State Tax Attorney Editor – Product/Tax Editorial State Tax Attorney Editor – Product/Tax Editorial
Job Description
State Tax Attorney Editor – Product/Tax Editorial
Role Summary
Want to use your State Tax expertise and writing skills to create valuable tax research content and tools for the award-winning Thomson Reuters Checkpoint tax research platform?
We have an open State Tax Attorney Editor role on our Product/Tax Editorial team located in Dallas TX, Ann Arbor MI, Minneapolis MN or New York, NY. The role of State Tax Attorney Editor relies on previous state and local tax (SALT) practitioner experience to provide standard state tax know-how resources to support the development and maintenance of information in all media and ensure that published information contains and delivers premium content to tax professionals.
About The Role
In this opportunity as State Tax Attorney Editor, you will:
Act independently to analyze new state and local tax legislation, agency regulations, judicial decisions, and other official materials and pronouncements on state corporate and personal income taxes, sales and use taxes, franchise taxes, property taxes, and various other taxes.
Create original know-how content and update state and local tax resources
With limited guidance, use strong drafting and editing skills to write confidently and accurately about state tax to inform and guide customers.
Report state tax developments on daily deadlines.
Apply state tax knowledge to answer a variety of questions about our content and tax practice through the customer inquiry service.
Write and edit content for thought leadership.
Provide expertise and insight in a variety of business supporting functions including training AI to understand complex areas of tax and accounting specialties.
Note: A writing test will be required
About You
You’re a fit for the role of State Tax Attorney Editor, if you:
Are an experienced professional with in-depth knowledge of state tax and at least 3+ years of practical experience in state and local tax issues—i.e., law firm or accounting firm experience.
Have expertise and experience to add sophisticated editorial insight and practical guidance.
Can write clearly and effectively about tax and related topics and to produce useful, publishable material under deadline pressure.
Possess excellent writing and editing skills, including an ability to translate complex tax issues into concise, business English.
Can anticipate and interpret customer needs to identify solutions.
Are enthusiastic about state tax and about working as part of a team of editors who take pride in providing premium state and local tax content to our subscribers.
Are a J.D. (L.LM preferred) or CPA.
What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following metro locations: Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $81,600 - $151,600. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following states: CA, CO, CT, IL, NV, TX, WA and/or remote. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $74,200 - $137,800. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following states: KS, MI, MN, NY, VA. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $70,500 - $130,900. The base compensation range in other locations may vary. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.
Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
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We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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