Wales within 2 years of starting employment with HMRC.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of 47,047, HM Revenue and Customs contributes 13,629 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

How to Apply

Please use the provided link to apply. There will be a webinar that will provide additional information, including an opportunity to meet existing HMRC lawyers and ask questions.