Corporate Tax Expert
Listed pay: $100 / hr
What the posting lists, in US dollars an hour, before anything Mercor deducts.
55 openings on this one listing.
How to apply- Platform
- Mercor
- Terms
- Contract, part-time
- Location
- United States
- Posted
- · 1 month ago
- Status
- Open at the last check
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What happens after you click
- The link opens this role on Mercor. Sign up and apply from there.
- Upload a resume, complete the assessments the role asks for and verify your work authorisation.
- An AI interview of about 20 minutes. Mercor says it usually takes 2 to 4 weeks to hear back.
- If Mercor hires you, you are paid weekly, on the Wednesday after each work week, via Stripe. Mercor says first payouts are held for 7 days.
- The work is paid by the hour, at the $100 this posting lists.
- Remote, but this posting limits it to United States.
What the work is
About the work We're building a high-quality library of corporate tax work products. You'll complete self-contained tax exercises from mock files (trial balances, intercompany agreements, deal documents) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric.
What you'll do
Build quarterly and annual income tax provisions under ASC 740 with current and deferred calculations and rate reconciliation.
Prepare returns and supporting workpapers across federal, state apportionment and international regimes, and forecast cash taxes by jurisdiction.
Produce technical computations and studies: GILTI, FDII, BEAT, Pillar Two, 163(j) limitation, and net operating loss and attribute analysis.
Build transfer pricing master file and local file documentation with intercompany agreement and policy review.
Work transaction tax: diligence of exposures and attributes, structuring memos, and documented tax positions including FIN 48 reserves.
You're a fit if you have
4+ years in corporate income tax, in-house or Big 4.
Depth in at least one of: provision and compliance, international and transfer pricing, or M&A tax.
Nice to have
- CPA; JD or LLM in Taxation; EA; CTA. Tax equity and HLBV modeling experience.
Assessment An ASC 740 provision from a mock trial balance; a transfer pricing benchmarking memo; a deal tax structuring recommendation.
Note: this is corporate income tax. Individual return preparation, payroll tax, and sales-tax-only backgrounds are out of scope.
From the Mercor listing.